Nope - never! Where are you?

I think that is smart! I always end up with green potatoes no matter how closely I inspect the bags.

Does it work? I live in Idaho and have noticed a spike in "green" in our store bought potatoes the past few years. And some really nasty black onions. They look fine on the outside, but when you cut into them, They are black on the inside.

Yes. I shop late at night so I see it frequently.

I have never seen that but next time I am shopping late I will look.

Yes, both of our "better" grocery stores do this "off" hours

I never shop late and very rarely buy anything except sweet potatoes.

I've never seen that...interesting.

I haven't seen it....but I don't usually go late at night.

I have never seen it but I always keep my potatoes in the dark just for this reason.

Potatoes must be shielded from sunlight, else their 'eyes' will begin to sprout and the skin will produce chlorophyll. If the light is present. but lessened by being indoors, it merely takes longer for them to sprout.

Our Metro store covers the potatoes like that

I'll defer to veggie growers but I believe potatoes are harvested in the fall. Those in markets this time of year have been in storage since then and aren't as fresh as those found earlier in the year.

Yes, I work at a grocery and we do this everynight. Ours isn't as solid as that one looks, more like a black small mesh... keeps enough light out but you can still see what is under it so late shoppers can pull it back and get what they need.

yes

Yuppers!

I have not seen that, but shop in the mornings.

Years ago when I worked at a Target store we had large cloth covers that we used at night to keep dust off things like the spinning jewelry and sunglasses displays. My first though about that picture was "oh, they are trying to keep the dust off the potatoes!"

I haven't seen that but I'm not shopping at night usually.

I am very paranoid about green potatoes. I watched a news clip once about an entire family that died from eating green potatoes. I wonder how green is to green because most potatoes around here have at lesst a little green under the skin.

I disagree with Jemdandy on this. Chlorophyll is good for us, but the green color that develops in potatoes is not chlorophyll; it's solanine, a poison. Mamapinky is smart to be paranoid about it. It's present in tiny amounts in potatoes that haven't turned green, as well as other members of the nightshade family (eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes) and a few others--globe artichokes and okra, to name two. Most people aren't bothered by this tiny amount, but I can't tolerate any of it. (I will always miss tomatoes.)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tater-taught/

If it's not too green, I always peel it off. It's frustrating when I want to make baked potatoes and they all have green!

I've had better luck with non-green potatoes from Amazon fresh. Maybe the warehouses have less light?

Okay, then Jemdandy was right--the green is chlorophyll. But it's presence indicates a concentration of solanine. I find Snopes useful sometimes, but in this case I think they soft-pedaled the effects of solanine. I know my reaction to solanine is extreme (because my liver doesn't process toxins properly), but it's well-known that the nightshade family often aggravates arthritis and/or other conditions--even without green potato skins.

I never thought about what the green was. I just cut that part away. I do not prepare potatoes often, but when I do, I buy just what I need.

The produce manager is cute to say that he tucks the potatoes in before he goes home at night. I felt a little bad to uncover them, but I was very conscientious about covering them back up. BTW, none of the potatoes that I bought had any green under the skin.

I am in Maryland

Hmm, I wonder if the potatoes get cranky if they don't get their rest? :-) We had a potato bin in the basement and the potatoes would be dug up late fall and put in the bin. We usually had enough to last until late winter but by that time the ones remaining would be sprouted and some quite wrinkly. Any small amount of green was just cut off when peeling.

Wow I never knew that about potatoes. I don't know if my grocery store does that or not . Next time I need potatoes I going to grab the bag from the bottom of the pile that doesn't get as much light.