Instead of the perfectly-fine “expired” food going to the dumpster, feed people. Help the community.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That’s exactly what they do already for 99% of the food. Not everything is donatable, but the vast majority of it is. They get tax relief back, so they have financially incentive to do so.

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      1 year ago

      I worked at a grocery store as a supervisor for a few years and 80% of food was thrown away rather than donated. They still donated a fair bit of food to the local food bank weekly, but the vast majority just got thrown out. Anecdotal obviously.

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        I imagine it depends from store to store. But if anything that’s probably why we should have some kind of requirement and fines for not donating rather than an incentive to donate.

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        I like how we both supplied anecdotal evidence, but they’re agreeing with you more just because of the conclusion they want to come to

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      99%? Is there any data to back that up? I see incredible amounts of waste just where I am. I can’t imagine a number even close to 99 is true.

      It depends on who you poll as well. If you only talk to stores that do it and ignore the ones that don’t, your averages are going to be misinformed data skewed too high. I dunno.

      99 is an unreasonable number so I don’t believe you.

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        1 year ago

        I can tell you 99% is what I donated out of everything I got rid of. I donated well over $1k+ a day, it was a big store. Rest went to pig farms or whatever it went lol. Believe what you want to believe, just remember you don’t really have any contrary evidence either, and obviously I’m giving anecdotal evidence.