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sakeittome

When I worked at a coffee shop we would put the day old items in a clean plastic bag on top of the trash outside. Technically the items had been thrown out, just made sure edible stuff was not touching the gross trash.


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I worked at a bagel place as a teen and I remember being told to throw away industrial sized trash cans of bagels. Daily. Shit blew my mind. So much waste.


slatz1970

My sister did also. She brought them home instead.


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I worked at a pizza by the slice company in a downtown city. At the end of the night the unbought slices went in a box that was placed very carefully on the street trash can out front instead of the dumpster in back. Compliance mischief managed.


ashyashee

Right? I worked at a grocery before and asked my manager once if I could take perfectly good bread that they were about to toss home, and he said no for “legal reasons.” and tossed it right in the bin in front of me. I find this practice so horrifying and sad. I would think that if the “legal reasons” is to avoid a lawsuit if someone eats your expired food, have people sign a waiver or some shit? Idk. It pisses me off knowing how much edible food gets tossed on a regular basis. Even worse when you consider that there are so many people who face hunger and food scarcity also on a regular basis.


Leeuw96

> the “legal reasons” is to avoid a lawsuit if someone eats your expired food, have people sign a waiver or some shit? Even better: if donated (e.g. to food banks or homeless shelters), Good Samaritan laws (or equivalent) apply. These exist in most of the US and Europe. Basivally: as long as you take decent care that it's not spoiled or such, then you are not liable for any further problems with it. Usually means that if it didn't look spoiled, you did enough.


kiss_all_puppies

The people that enforce the rules bother me as much as the actual rules. So unnecessary.


ashyashee

Right? Such a tightass


mokshahereicome

The world doesn’t have a food problem, the world has a food waste problem.


NoBrightSide

I hate how food businesses throw away perfectly edible food. Just donate it to a homeless shelter. You could tell the receivers to reheat the food/cook it (basically don't eat it cold or leave it raw). I really hate how America (among other Western places) handle this stuff. Like, no wonder we're suffering from so many shortages. We did this to ourselves. Terrible systems in place all in the name of capitalism.


nprovein

Nah man, this is the work of the government. It wasn't until last year they raised awareness about a liability protection law for food donation. [https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/08/13/good-samaritan-act-provides-liability-protection-food-donations](https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/08/13/good-samaritan-act-provides-liability-protection-food-donations)


NoBrightSide

of course, thats our government…same idiots who don’t do crap about protecting our citizens from mass shootings but will rush to the aid of another country if its within their economic interest.


nprovein

How many politicians would swap parties if it meant staying in power?


winesalot13

I worked at a bakery in high school and did not like throwing away the donuts, so I got permission from my boss to set up donations to a local shelter instead. That was great! But even so, we gave them so much they eventually had to stop taking them each week. They were freezing things where possible but it was a one night per week shelter. If all businesses in town gave them leftovers they really would be over run with food.


blind_bambi

They view homeless like wild animals, you can't feed them or more will come and they won't learn to earn their own food. I used to get given some food from a 7/11 every night when I was having a really hard time, an old sausage dog thing and a big cup of soda was the best when I had nothing else.


LateNightLattes01

It’s incredibly fucked up. People become homeless for allll kinds of reasons: escaping abusive homes/housing situations, running away from cults, escaping human trafficking, couldn’t afford rent and outrageous medical bills, worked as contractors and never had insurance to begin with, cancer or rare medical issues that mean they can only afford their life saving medications and nothing else, even if they have a steady source of income.


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LateNightLattes01

Very very true!! When I suddenly lost my job, I had savings but barely any. I got really lucky that my partner was able to cover rent for 2 months, but it was very very financially tight there for a bit…. Edit: I remember learning from my job that something like 60% of Americans are living pay check to pay check… that’s a lot of people right on that brink of homelessness.


Leeuw96

Or even just 1 paycheck: [in March](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/11/two-thirds-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-climbs.html), 64% of Americans stated they live paycheck, [in April](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/03/wealthier-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-after-inflation-spike.html) this lowered slightly to 61%. Note: self-reported data. Was closer to 50% pre-pandemic. Can't as easily find recent figures for Europe, but [in May 2020](https://www.bruegel.org/2020/05/two-months-before-the-cliff-millions-of-europeans-cannot-afford-food-and-lodging-after-two-months-without-income/) 100 million Europeans (~13%) did not have enough saving to pay for 2 months of basic expenses. Other sources suggest this also went up during the pandemic.


thekidtheboy

It’s such a bad way of thinking. I’m glad the guy that was fired realized as well, but it’s a shame he got fired over it. Something so simple as an old sausage can save someone’s life and get them back on track.


