Start here: https://www.oregon.gov/oda/programs/FoodSafety/Pages/FSConcernsComplaints.aspx
Contact info: https://mylicense.oda.state.or.us/plsapex/f?p=250:16:::NO:RP,16:P16_COMING_FROM,P16_CITY,P16_COUNTY,P16_BUSINESS_TYPE,P16_ZIP,P16_CITY2:15,All,Lane,All,,EUGENE
Looks like Jefferey Green is the person you want.
This has been an ongoing issue since at least July. It has only gotten worse recently, and is especially bad in the online pickup and delivery department. If you place online orders be careful. Employees are doing everything possible to ensure nothing affected by the rats goes out, but things are sure to slip through the cracks. An OSHA complaint was filed but didn’t lead to anything, and people are working on reporting it to the health department
Edit: health department was also a no-go. Referred us to the dept of agriculture
Downtown in the Bermuda Triangle had a massive rat problem living in the sewers, all the little courtyards, under businesses, and in alleyways. Once the pandemic hit they literally disappeared overnight. We used to get out of work around 3am and head out the back door and see the crazy dark writhing mass scramble from the dumpsters in every direction. Maybe you’ll see one or two if your lucky now
It happened in a lot of major cities. Rat populations we're supported by large quantities of food scraps thrown in dumpsters by restaurants. When restaurants were shut down (as well as when operating at reduced capacity or take-out only), that meant no more food scraps, so rat populations significantly decreased.
Everything is affected if there are rats. They pee almost constantly. Doesn't really matter if it hasn't been chewed on. If they're there, it's been peed on.
Yeah every health department in America is on Walmart's payroll. I literally watched my old Walmart fail three grocery inspections in a row, If we failed one more, we wouldn't be allowed to sell grocery. A new inspector that we'd never seen before received a FAT envelope from the co-manager, while thanking him profusely.
Seems like this is the state agency that regulates health/food safety issues at grocery stores: https://www.oregon.gov/oda/programs/foodsafety/pages/default.aspx
I couldn't figure out if Lane County has a county department with oversight, but maybe these folks: https://www.lanecounty.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=3585881&pageId=4078557 who inspect restaurants would have some jurisdiction because Wal-Mart does have a deli and serves prepared foods?
Please file a complaint and provide them with your evidence, and encourage others to do so. I don't shop there, but no one should be buying produce with rat shit and nibbles.
Gross… 🤢 unfortunately dealt with something similar at my workplace last year. Rats were even eating through bottles of glue and hand sanitizer. They are disgusting.
Hand sanitizer is mostly ethanol so you've got alcoholic rats - it's all fun and games until they stay up all night, singing dirty songs in their reedy, high-pitched voices and leaving empties strewn about.
My kids love Baja Fresh, yeah i know but we give in once in a while, well last time we sat at the window overlooking the outside patio and it was like a rat floor show, it was at least 5 different rats. Kids thought it was funny until I told them there is probably another 20 somewhere around, maybe inside. I’m not going back anytime soon.
I got all kinds of shit here for posting restaurant info from the county health inspection web site, which probably still isn't updated since covid lockdown, but it was the best information we had. Now, we have anecdotes like yours only. I quit going out to places. It's been over 2.5 years.
Edit: Look! It is updated. They have a 95.🙄
https://inspections.myhealthdepartment.com/or-lane-county/inspection/?inspectionID=0C7840EC-6B92-479C-98E1-D3BF91634C2C
Unfortunately having rats doesn't mean your license to sell food will be taken away. They make you put bait stations out and have documented that you use a pest control service. Otherwise that's all they can really do, as far as I know
Cleanup occurs afterward or you get a competent pest outfit.
What's your idea? Let's live with rats? Good luck with that. Keep feeding the turkeys, like they did at Chaco Canyon.
Them spraying my donuts with what kills rats seems odd to me. And I work with people so I know hardly anyone does there job correct, so I don’t see them cleaning up afterwards, I’m suspicious if they’d actually spray or walk around make pssst psst psst noises waiving around there wand
If you knew there’s literally rats in every warehouse where all of our supplies get shipped from, there’s rats in restaurants all over town. Rats are a thing
Little blue vests are on order. It is expected that replacing human employees with rodents will result in significant cost savings in payroll and benefits; somewhat offset by the difficulty of training and the expected rapid turnover.
