I’ve just tried to send the following to the Dominion, but they only accept comments which are 1,000 characters long. I think I’ll have to send it the old fashioned way instead…
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I am writing with regards to the recently renovated Dominion Store at [insert name of the intersecting streets]. I have lived within walking distance of this store since 1978 & was glad to see the renovations. As part of the renovations, however, Dominion also made a few changes to the services and food available.
The new Olive Bar has been expanded to include roasted vegtable salads of various descriptions. One of the salads is a marinated seafood salad.
I am ***very allergic*** to fish and shellfish. If I come into contact with even one drop or a trace amount of fish and shellfish I will go into full allergic shock including going unconscious, having difficulty breathing, and needing to visit the hospital or risk death.
For this reason I was very concerned about the advent of the marinated seafood salad. I spoke to the manager of the Deli section and she moved the seafood salad to one corner of the display, but said that she would talk to the store manager when I suggested that the seafood salad should NOT be in the same display because people have a tendency to use one spoon for several items transfering/contaminating all of the salads/olives with seafood.
That was several months ago. Nothing has been done to remove the seafood salad from the display. In fact, a week ago I was at the store and noticed that all of the serving spoons except ONE had been removed so that anyone buying olives/salads had to use one spoon for the entire olive bar. Thus, anyone buying any one of these items had to contaminated all of the others with the ingredients of each one.
Since the day I first saw the marinated seafood salad in your olive bar, I have been forced to buy my olives at other nearby supermarkets which do not include seafood in their olive display.
Since speaking to the Deli manager yielded no action on the marinated seafood salad in the Olive Bar, I feel that I am left with no choice but to write the company in general and to ask you to please make sure that your stores are cognizant of hyperallergies and take steps to keep common allergens — like fish and shelfish — away from other products for sale at the Dominion.
I look forward, not to your responding email, but to the store in question removing the marinated seafood salad from the olive bar to a more appropriate location.
Kind Regards,
Hyperallergy Girl