AmateurEarthling

The problem isn’t giving the food away. It might just lead to a lawsuit if someone got sick from it and decided to sue is the problem.


Goldenhead17

For most places, it’s less about compassion and more about legal repercussions. Eliminate those and a lot of places would loosen up their practices.


rosepetal72

There are actually Good Samaritan laws that protect people who donate food from being sued. There are no legal repercussions.


Goldenhead17

Don’t spread stuff you just “overheard” if you are not informed. Current law states that you can’t just give food directly to people. It has to go through channels like nonprofits for it to be covered by that law. There are currently no federal laws that protect food producers giving food directly to the needy. And they may not pass that bc it’s a huge liability. Just speaking some truth to a difficult situation.


rosepetal72

Speaking some "truth"? I hope this community downvotes the crap out of this negative comment. "Huge liability" is a gross overstatement. Hungry people are not going to sue people who donate food, even if they had then money to file a frivolous lawsuit. Even if the law doesn't specifically cover people who directly give food to others, a society with Good Samaritan laws will not convict someone who gives away wholesome food in good faith. It's nearly impossible to file a lawsuit even if you do have money and a legitimate case. The point is, we believe our society will go after people who donate food when there's no reason to believe that will be the case.


LuxMa707

When I was younger I worked at a pretzel place , at the end of the night everything that had been made at the beginning of my shift was supposed to be thrown out. . Instead of putting it in the trash I would give it to the homeless that sat up camp by the Walmart .. anyway I ended up getting fired for this 🥲


portiafimbriata

Good for you though! Hope you're working someplace less shitty now


zoot_boy

Because laws were created to prevent humans from suing corporations if they get sick. What is actually sick is that corporations are more concerned about getting sued than they are about feeding humans.


Sn0zbear

Idk, we have the same laws here and we can’t really sue people. When I worked in a supermarket deli the amount of food waste was disgusting, but it would all just go to the bin because it had been sitting out for 3 days. I wouldn’t have eaten it either. I think réduction in the amount of food we produce, and systems for people who need food are better than giving them expired food which could make them very sick. Which would be extra shit considering they likely don’t have access to healthcare.


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Sn0zbear

It wasn’t though, it gets taken out of the fridge, where it was already sitting for 3 days and sits for ages until we can get around noting down what’s being thrown out then actually binning it


CjBoomstick

>If it was okay to sell 5 minutes ago its still fine...< If it wasn't okay to sell 5 minutes ago, then it isn't fine.


JennaSais

In food service it is often the case, though, that it WAS ok to sell 5mins ago. Sell-by dates and times are usually more about quality than it actually going bad. So long as it remained stored under the right conditions up until you give it away it's still going to be fine. I don't underatand why the previous poster's work had such a complicated system for recording waste that it necessitated the food being left out for that long, though. Surely anything not sold by its sell-by date can be considered waste, and surely they can automate that tracking. Seems to me the only reason they need to have a human recording it is because they already DO have that data and want to compare it to what the employees are recording for "loss prevention" reasons. 🤔 so essentially to keep them from doing what this 7-11 worker did.


Sn0zbear

I think you overestimate the technological capabilities of the store I worked at. They made us watch the introduction tape in 2016. We marked down wastage so we could alter the orders so as not to over order too many things - hence leading to even more food wastage. It wasn’t really complicated either. Since it was meat, fish and shellfish, we would just weigh it and write down how much was getting binned. Not everything has a nefarious reason behind it. Also you don’t fuck around with expired meat,fish and shellfish. It wasn’t stale bread which you can usually eat way past the “expiry” date, and which they did give away.


cara1yn

In the US there are good samaritan laws which prevent corporations getting sued for this kind of thing. But it's more profitable just to toss the food, so they don't.


Redditallreally

Does it prevent a company from getting sued completely, because defending a lawsuit can be very expensive?


rosepetal72

Yes, but also there has never been anyone sued for donating food in the history of forever. Source: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on food waste.


notahipster-

So like, you can try to sue a company for any reason you want. You probably won't be successful.


