it's common to buy bread with no packaging from a bakery. you can just throw it in your bag or put it in a paper bag if you want. if you were worried you could just make sure you bring a clean cotton bag to bring it home in. I personally hate how much plastic there is on everything, and I've seen grocery in the USA, it's nuts you guys wrap nearly everything.
I can't imagine just throwing naked food into a bag with all the other groceries and the germs, etc.
I'm sorry, but no amount of traps, poison, etc. can completely eliminate roaches and rats from a warehouse. It's one thing to put fruits and vegetables in with your cans and boxes -- which are, at the very least, contaminated by the exhaust fumes from the forklift -- because you can wash them. It's another to put something that can't be washed in with dirty items.
More to the point, it's really only the baker that touches the bread. You, as the customer, just tell the baker that you want a loaf of bread behind the counter, and he hands it to you.
That must make things extremely expensive. I know what I get paid to cut meat and cheese for people. Labor is the most expensive part of the grocery operation.
maybe we could package our bread in paper bags with a bar code for scanning rather than in plastic bags.
Bakeries used paper bags when I was a kid. It's fine if you want to eat the bread today or tomorrow -- depending on how dry your house is. After 3 days it's getting pretty stale.
Customers, or employees? Either way, not good.
Well, we get rid of employees who won't follow food safely practices. But plenty of coughing, sneezing customers who handle all the produce and pick up a dozen containers to scrutinize the expiration dates before selecting one, etc.