Is a big grocery store having a dead rat inside its store or restaurant having a mice and roaches a dealbreaker for you to shop or eat there?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

The reality is food in the open attracts roaches, bugs and mice and its literally impossible to keep a mice or rat from sneaking in the stores since rats just need a super tiny crack in the walls and it's enough for the them to sneak inside. https://news.yahoo.com/old-food-moldy-food-dead-173816218.html

Deal breaker. Won't ever eat or shop there.

Not a deal breaker, but can't be excessive.

Not sure.

Other.

[KelleyNice]

All grocery stores will take the necessary action to reduce or eliminate pests. Even if they have a few, rats, mice, and roaches hide so likely, I never see any. When I go outside in the summer, especially at night, I might get mosquitoes bites but that doesn't prevent me from going outside.

[AviatorTom]

It's not a deal-breaker so long as it's an isolated incident and the store/restaurant takes appropriate precautions to reduce the probability of future occurrences. Food attracts vermin and it is very difficult to completely eliminate them.

What would be a deal breaker is if a restaurant failed repeated health inspections.

[MrHopper]

I would be surprised if you find ANY store that doesn't have rats or mice some where, i worked at a few of the biggest supermarkets in my country with huge reputations and there are always rats and mice around out the back

[Smashingdoozy]

It's definitely something that happens but there are steps to take to prevent bugs and rodents.

[Texaskid1]

I am picky about that. I have stopped eating at certain places because I have seen insects in the food. The place has to be clean as can be.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

In the food is a big deal breaker. 😭

[Texaskid1]

I once saw a big , fat dead roach on the food at a Chinese buffet. I never went to that place again.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

That's expected. Chinese are known to be gross and dirty.

[WhiteSteve]

I worked in the grocery retail business for almost ten years. From little neighborhood bodegas to large chain supermarkets, in the city, in the suburbs, in the country…all of them had rodent problems.

[Guy13]

I know they are there, however, I do not need to see it. And I do not need to be chewing on a fried RAT thinking it is a drumstick.-I get it if in Phnom Penh but not here

[Wsx2wsx2ws]

I look at the health board rating posted in the restaurant. They do a good job of letting customers know how well the kitchen is being kept.

[Snsl153]

Definitely a deal-breaker! I don't want to catch the plague.

[ObscuredBeyond]

Impossible to eliminate every pest. But if it's excessive, that's a deal breaker.

[BillyBalls]

It is common that grocery stores import roaches when they receive paltes of groceries.

Also, mice when they get deliveries of produce.

It's just a part of life.

[007kingifrit]

maybe a temporary deal breaker but every business has a bad day

[Anonymous]

A bird flew into our food 4 less. It's not the store fault. They got it out