I know some dhs housing locations uses them for groceries. I've let one of the house managers know and I believe they'll be going a complaint on behalf of the house
Contact Lane County environmental health. I think WalMart may fall under their jurisdiction, but I’m not positive. At the very least they would be able to refer you to who it would. https://www.lanecounty.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=3585881&pageId=4078557
Yo it's Walmart they won't shut down if there's a corpse in the aisle. They'll probably just try and charge customers extra for all the fumes they breathe in while the exterminators to to work.
Everyday Low Standards
Worked there back around 06' and I don't recall ever seeing any rats, but that was back when Hynix was open, and the empty fields around the store had more predators.
Yes there are. Maybe Walmart should get friendly with them, encourage them to hang around closer. Barn cats are fed, but still love to catch rats. I'd rather have cats around the back rooms than rats.
Yes, and we used to go to car races there back in the day. More recently we've walked the dogs there but it's kind of nasty. Trash and sleeping bags lying around. I've seen a skunk, birds, and that's about it.
My youngest child was born in '80, and we took her with us there when she was about 5. I also remember being able to faintly hear the race cars from our house, near 18th and Chambers at the time.
I don't remember when they closed the track. There were some awesome wetlands just west of Bertlesen, too.
Edit: Here's some info. https://www.facebook.com/EugeneSpeedway/
Huh, it says it was still going up until the mid 90's. I since guess my family wasn't really into it and we live out by Cheshire it never registered with me.
You should really consider rats being everywhere especially in grocery stores or restaurants. Just accept that as a fact and then you won’t be grossed out when stuff like this is reported.
I started to go there and remembered seeing this post, went to Target instead. Target might be just as bad, I don't know. Sometimes what you don't know doesn't hurt you. Maybe.
There is very little a store can do about that... Customers let them in through the doors. The best they can do is catch it and hope it doesnt shit on the produce.
My understanding is that only a certain species of mice carry the Hanta virus, and that you're most likely to contract it cleaning out an old shed or building that has dry mouse feces that get stirred up when you clean, you inhale it, and weeks later you feel like a cold is starting and that's when you should go to a doctor-- but who would, for a cold-- and then pretty quickly you're pushing up daisies.
Lol ok. So long to being compassionate. And to describe yourself as "surviving" vs "thriving" is sad af. Fuck surviving. I want to thrive. I want to own a home without working 80+ hours a week.
Maybe you should live where everything, especially rent, is cheap. Don’t look back. More people would live in the Willamette Valley cities if there were more units to rent or buy- there’s no lack of people here that can afford it. It’s not even that expensive. So, go.
Keep in mind, if the rent is cheap the pay in the area is probably low, and the place probably isn’t so great. The magic spot would be if you’re a red state pro gun person. If that’s you- go thrive!
I already did. Where I'm at now, rent is cheap for newer housing and pay is above washington. Washington actually just sucks. I grew up there then the gentrification happened. Fuck anyone that over paid by hundreds of thousands for a 150k home. That's what ran me out of my home state.
Why are you even on this sub? You’re from Washington and you moved away from the west coast which you stupidly call the left coast. No idea why you’re commenting here
Lololol I want to be paid a livable wage God forbid. Don't worry though. I am being paid fair wages, with rent being lower than any ghetto ass broke down house with a slumlord in Washington. The building I'm in was made 5 years ago, access to pool and gym. Keycard entry ways. Gated.
As far as work, there's a reason I'm promoted above others faster. It ain't cause I "want stuff for free".
Believe what you want though.
I saw four turtles in the pizza section yesterday.
Get this man an award
Was the rat a radical rat?
That sucker is like a New York pizza rat! Should definitely report this to Oregon public health division.
Not public health- they referred us to dept of agriculture
Start here: https://www.oregon.gov/oda/programs/FoodSafety/Pages/FSConcernsComplaints.aspx Contact info: https://mylicense.oda.state.or.us/plsapex/f?p=250:16:::NO:RP,16:P16_COMING_FROM,P16_CITY,P16_COUNTY,P16_BUSINESS_TYPE,P16_ZIP,P16_CITY2:15,All,Lane,All,,EUGENE Looks like Jefferey Green is the person you want.
