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That whole “ThEy CoUlD gEt SuEd lolilol” is nothing more than corporate bullshit to justify not having the basic decency of feeding the poor rather than the trashcan. When you’re grasping at straws to the point of having to buy expired food, you don’t have the financial leeway to pay a lawyer good enough to go against a big corp.Realistically he shouldn’t give it to him, he (or I guess the store) could get sued if they got sick from the expired food. If you’re going to give some away you should pick some almost out of date stuff. That being said he might still do it bc he just works there, plus he’s a nice guy
Yeah I learned that too recently. The actual reason most companies don't give away the expired food to individuals is typically logistics, the costs (unfortunatly) and the optics of not wanting poor people hanging around/associated with their stores. That's why food banks and such are so important, the middle man that takes on the logistics, optics and some of the costs makes it much more attractive to give away the expired/almost expired food for some easy brownie pointsThat whole “ThEy CoUlD gEt SuEd lolilol” is nothing more than corporate bullshit to justify not having the basic decency of feeding the poor rather than the trashcan. When you’re grasping at straws to the point of having to buy expired food, you don’t have the financial leeway to pay a lawyer good enough to go against a big corp.
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Yeah, the optics, you’re perfectly right. That’s probably the most important aspect, and the most infuriating.Yeah I learned that too recently. The actual reason most companies don't give away the expired food to individuals is typically logistics, the costs (unfortunatly) and the optics of not wanting poor people hanging around/associated with their stores. That's why food banks and such are so important, the middle man that takes on the logistics, optics and some of the costs makes it much more attractive to give away the expired/almost expired food for some easy brownie points
Damn that sucks. He was probably not wrong though, the way goverment subsedies/budgets work tend to be synical like that. Same reason (at least American) army bases waste millions worth of ammo in "practice" so their budgets don't get cut. Wait actually hold on the mayor said that? I take it back that's just sadYeah, the optics, you’re perfectly right. That’s probably the most important aspect, and the most infuriating.
Couple years ago, I managed a public elementary school. Kids being kids, we always had some (undistributed) leftovers after lunch, a lot of it in neat little packaging, but it all went straight to the trash. So I advocated to give it out to whomever wanted it. Logistics and cost: zero. Instead of putting the food in the bin, we just had to put it on the lid of the bin, and whatever was still there the next morning would be taken away by the garbage people. Even better, the bin was in a back alley where the kids never went, so no risk of having some… interesting… encounters.
But the mayor told me that if the citizens saw that we had leftover food pretty much every day to give out, they would think we were buying too much, should reduce the quantities, and in turn reduce the price they paid to have their kids fed. All while these fuckers paid less than half the real cost of the school lunch, the difference being discreetly subsidized by the town!! So in the end, only the people working at the school were allowed to bring some leftovers back home, as long nobody saw them doing so…
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