obviously we sprayed and wiped up as many as we could and stopped making cold brew, but we couldn’t pry off the tray to get rid of the whole colony, and we didn’t know how many had escaped beyond our reach already
apparently stores don’t “normally shut down because of this” but i felt absolutely disgusted trying to go on with the day as normal...

Wait WHAT my store has this same kind of tray under our cold brew tap. I’m bout to rip off the counter idc idc idc that’s so nasty

“can we go home?” 😭😭😭

✨Protein✨

Was this reported to SM? SM should have called ecosure to get a treatment done. No we wouldn’t close for this, these are baby flies. Any store that has had fruit flies has had maggots crawling around in it.

Flies are generally considered worse from a food safety standpoint. Maggots are born from fly eggs born on decomposing organic material (meat, even coffee grounds). Eggs hatch to make maggots which stay in place on that material until they become flies. Flies spread disease and bacteria from surface to surface they land on, maggots don’t.

This area should have been throughly cleaned with restroom cleaner (has bleach to kill eggs) and ecosure should have been called to treat the area to avoid a fly problem (very hard to get rid of). It also sounds like this tray design should probably be brought to corporate’s attention so they’re aware of potential water build up which provides an ideal fly breeding ground.

Hold up which cold brew tray? I want to check my store now during my walk tomorrow😭

This happened at my store too! Two fumigations later and we’re still seeing fruit flies 😮

We have rats. Named em Remi. 🤷🏾‍♀️ And yes, Remi is the general name we've given to them all since we know there's more than one. They've been with us since before Thanksgiving (that's right, thanksgiving) and it took Target management til late January/early February to actually call an exterminator. They've caught one but the rest continue to stay in the shadows tearing shit up in our front area. The damn things are smart too. They've figured out how to get the food off the glue traps without actually falling on them.

one time my store had literal MICE living under the cabinets and instead of closing the store, we had to work for 3 days while we could hear the mice getting caught and wiggling around on glue traps. when customers asked us what was going on we had to lie. i wanted to quit so bad that week.

You need to call ethics and compliance or 1 800 sbux.

One time all of our drains on the floor clogged up and we were literally walking around in water and we still didnt close the store

My store has a fungus problem under two of our sinks. They like to leak within the cabinets underneath them, and they've been mostly fixed but recently I have been able to smell it again.

Such happiness we partners get to experience 🙃

can i see a pic of the tray so i can tell our store manager to check!

Wtf!?!?!!!!!

i happened to remember about this post during close so i decided to try and check and dear fucking god there were so many maggots both dead and alive and so much sludge. i took pics to show my SM but i'm so disgusted.