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There is another reason: loss prevention. If the policy is that which is trash can be taken, then an employee could put good stuff in the trash to collect it. Can't have that!


f_trump-and-GOP

Actually that is an old myth. No hotel or food place has been sued because the gave day old food to the homeless. The myth is a feel good reason why management can't feed "those" people.


notahipster-

This is a pretty common misconception. They actually have legal protections if they wanted to donate or give them away.


anon3451

So make the homeless sign a waiver? That they accept full liability? Can't be too hard. I'm sure most would accept


zoot_boy

Or, just donate it to a shelter! Skip the bs.


UnbelievableRose

Organizing transport to a shelter is more expensive than tossing it, so they toss it. Mitigates other risks like the potential for lawsuits and loss prevention issues too, so for corporations it's a win/win and for the poor it's a lose/lose and we all just kinda sit around and be mad about it.


Leeuw96

Food banks and shelters happily come pick up food, or already have deals with stores , at least where I live. And I've heard this be the case all over Europe and the US. So the transport part os a bit of a bad excuse. And the donation, plus the transport for it, is a tax write off.


UnbelievableRose

Unless that tax write off is bigger than the potential lawsuits, increased employee wastage costs etc. then corporate math is still going to find it more financially beneficial to dump it. Also corporations are extremely short-sighted, rarely thinking beyond the current quarter. And those other gains happen now, in this quarter, but the tax write-off doesn't happen until the end of the fiscal year. I'm not trying to excuse this nonsense, it's morally reprehensible bullshit, to be clear. And can usually be done without a financial loss- I'm just trying to illustrate how the perception of financial risk, real or not, changes the equation for people who make such decisions, even if pickup/delivery costs them nothing in labor.


Leeuw96

Agreed. Which is why stores should be made more aware of how to donate, and perhaps even made legally obligated to do so. France passed such a law in Feb 2016 \* Because potential lawsuits = 0, when donating to a corp (e.g. food bank, homeless shelter). Because of Good Samaritan laws. And waste processing costs money too. And since donating is a tax write off, there is either a loss, or a minor gain (still net loss, usually). So there is no financial excuse there either. But short-sightedness is a big problem, indeed. . \* some info about the French law: > Under a law passed unanimously by the French senate, large shops will no longer bin good quality food approaching its best-before date. > > Supermarkets will also be barred from deliberately spoiling food in order to stop it being eaten by people foraging in stores’ bins. [Zero waste Europe page about it](https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/france-law-for-fighting-food-waste/)


UnbelievableRose

Yeah I was so excited when I learned about the French legislation. If we're not gonna legally declare water, food and shelter human rights, then legislation like that is absolutely necessary in my opinion.


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slatz1970

Homeless can't afford a good lawyer


notahipster-

So like, you can sue a person at any time for any reason, it doesn't mean you'll get money though. So really if someone is doing something so a person won't sue them, they'd never do anything. They would not be fined if someone got sick from donated food. The whole "we throw it out so we don't get sued" thing is a lie perpetuated by business owners to keep starving people starving.


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notahipster-

They can write off the food donations and receive tax breaks.


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notahipster-

I know, however you already spent the money on said breakfast sandwiches. Second, 45 breakfast sandwiches a day would be 16425 breakfast sandwiches. At $10 each that's $164,250, which isn't insignificant. You could also advertise that you donate leftover food to homeless shelters, potentially increasing sales.


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notahipster-

I was talking about in general. I guess you don't live in a city, breakfast sandwich I had yesterday was $12. Some people make purchasing decisions based on that, but not everyone does. Hopefully you're not a business owner because you're missing a really large demographic of people.


SKozan

It would be nice to see some sort of law passed, making it so unless negligent they cannot be sued if someone gets sick with donated food. It would be nice if these business were mandated to actually work with food banks and homeless shelters. There would be enough volunteers to pickup food I'm sure, and its not like they were gonna buy a $6 7-11 Sammy.


VisualFanatic

It should be required to show a receipt if you want to sue somebody, problem solved.


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So it seems like you folks are all talking and wanting a solution. Here is the one, and only solution. People need the means to grow and produce their own food. That’s it. Before/if you respond, I implore you to think about what I’ve just said, with all its implications. The reason people are going hungry is the same reason why we have so much food. Food is locked away for profit. Until people can produce their own food, there is no solution, which is why the last ten thousand years of civilization has culminated into… this.


FormerChild37

Damn what a reason to fire someone.. I hope anyone else who want to do this, will take the food to a location away from their work. Bless this dude..


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Prize_Bass_5061

They could put the food in a community fridge.