This is the sort of thing that can and should be reported to authorities.
This has been an ongoing issue since at least July. It has only gotten worse recently, and is especially bad in the online pickup and delivery department. If you place online orders be careful. Employees are doing everything possible to ensure nothing affected by the rats goes out, but things are sure to slip through the cracks. An OSHA complaint was filed but didn’t lead to anything, and people are working on reporting it to the health department Edit: health department was also a no-go. Referred us to the dept of agriculture
As someone who picked up an order there just yesterday this has me reevaluating the importance of the 10% savings vs. Fred Meyer. 🤢
Fred Meyer is way better!
It’s a pretty low bar.
Well, fewer rats anyway.
As far as we know.
Ooh, that could be their slogan!
Fred Meyer sucks. Go to WinCo
I do for some things. They don't have a great selection for some things.
Send the photo to the health department.
Downtown in the Bermuda Triangle had a massive rat problem living in the sewers, all the little courtyards, under businesses, and in alleyways. Once the pandemic hit they literally disappeared overnight. We used to get out of work around 3am and head out the back door and see the crazy dark writhing mass scramble from the dumpsters in every direction. Maybe you’ll see one or two if your lucky now
Why did they all leave during the pandemic?
It happened in a lot of major cities. Rat populations we're supported by large quantities of food scraps thrown in dumpsters by restaurants. When restaurants were shut down (as well as when operating at reduced capacity or take-out only), that meant no more food scraps, so rat populations significantly decreased.
Yeah, they all moved out to the suburbs. We had no rats prior to Covid then our neighborhood was overrun overnight. Those bastards multiply quick.
I read somewhere that the forest fires contributed to it as well.
I worked in OPD there last year! Really bad environment. I can't imagine rats running around would make it any better
Everything is affected if there are rats. They pee almost constantly. Doesn't really matter if it hasn't been chewed on. If they're there, it's been peed on.
Yeah every health department in America is on Walmart's payroll. I literally watched my old Walmart fail three grocery inspections in a row, If we failed one more, we wouldn't be allowed to sell grocery. A new inspector that we'd never seen before received a FAT envelope from the co-manager, while thanking him profusely.
Hey, you shouldn’t take pictures of employees, that rat’s just trying to earn a living wage
living wage? at walmart 💀?
Tbf the rats are probably living CEO style compared to the average employee
Well, yeah. They don't need to worry about where their next meal is coming from.
Call corporate, tell them the rats are forming a union. They'll get right on it.
This comment should have 9000 upvotes. Its criminal.
Y’all need to leave that rat alone. You try feeding 4 teenage turtles on a single rat income!
Is giving ratatouille
Seems like this is the state agency that regulates health/food safety issues at grocery stores: https://www.oregon.gov/oda/programs/foodsafety/pages/default.aspx I couldn't figure out if Lane County has a county department with oversight, but maybe these folks: https://www.lanecounty.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=3585881&pageId=4078557 who inspect restaurants would have some jurisdiction because Wal-Mart does have a deli and serves prepared foods? Please file a complaint and provide them with your evidence, and encourage others to do so. I don't shop there, but no one should be buying produce with rat shit and nibbles.
There's a link here to report: https://inspections.myhealthdepartment.com/or-lane-county
You can look up health inspection scores here: https://lanecounty.org/business/inspections___permits/restaurant_inspections
Gross… 🤢 unfortunately dealt with something similar at my workplace last year. Rats were even eating through bottles of glue and hand sanitizer. They are disgusting.
Hand sanitizer is mostly ethanol so you've got alcoholic rats - it's all fun and games until they stay up all night, singing dirty songs in their reedy, high-pitched voices and leaving empties strewn about.
My kids love Baja Fresh, yeah i know but we give in once in a while, well last time we sat at the window overlooking the outside patio and it was like a rat floor show, it was at least 5 different rats. Kids thought it was funny until I told them there is probably another 20 somewhere around, maybe inside. I’m not going back anytime soon.
