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by Red_Leaves_Flyy 1644 days ago
If I can’t trust Amazon to handle this issue why should I trust their grocery stores to not sell pesticide contaminated foods?

Similarly, why should I trust Walmart to not sell similarly contaminated items in store? If Amazon can get away with, wittingly or not poisoning, their customers, then as history shows it is a short matter of time before their competitors cut the same corner.

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Amazon has a long history of selling hazardous, poisonous goods on its website:

https://www.insider.com/amazon-selling-toxic-toys-lead-poiso...

> Amazon has been selling thousands of products that have failed federal safety tests, including children's toys containing four to 411 times the safe limit of lead.

I am not aware of similar problems with poisonous products being sold through the physical storefronts of Whole Foods or Amazon Fresh.

However, if in fact Amazon's physical grocery stores are just as bad as its website, then you absolutely should not trust Amazon grocery stores not to sell you pesticide contaminated foods.