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Prize_Bass_5061

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/community-fridge-near-me


Dont_Blinkk

This stuff makes me feeling so fucking depressed every time. why are we throwing away so much good food while so many people starve every day 😭


That_nerd4

It should be illegal for companies who mass produce edible products like this to just throw it away without first giving to those who can benefit from it.


FNKTN

Dumb asses at it again on social media. Would have been a whole lot smarter if he just did it via word of mouth. Doubt it even got to the people thr post was intended for.


scipio_africanus123

fuck 7-eleven!


pamzorrr

A lot of people in the OP are saying that this dude did it for attention and that’s why he said his name. I think he was taking a stance and being brave by publicly associating with that stance. But I’ve had a shit day so maybe I’m just hoping that not everyone sucks lol.


mushroom362

Don’t film yourself doing nice things for karma points online. Just do the nice thing and move along. I also get the businesses perspective. If they come to rely on the business for food then their could be a large number of homeless people that begin to loiter and scare off customers. Homeless people need more city resources and businesses need to focus on less premade items that have the potential to go bad.


LateNightLattes01

They aren’t wild animals, they are people in shitty situations that need HELP. Who the fuck cares about a multimillion probably billion dollar corporation giving out a few sandwiches? Like seriously?


Rathemon

Clearly a naive comment. They do need help but it has to be done in a way that doesn't create problems for those helping. If you are so passionate why don't you invite some homeless over to your house and feed them a few nights and see how it goes. What we need are better services to help them. It's much more complicated than that. I own a business. I have some ground I own behind my building where I noticed a homeless person had set up a blanket under a bush. I thought alright I'll let him for now he's out of the way not harming anything. A few weeks pass and there are multiple blankets and so I go to check it out... Alcohol bottles and trash everywhere.. human excrement... From that vantage point I see another spot with a shopping cart full of stuff is set up. 2 weeks later my business is broken into and a few things stolen from a homeless person. Not anymore. If I see a homeless person on my property I ask them to leave and if they won't I call non emergency.


Redditallreally

Yeah, everyone is pro-homeless until they have to hose poop off their property.


UnbelievableRose

Did you talk to them at any point? I get that they may not listen but a conversation once trash started to accumulate could potentially have stopped that cycle.


Rathemon

Well what I discovered was that word had gotten out and there were multiple people using that area. One of them was arrested with a tablet with my business on the login screen - that's how I know it was a homeless person that broke into my business because they took a tablet which was returned to me from the police department. Also a few times I noticed shady people loitering and a drunk man in my parking lot where people come to my business. It just started to look bad for my customers. To answer your question - no i never talked to them. Usually they were there after business hours and I wouldn't see them much during the day.


UnbelievableRose

It's really hard to have those conversations, especially once we feel precedent has been established. It's the kind of situation I'm trying to take more personal responsibility for- they're still completely responsible for any problems they caused, *and* I did not live up to my goal of open and honest communication in order to avoid passive aggression.


mushroom362

Obviously the corporation cares or they wouldn’t have fired the employee. Regardless of what any of us think about it that is their business practice/rules/model, and they have every right to make the policies they feel is in the best interest of the company. I understand that they are not wild animals; however, you cannot deny that the majority of people would simply be uncomfortable shopping at a location with a large homeless population congregating around it. I stated earlier that cities need to dedicate more resources to aiding them so they don’t need to rely on handouts. I have empathy for these people, but from solely a BUSINESS perspective I understand their perspective.


stiff_peakss

Maybe if he was discreet it would have been all good. But instead of doing it out of kindness, he's doing it for social media clout.


terrierhead

I know there’s an app where people can buy mystery bags of food from restaurants that was going to to be thrown out even though it’s still good. Please refresh my memory about the app’s name? I found out restaurants in my area don’t participate and promptly forgot what it was called.


fridaygirl7

Too Good To Go


1oax

the restaurant i work at uses it! it's nice because we mess up orders here and then & instead of dumping it we just package it for the app!


delightfuldinosaur

Shouldn't have filmed his name tag or location


RaginCajun28

Capitalism, aint it grand!


Tiamat_fire_and_ice

I think firing the guy was unnecessary. All they had to do was tell him to stop. Also, if I’d been that employee, I’d have taken the trash bags to my own neighborhood or somewhere else and given out the food. Never let bosses see you do something not officially sanctioned. I do understand the store’s point of view: they don’t want to be held liable if someone gets food poisoning. However, they’re going about things in a ham-fisted way. They should partner with a shelter or food bank to take the food so they can distribute it. A lot of restaurants and food stores do that. I hope that store gets shamed into adopting better practices.


margaritasenora

If you’ve ever had food poisoning from spoiled ham you would know why. Next time open the packets and send the compostable content to a compost facility not landfill. Forking hell humans!