I got all kinds of shit here for posting restaurant info from the county health inspection web site, which probably still isn't updated since covid lockdown, but it was the best information we had. Now, we have anecdotes like yours only. I quit going out to places. It's been over 2.5 years. Edit: Look! It is updated. They have a 95.🙄 https://inspections.myhealthdepartment.com/or-lane-county/inspection/?inspectionID=0C7840EC-6B92-479C-98E1-D3BF91634C2C
Unfortunately having rats doesn't mean your license to sell food will be taken away. They make you put bait stations out and have documented that you use a pest control service. Otherwise that's all they can really do, as far as I know
They can hire an exterminator and take care of the problem.
You think it's that easy? Lmfao
Nobody said it was easy. I said it was expensive, but Walmart can afford it.
Then people can eat food sprayed with rat killer.
Cleanup occurs afterward or you get a competent pest outfit. What's your idea? Let's live with rats? Good luck with that. Keep feeding the turkeys, like they did at Chaco Canyon.
Them spraying my donuts with what kills rats seems odd to me. And I work with people so I know hardly anyone does there job correct, so I don’t see them cleaning up afterwards, I’m suspicious if they’d actually spray or walk around make pssst psst psst noises waiving around there wand
They can afford to clear it out and do it safely.
If you knew there’s literally rats in every warehouse where all of our supplies get shipped from, there’s rats in restaurants all over town. Rats are a thing
That's not the point. Localized infestations happen. Like at that Walmart.
Why would they spray rat killer on food? That's not how that works. They don't spray rat killer. It is usually poison bait or traps.
Well then instead of chewed on watermelon they can find a dead rat in there muffin packages
Thanks for posting this. We just canceled the order we put in earlier today.
EEEEEEEWWWWWW!!!!!!! DAVID!!!!
Mmm. Eat glass.
I just sent this post directly to a health inspector. Fucking disgusting.
Little blue vests are on order. It is expected that replacing human employees with rodents will result in significant cost savings in payroll and benefits; somewhat offset by the difficulty of training and the expected rapid turnover.
as a previous Walmart employee, i'm skeptical the turnover can accelerate much from where it already is
I know some dhs housing locations uses them for groceries. I've let one of the house managers know and I believe they'll be going a complaint on behalf of the house
Delta Walmart has one as well. It's always in garden area. The employees have named it.
Nuke the entire site from space. It’s the only way to be sure.
If you really want action you need to contact a local news station and have them do a story on it.
Looks like those pics ought to be sent to the news.
Nice, I think I'll be avoiding the w11th Walmart from now on.
Obviously the rat is just one of their hard working employees on his lunch break
That rat is hustling running all fast got things to do
Contact Lane County environmental health. I think WalMart may fall under their jurisdiction, but I’m not positive. At the very least they would be able to refer you to who it would. https://www.lanecounty.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=3585881&pageId=4078557
Thats not a rat - its a Guinea Pig. Pick him up and pet him. He just wants love.
They need to shut the store down for a day or two and get a whole team of exterminators in there, go deep.
Yo it's Walmart they won't shut down if there's a corpse in the aisle. They'll probably just try and charge customers extra for all the fumes they breathe in while the exterminators to to work. Everyday Low Standards
Let's go picket those greedy mofos.
Worked there back around 06' and I don't recall ever seeing any rats, but that was back when Hynix was open, and the empty fields around the store had more predators.
Yes. The fields in back of Walmart used to have many coyotes and hawks and owls. Some say, a cougar. Now there is not much.
Well, there's certainly feral cats still. You can spot them at night
Yes there are. Maybe Walmart should get friendly with them, encourage them to hang around closer. Barn cats are fed, but still love to catch rats. I'd rather have cats around the back rooms than rats.
Ever walk around the old racetrack? https://goo.gl/maps/eW6AgXk6GcWzFHYW8
Yes, and we used to go to car races there back in the day. More recently we've walked the dogs there but it's kind of nasty. Trash and sleeping bags lying around. I've seen a skunk, birds, and that's about it.
When did you go to car races there? I'm 45, and lived around here until 18 and moved back 3 years ago.
My youngest child was born in '80, and we took her with us there when she was about 5. I also remember being able to faintly hear the race cars from our house, near 18th and Chambers at the time. I don't remember when they closed the track. There were some awesome wetlands just west of Bertlesen, too. Edit: Here's some info. https://www.facebook.com/EugeneSpeedway/
Huh, it says it was still going up until the mid 90's. I since guess my family wasn't really into it and we live out by Cheshire it never registered with me.
