Shop Rite Violates Best Practices Break Area Always a Disgrace

Shop Rite managed wrong. Break Area and grounds always a disgrace.

Since living in Parsippany and using the Shop Rite enterprise on occasions could not help but to notice the conditions present on the premises’, that one would call lax’s in good house keeping, sanitation practices and general apathy by management and employees alike.

Along the side of the building where personal household orders are processed and delivered is a break area. This area is constantly littered with plastic bags and sales flyers from the store. Two trash receptacles are present both are usually filled with mix trash. Despite a NJ Mandatory recycle law being in effect since April 1987, no recycle container is present and employees simply dump their material mixed into the containers. As the employees; including supervisors sit in the open air at their picnic table the wind blows the material into the open spaces, and a lot of it winds up on the dead end near Alba Place. And further up the street toward Vale Road.

Having tried to bring this situation to the notice of Shop Rite Management on several occasions, it must be concluded that their policies in property management are all centered inside the store.

Custodial duties and responsibilities are minimal or non-existent in the duties and responsibilities concerning the outside spaces, or at the very least this commonly shared area of break time. Here we see the typical detachment from reality not only of the open space and community, but also of the basic principals that should be in place for any corporate franchise in anyone’s community. When property is zoned for a purpose or uses a usufruct relation takes place, to take care of, to maintain or repair at ones expense.

When property such as a super market, or any large Home Depot, or Target for example does not honor these responsibilities, and allows a condition to manifest by ignoring or promoting by ignoring an accumulative effect of litter/trash extending into common spaces, a violation of community by big business is given free reign.

What it take to keep the break area and Truck Bays clean on a regular basis? Not much.

The Food and packaging industry is responsible for most of our plastic wastes. In fact plastic products have increased not decreased. Unfortunately human disciplines and material management in sanitation has not advanced, and plastic waste is a special problem with their types and value in the recycle market. The mass production of all these plastics stands as a great example of free market abuse and lack of general caring about the overall result of the mass phenomena let loose. We are a consumer society in a material world, however we lack the discipline or common sense to see where this has taken us.

It would be a small step for Parsippany Shop Rite and all large stores to better manage their properties, and in addition provide recycle material separation stations for their customers and employees. Shop Rite Get your Act together there is another world outside the store; the real world of community, and nature. Even for skeptics who doubt the reality of climate change; who can deny the change that has occurred with the abundant presence of trash, litter upon our American Landscapes? That is a change of accumulative effects of lax conscience disciplines and civic virtue practiced by corporations, individuals and public officials. We have accepted these conditions as the norm. Why? We have become a nation of laxer in the realms of life. Our America is a mess…Shop Rite Management needs to be managed. Clean up your spaces; and by the way there can be no lax interpretation of the law; recycle is mandatory and shop rite, and other corporate enterprises, are breaking the law by ignoring it. This effects all of us. In fact Morris County in general is very lax in mandatory recycling laws and sanitation practices.