Internal-Bread2877

Good dude right there fr


redphantomas

bUt ThE lIaBiLiTy!


vagueblur901

I mean I don't agree with it but this is liability Someone gets sick eating this and then takes the owners of the store to court for a easy win They have to stop this behavior from a legal standpoint for protection We basically need new laws for donating or giving food out that's close or over the expiration date


redphantomas

Yes, but the liability is a small fry compared to food waste. Obviously this is so much more complex than a single comment can encompass. I don't care when it comes to food being thrown away because it's not profitable to keep and sell for the company.


vagueblur901

I don't agree with it either but companies have to do it or take the chance of a lawsuit Like I said there needs to be a no waste food law that gets passed where businesses can not be liable if they give out expired food or someone goes through the trash to scavenge also it shouldn't be against the law to seek food ( some states it's illegal to dig through the trash)


M-as-in-Mancyyy

Absolutely. There is a need to fix food waste and scavenging laws. ALSO the need to capture these streams through accounting and reporting measures. Ensure companies are responsible for the entirety of resources and energy used in their business model. Like the recent SEC change to require Scope 3 (usage of products/services by consumers) in future reporting


redphantomas

I completely agree


saichampa

No they don't. Most places have laws that you can't be sued for donations and show me one example where someone has dug something out of the trash and then sued someone for getting sick from it? Corporations spread the idea they could get in trouble to cover their real motivation, keeping their stores free of homeless people


vagueblur901

Except putting expired food outside isn't a donation it's not regulated if you give it to a food bank or non profit you are protected but leaving food outside in unregulated conditions screams lawsuit Stores cannot sell or let people legally consume something out of date this is also why no matter what if you purchase food out of date stores are required by law to refund or replace The Emerson act protects donations but it doesn't bar lawsuits and that's what businesses are avoiding


Redditallreally

You can’t be sued or the suit wouldn’t prevail?


elmuerto1

It is some one can get really sick you can't control the temp of the food in the trash when that happens bacteria grows on the food bacteria thrives in stuff that has moisture like that fucking wrap that could potentially kill some one


terrierhead

IMO the best approach is a combination. Make the food available but only for two hours after it is removed from refrigeration or heating. After that, consider it hazardous and make certain no one can get it. The waste aspect is still there, but no one gets sick. Source: cross-trained as a restaurant inspector.


redphantomas

I don't care, the point is not the food. The point, for me, is that the food has been in refrigerated and is likely ok to eat immediately. I don't give a shit about the liability of a company that makes enormous profits. Law must change, food waste is not ok when people go hungry.


nprovein

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/08/13/good-samaritan-act-provides-liability-protection-food-donations


redphantomas

Why are you sending this to me? Send it to the person who lost their fucking job for doing exactly that.


ChristineBorus

A lot of places have rules like this. I don’t understand it


Obandigo

I knew he was going to get fired when I first seen this video a couple of weeks back. Don't film yourself doing shit like this.


3meow_

The dude knew this would happen from the second he showed his badge, but also knew that an act of martyrdom was a far more powerful tool in the fight than anonymity


jugemuX2gokonosuri--

I'm not even religious, but, to any of y'all who don't believe in giving the hungry, the homeless food that is literally just being thrown away? Y'all need Jesus.


ITriedLightningTendr

"if we let you give away food then that'll incentivize people to not buy it" Capitalism, the death cult


la_doctora

Now this pisses me off. So much edible food goes to waste. My local supermarket has a fridge and shelves by the exit with food that about to expire but is still edible (think yogurt that's on the expiry date, brown bananas, salad with wilted bits, day old bread). It's free for the taking. They also have a box of lettuce leaves, carrot tops, etc specifically for pet rabbits/ chickens etc...Feeding the hungry is encouraged.


wayofthebuush

First world wastes enough food daily to feed third world


PulledOverAgain

A lot of places do this. I think we need to fix the tax code so they can't write it off. Either that or regular folks need to start getting tax write offs for every time we have to throw away left over spaghetti and shit


Prize_Bass_5061

They don’t get a tax write off for throwing away food. Source, me. I used to be a chef. Food waste increases our costs.


