LA MIRADA GYMNASIUM
Thursday, June 19, 2014
TRICKED AGAIN
I gave this store, its service, products, and owner a 1-star rating. Let me explain.
The owner of this store was helpful. He explained that his store offers two kinds of water--alkaline water and purified city water. The alkaline water is $1 a gallon; the purified water is .25 a gallon. He apologized for being out of 1 gallon containers. That was not a problem for me, unless it turns out that he doesn't provide that size at all only to sell larger-sized containers and therefore larger amounts of water. I bought a 2 gallon container. He pointed me to BPA-free containers. They have a very visible sticker on the handle that announces "BPA-Free." The owner pointed me to the number on the bottom of the container, telling me that a #7 is the best plastic bottle to buy if I am trying to avoid BPA. I knew nothing about numbers rating BPA on plastic bottles. So I trusted him. I verified when I arrived home. What I found was that #7 is one of the plastics to avoid. The information is here: "#7 Polycarbonate contains bisphenol-A, a . . . hormone disruptor. This chemical can leach out when it is heated or exposed to acidic solutions. This type of plastic is very common in sports bottles and is used in most baby bottles and 5-gallon water jugs--watch for this one!" http://hubpages.com/hub/Plastics-to-Avoid. That was my second disappointment.
My first disappointment was that the owner could not tell me what was in the water. Nor could he tell me what was purified out of it. On this topic, he pointed me to a list pinned on the wall behind the fountains. The list contained a lot of ingredients, but they were not listed systematically, alphabetically, or by concentration. In other words, the list was useless. It was there to give the appearance of providing information. But the information was not organized in any meaningful way to provide any information whatsoever. It listed ingredients randomly, some with concentration numbers, others without. I could glean no information from the list that could tell me whether the water was healthy. I liked the owner. He seemed friendly and attentive enough. He spent time with me trying to explain things, and so I trusted his efforts. But I got sold a bill of goods. Here I was thinking that I was getting healthy water in a healthy container only to learn once I got home that I was tricked. It's not nice.
I called his number, 562-404-8669, listed on the Yelp site at 3:52pm and received no answer. I called back 5 minutes later, and still no answer. Just got a recording machine.
This site seems to me to have a pretty good assessment on which, if any, plastics are good and which ones are bad. I think that they all leach something that will disrupt hormone production. I just don't want the estrogenic hormone producers.
Extra Fresh Drinking Water
14507 Pioneer Blvd.
Norwalk, CA 90650
562-864-0273
I gave this store, its service, products, and owner a 1-star rating. Let me explain.
The owner of this store was helpful. He explained that his store offers two kinds of water--alkaline water and purified city water. The alkaline water is $1 a gallon; the purified water is .25 a gallon. He apologized for being out of 1 gallon containers. That was not a problem for me, unless it turns out that he doesn't provide that size at all only to sell larger-sized containers and therefore larger amounts of water. I bought a 2 gallon container. He pointed me to BPA-free containers. They have a very visible sticker on the handle that announces "BPA-Free." The owner pointed me to the number on the bottom of the container, telling me that a #7 is the best plastic bottle to buy if I am trying to avoid BPA. I knew nothing about numbers rating BPA on plastic bottles. So I trusted him. I verified when I arrived home. What I found was that #7 is one of the plastics to avoid. The information is here: "#7 Polycarbonate contains bisphenol-A, a . . . hormone disruptor. This chemical can leach out when it is heated or exposed to acidic solutions. This type of plastic is very common in sports bottles and is used in most baby bottles and 5-gallon water jugs--watch for this one!" http://hubpages.com/hub/Plastics-to-Avoid. That was my second disappointment.
My first disappointment was that the owner could not tell me what was in the water. Nor could he tell me what was purified out of it. On this topic, he pointed me to a list pinned on the wall behind the fountains. The list contained a lot of ingredients, but they were not listed systematically, alphabetically, or by concentration. In other words, the list was useless. It was there to give the appearance of providing information. But the information was not organized in any meaningful way to provide any information whatsoever. It listed ingredients randomly, some with concentration numbers, others without. I could glean no information from the list that could tell me whether the water was healthy. I liked the owner. He seemed friendly and attentive enough. He spent time with me trying to explain things, and so I trusted his efforts. But I got sold a bill of goods. Here I was thinking that I was getting healthy water in a healthy container only to learn once I got home that I was tricked. It's not nice.
I called his number, 562-404-8669, listed on the Yelp site at 3:52pm and received no answer. I called back 5 minutes later, and still no answer. Just got a recording machine.
This site seems to me to have a pretty good assessment on which, if any, plastics are good and which ones are bad. I think that they all leach something that will disrupt hormone production. I just don't want the estrogenic hormone producers.
Extra Fresh Drinking Water
14507 Pioneer Blvd.
Norwalk, CA 90650
562-864-0273
Friday, June 6, 2014
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