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I’d just take it home. If I couldn’t do that then I would be eatin the shit out of it right there. You know I would already know where the cameras were. Fire me bitch I already can’t afford life working at some stupid corponazi grocery store. I just love not snitchin… it feels sooooo good
Great that I am not using plastic straws though!
(yes, I know, I know. Still.)
Looking at his shadow… is he Toad from Mario?
I am looking for education here.
How is this a captialism problem? Food gets thrown away because it’s expired. Selling expired food carries legal risk because people might get sick from eating it.
How does <your preferred system of government> solve this problem? Are expiration dates less strict? Are people less able to hold entities responsible for selling unsafe food?
Like, I’m certain whichever store had to trash entire pallets of
bolognafood doesn’t want this to happen again. They’ll reduce their order next time🤷♂️Idk what im missing, assuming this post was in good faith
edit: based off the contents of the dumpster, I’m pretty sure a deli refrigerator just failed and let the meat products get warm
How is this a captialism problem? Food gets thrown away because it’s expired. Selling expired food carries legal risk because people might get sick from eating it.
Food is overproduced, knowing full well it will be wasted, because marketing shows people rather see full shelves. Nobody buys “the last watermelon” as they assume it must be the worst of the bunch. On the flip side, food is thrown away instead of donated because markets fear they will lose a bit of revenue from people who rather wait and eat food that is close to expiry because money is tight… so they rather throw away and bleach perfectly edible food lest they miss out on any revenue
How does <your preferred system of government> solve this problem? Are expiration dates less strict? Are people less able to hold entities responsible for selling unsafe food?
There should be a heavy tax on wasted food. That would incentivize supermarkets to not fill the shelves solely for marketing, discount food that will go to waste soon or even give it away rather than throw it in the garbage
The problem is complex under capitalism but this would at least put incentives in the right place
Like, I’m certain whichever store had to trash entire pallets of bologna food doesn’t want this to happen again. They’ll reduce their order next time🤷♂️
Only if they think the reduction will not lead to any loss of revenue… they are not concerned about the wasted food, they just want the bottom line to go up forever
Idk what im missing, assuming this post was in good faith
Check this very old TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/tristram_stuart_the_global_food_waste_scandal … TLDR: we produce about twice a much food as THE WORLD needs to feed everyone and chose to throw away about 50% of it because the incentive is to make a profit, not feed people
I once was responsable for orders in a small city grocery store. When I ordered less meat, and the fridge didn’t look overfull, we just sold less and threw out only a little less. I took the liberty of just making the part of the fridge with relatively fast expiring meat smaller throughout the day and noticed sales go up cause the fridge didn’t look as empty. Just my very anecdotal experience…
Wow you must have a lot of accounts to upvote this so many times.
no, you are just an idiot who refuses to see reality
To add to what the other has said I highly suggest you read up on the history of expiration dates on food in the US. They don’t mean the food has expired as in “the food is rotten”. They usually only mean the food is “below the guaranteed quality standard of the company”. Most food that goes past its expiration is still perfectly edible.
It’s a marketing gimmick.
Plus, to the edit made being a cooler went out just because food has gotten somewhat warm doesn’t mean it’s gone bad. It all could still have been donated to a food bank or homeless shelter to feed people in need right now, thanks to good Samaritan protections, but companies would rather destroy it all and get the insurance to cover the shrink than to let the people eat without being able to profit off of it.
Everyone knows that one line from the Grapes of Wrath but I highly recommend reading the entire passage it comes from. It’s very pertinent to this topic.
The decay spreads over the State, and the sweet smell is a great sorrow on the land. Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow.
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up?
And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.
And the smell of rot fills the country.
Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.
The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