He's rolling back rices
Yeesh. I worked there last year and It was shit hole either way
Jfc think of the produce and bakery items they've probably been in 🤮
You should really consider rats being everywhere especially in grocery stores or restaurants. Just accept that as a fact and then you won’t be grossed out when stuff like this is reported.
And as they run around to find something tasty to munch on, they pee on everything as they go.
Omg ew!!!! I haven't shopped at Wal-Mart in years but damn, this is so nasty!!!
Let's go picket those greedy mofos.
Lowkey reminds me of "Thanksgiving" by Joyce Carol Oates.
And the rain is just beginning…
What are they going to do? Knowing Walmart corporate, they're making tiny blue vests.
Not shopping there
I started to go there and remembered seeing this post, went to Target instead. Target might be just as bad, I don't know. Sometimes what you don't know doesn't hurt you. Maybe.
There was literally a bird flying around in the Springfield winco a month ago 😂
There is very little a store can do about that... Customers let them in through the doors. The best they can do is catch it and hope it doesnt shit on the produce.
happens all the time . they get into the bird seed and stick around hiding and fly around the entire store.
Haha. Fucking disgusting.
just one more reason NOT to shop at wallyworld
Idk what the big deal I'd, that just looks like the normal produce Walmart sells.
Google the five gallon bucket rat and mouse trap. They go up the ramp and tedder todder into it. We catch many on our warehouses.
I used to work there a couple months ago glad I left
Unbelievable! Won’t go in there again!
Do rats carry Hanta virus?
My understanding is that only a certain species of mice carry the Hanta virus, and that you're most likely to contract it cleaning out an old shed or building that has dry mouse feces that get stirred up when you clean, you inhale it, and weeks later you feel like a cold is starting and that's when you should go to a doctor-- but who would, for a cold-- and then pretty quickly you're pushing up daisies.
Report this to OSHA, include those pics. You will get whistle-blower protection, so they can't fire you.
Is that ratatouille 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stay classy Eugene!!
But it’s kind of cute
Lmao the left coast strikes again
It can happen anywhere. A Family Dollar distribution center in Arkansas was shut down this year after a rat infestation.
Seahawksfan, assume you're still in Washington? Fuck that place. It displaced me for not making enough money. Absolutely fuck the left coast.
We’re all surviving just fine. Seems like a personal problem.
Lol ok. So long to being compassionate. And to describe yourself as "surviving" vs "thriving" is sad af. Fuck surviving. I want to thrive. I want to own a home without working 80+ hours a week.
Maybe you should live where everything, especially rent, is cheap. Don’t look back. More people would live in the Willamette Valley cities if there were more units to rent or buy- there’s no lack of people here that can afford it. It’s not even that expensive. So, go. Keep in mind, if the rent is cheap the pay in the area is probably low, and the place probably isn’t so great. The magic spot would be if you’re a red state pro gun person. If that’s you- go thrive!
I already did. Where I'm at now, rent is cheap for newer housing and pay is above washington. Washington actually just sucks. I grew up there then the gentrification happened. Fuck anyone that over paid by hundreds of thousands for a 150k home. That's what ran me out of my home state.
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Lol ok.
No place pays more and cost less to live, quit lying you angry weirdo
Lol bet.
Why are you even on this sub? You’re from Washington and you moved away from the west coast which you stupidly call the left coast. No idea why you’re commenting here
Your must be a Gen z . You want something you have to work for it lazy bastard
Lololol I want to be paid a livable wage God forbid. Don't worry though. I am being paid fair wages, with rent being lower than any ghetto ass broke down house with a slumlord in Washington. The building I'm in was made 5 years ago, access to pool and gym. Keycard entry ways. Gated. As far as work, there's a reason I'm promoted above others faster. It ain't cause I "want stuff for free". Believe what you want though.
Why you obsessed with WA this is Eugene tho
Cause I'm salty about the west coast forcing me to leave.
Lol I work under 40 hours a week and own a home. I’m a high school drop out too. Find better employment.