Not an excuse but I’ve been told that some big stores don’t donate expired stuff for liability reasons. Which is bullshit. We have enough food for everyone but profits are always put before people. And if you can’t afford food you’re probably not gonna get a lawyer to sue for free bread that hurt your tummy.
Take a look sometime at the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act. It protects donations made in good faith; liability only comes into play when ill intent is involved (i.e. purposely sending spoiled meat). That’s how I was able to convince them for the little bit they’ve gone for so far.
“liability” being a euphemism for artificial scarcity. Ever seen those videos of employees forced to cut up perfectly good clothes or that girl fired from Dunkin for donating donuts they told her to throw away? they need to keep their prices up and destroy their own product to do so.
damn damn damn damn damn there’s a really expensive blazer with a real faint paisley i wanted to buy ten or so years ago and looked great in but i didn’t have 700 bucks in the jacket fund (i have bought 700 bucks worth of regret tho) so i left it in the store. and just hoped i would somehow run into it somewhere, sometime in the future. not as fabric shreds.
I work at an auto parts scrap facility and you’re right on the money. Besides defective parts, there is a mind boggling amount of brand new parts that never make it into a car. Anything that the automaker can’t sell gets shredded and destroyed so resellers can’t get at them and the automaker gets a cut of the refund for the materials.
That’s a common myth. There are laws in place that exempt stores from liability in this exact scenario. No, the real reason they do it is to enforce artificial scarcity. They can’t donate to a food bank, because then people might get it for free instead of paying the store for it.
Not an excuse but I’ve been told that some big stores don’t donate expired stuff for liability reasons. Which is bullshit. We have enough food for everyone but profits are always put before people. And if you can’t afford food you’re probably not gonna get a lawyer to sue for free bread that hurt your tummy.
Take a look sometime at the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act. It protects donations made in good faith; liability only comes into play when ill intent is involved (i.e. purposely sending spoiled meat). That’s how I was able to convince them for the little bit they’ve gone for so far.
“liability” being a euphemism for artificial scarcity. Ever seen those videos of employees forced to cut up perfectly good clothes or that girl fired from Dunkin for donating donuts they told her to throw away? they need to keep their prices up and destroy their own product to do so.
damn damn damn damn damn there’s a really expensive blazer with a real faint paisley i wanted to buy ten or so years ago and looked great in but i didn’t have 700 bucks in the jacket fund (i have bought 700 bucks worth of regret tho) so i left it in the store. and just hoped i would somehow run into it somewhere, sometime in the future. not as fabric shreds.
I work at an auto parts scrap facility and you’re right on the money. Besides defective parts, there is a mind boggling amount of brand new parts that never make it into a car. Anything that the automaker can’t sell gets shredded and destroyed so resellers can’t get at them and the automaker gets a cut of the refund for the materials.
That’s a common myth. There are laws in place that exempt stores from liability in this exact scenario. No, the real reason they do it is to enforce artificial scarcity. They can’t donate to a food bank, because then people might get it for free instead of paying the store for it.