The video has gone viral, with more than two million people having watched a mouse takes bites out of a pricey slab of veal in the butcher’s case at the Whole Foods in Columbus Circle. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.
I am surprised that the Health Department did not shut the whole supermarket down. Well this is supposedly a wealthy business selling fancy quality foods, they must have favored them. Had this been a family owned supermarket in lower income neigborhoods, they would have just permanently closed the whole store down immediately and NYPD would have placed a To Vacate sign on the doors.
@@tientrinh943 I try to respect everyone's opinions but when someone talks as their opinion is facts without any proof it's frustrating. I've seen the opposite in the hood I grew up in. Our taco shops were gettho, rats and cockroaches but never was shut down. I understand this is anecdotal evidence. That's why I would like to see data and studies before I make my claim. Have a great Memorial Day Brother.
It's NY but the Columbus Circle Whole Foods has had a rodent problem for years for a number of reasons: it's in the basement of the Time Warner Center, right next to various subway lines as the lady said and is directly across from the park where mice have dens.
@Angelwing Nipple Depends on what side of picture your drawn on. If someone already owns two beach houses should it be moral to push low income people out so they can own three beach houses?
@@mstwelvedeadlycyns they love peanut butter, meat, grains, nuts, dry cat food, bread, bird seed and a whole lot of other stuff. If you get one in your house and are using a snap trap use peanut butter as bait on the trap and you'll usually get him. Rats and mice will eat just about anything when they're hungry. I use to work in a canning factory where we would can green beans and spinach, the string beans and spinach would come in huge trucks that carried them from the fields to the factory. The trucks would dump those on conveyor belt that brought the beans and spinach into the plant. Workers would grade them and on alot of occasions we would here workers holler out mouse, rat or snake! We had long poles with a large metal curved hook on the end and some of us who were courageous enough would stand on stools over the belt and move the hook through the beans or spinach trying to find the snake, mouse, rat or whatever other critter workers were hollering about before they went through the shredder! We would use the hook because we never knew what kind of snake was coming through and rats & mice do bite! There is all kinds of stuff in your pre-packaged foods, just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not in there!
Whole Foods management should take a trip to Japan and see how their supermarkets and food services industry is managed. It's meticulously clean and organized and their food handling standards are strict AF.
True. But the fact that they have a problem with rodents is not necessarily an indication that they're unclean. Mice and rats explore; and if they find what they're looking for, they come back.
Ha! I am an overnight worker and walking around th city at night I have to tell you seeing mice in a display case is not uncommon. I see it all the time. What's scary is that most companies probably don't throw out the merchandise....
If there's one there's tons running around back there, that's nasty. Just the fact that it came out like that means there's a serious infestation. Disgusting. They should shut that whole store down.
Rats and mice are so common in areas like this. Most times we just do not see them because they try and avoid people. So, you should stay away from any stores that have or store food in any way shape or form. Mice and rats can get in as easy as going into an establishment as you or someone else walks into the door.
Ive seen rats, lots of them eating chocolate at a very well known candy store on 5th avenue. That was at night. It was disgusting! I had to call NYC sanitation to solve the problem.
It's unbelievable that rats can even chew through aluminum doors, cinder blocks, plaster, and live wires. It might take them a while, but they'll chew their way in or out of hard surfaces.
Visited NYC once, and baffles me why anyone chooses to live there. City is ridiculously expensive and smells of piss and filth everywhere! Not to mention the fine, upstanding citizenry! Polite and welcoming like nowhere else in the world!
Lived in nyc my whole life can’t stand it anymore. Saving some money to buy a home in Florida seriously. This city has gone from bad to worse to shitty year by year. Can’t stand the crime, filth, politicians, the amount people and the laws. Just want some space for my family without selling an arm and a leg.
That mouse is an up-and-coming food critic. It was taste testing the Veal, to let the public know if it was actually worth buying. Ben Gnawlings is his name. 🥩🐀
All that money Whole Foods charging ppl & they can’t get a top rank pest control company to handle their pest problems especially in nyc especially in Manhattan they’re slacking!!!
Disgusting....that's another problem ...folks .. particularly entitled White Folks who feel their dogs and other pets BELONG in food stores or restaurants . smfh
Funny. I was at this very same Whole Foods a few years ago and was very impressed at the layout. I took out my 📱phone and began taking pictures of the beautiful display. Several employees told me to put my phone away and that I was subject to be thrown out of the Whole Foods. Not wanting to cause an issue, I complied. Now I think I see 👀 why they were so anal about me doing what all tourist do in NYC. Memorialize their trip.
I've heard soooooo many stories about the things that go on at whole foods that you wouldn't believe. From my sister in law who used to work in the seafood dept. On 96th. Yikes.
Enough of the food safety crap? What about all of the customers who purchased meat from that case that day? Did whole foods notify them? I don't think so!
Rats and mice are probably doing the same thing at your favorite local grocery store. I used to work at Target and you don't want to know what I saw in the backroom.
I never been to that whole foods. Well I was gonna go, oh hell no. I am a germ phobe, omg. I don't care it they inspected or cleaned or threw out the meat. Never will I even enter that place at all.
I was just there… Ha people (3 Karen’s) were complaining about the line not moving fast enough, 😹 Wonder what they are gonna do now once they learn about this news…
It's not surprising.... after sunset just go to Columbus circle's garbage cans by the water fountain. You will see how many rats and mice crawling around like i saw in one of the crazy rat movies... maybe we should change the name of colombus circle to rats circle.. 🤣🤣🤣
Doesn't surprise me this happened tbh. I worked for this company for a year and a half, shady things like this happen all the time, it just doesn't usually meet the public eye like this
Calls the Manager, Excuse me, Actually my English it's no very good, but do you know Tom and Jerry, " yes, the cartoon" Yeah...Jerry is here in the fridge. 😂😂😂
So, what's new, it's New York. She was lucky it wasn't a sewer rat🤣🤣. As a microbiologist I am aware of all this, this is why you cook your food until it's burnt🤣🤣
I can't believe the girl said I know its NY but its still not okay... a mouse coming out like that especially in a display case is a clear sign of a rodent problem so it is most of all not OK.
There is environmental insect and rodent debris mixed in all agriculture products, for example, what do you think is running around on coco beans used to make chocolate.
they tried to interview the mouse but it was busy eating .........that be nasty !!!..... and the crazy thing is the mouse looked at home so you know its not the first time ewww 😅😆😝
I worked for Whole Foods and every store I worked at had a mouse problem that they never gave a shit about. They don’t let their employees have time to ever clean.
If you see one mouse, then there are really a hundred more underneath. They need to install some ultrasonic pest repellers. Based on what I've read, they do have a short term affect. I imagine the key is to not use them all year long so you don't give pests a chance to 'adapt' to the waves.