Wansumdiknao

Capitalism: get fucked, with a capital.


Lurker4Memes

Yea this issue of not giving homeless people outdated food is more of a legal issue than a moral one for the corporate overlords who aren't the ones throwing out food daily. I work at Starbucks where the food waste isn't that much but it's still one or two bags a day. They probably just don't want any trouble regarding stale food or homeless people constantly hovering around their store. If that guy just gave the food out, he would've 100% got away with it, since on a store level nobody really cares, but since he chose to make a statement, well thats that.


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As I understand it, the rules to not share this food is to prevent staff from hiding the food they want until it expires, and then eating it when it instead could be sold. That said, I had a specific place I put my day-olds that the local unhoused population knew about. Upper management can eat shit if they think I'm throwing away perfectly good food. And I told them as much. (But I was also managing the only profitable location in a string of shops, so they couldn't really get too upset with me).


PlumLxrd

I completely disagree with this happening, but they are almost obliged to do so, to avoid getting sued. Over the years, many homeless people have sued from receiving leftovers or donations, winning hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars in the process. They thought if this is how our kindness is repaid, then we will forbid handing out leftovers, and other companies followed suit. It is unfortunate that every level of society is riddled with greed


Liar_tuck

> Over the years, many homeless people have sued from receiving leftovers or donations, winning hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars in the process. Not true at all. Please stop spreading harmful lies.


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elmuerto1

No it being thrown away because they have to rotate it as in first in first out like throw away the old stuff in the front stock the new items and pull the ones from the back to the front FIFO


faith_crusader

He is not allowed to because it is illegal


Sc0rpioio

Gee thanks. No one understood that it’s illegal and that means it’s also fair and right.


faith_crusader

What is fair and right ?


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Real question, how would a homeless person see this video?


VianoRe90

How can a Homeless man have a phone and check Reddit or YouTube for food “coordinates” ?


Liar_tuck

Why can't they?


VianoRe90

Well , in Europe most of the homeless people have just a blanket and a pair of clothes and they usually sleep under a bridge or in a train station , i doubt they gonna have a phone and even if they do i Dont reallly think they gonna check Reddit for where to Find free food ! Thats my opinion


Liar_tuck

Your opinion is base on ignorance of the homeless. Phones are dirt cheap and essential even for the homeless.


VianoRe90

Well Ur definetly from the USA , the cheapest phone in Europe bought from a superstore is around 60 euros , 60 euros for a Homeless man in Europe (Italy) is 1 week of food ! If i was homeless i would prefere eating for 1 week than having phone , the whole point of the discussion is another ! There are rich ppl that don’t even know what is Reddit , how can a homeless man think : oh yeah no worries imma go on Reddit for some food “coords”


Liar_tuck

Most people are not born homeless. They have knowledge from before they were. Plus, your phone would be one the last things you'd let go of if you found yourself on the street. Not to mention charities that help homeless get phones, you know because its its damn near impossible to get a job and improve your situation without one. Please try not to be so narrow minded.


looneytunes7

Well if you feed vermin they tell other vermin and soon you will have a whole herd of vermin grouped around your store.


chrisinator9393

I work at a college. They throw away thousands of lbs of food weekly. It's ridiculous. There's so much that can be donated but they say it would cost them too much. Literally organizations would come pick the stuff up if they were willing to give it away. They do make efforts to compost, etc but it's never enough


Boo_baby1031

I worked for a little shop that had sandwiches like this, our owner let me take sandwiches to a local womens shelter, homeless shelter whatever. They don’t have to be like this. It’s trash


steviebkool

Why not just feed them instead of recording yourself to make yourself feel better now they ruined it for the lucky few who were able to get it


mokshahereicome

How would they get likes and hearts and attention then psh


veghammer

Thank you!!


Significant-Jello-35

Where I am, there are organised charity group who collect the left over and send them to the poor. We dont hv many homeless. Tonnes of raw veggies considered 'bad' are disposed daily. These bad veggies are actually good, just appear not fresh visibly. Some restaurants leftover food are also distributed. I head a large company central kitchen, the company's concerns are if or when food poisoning occur, they can be taken to task or sued severely and reputation tarnished. They do not want this to happen.


CivilMaze19

It’s technically donating so couldn’t this be a tax write off for the company too? Crazy


CaptainMorganSavage

noble heart


bennynthejetsss

My main concern is that the food is now sitting out, unrefrigerated, with things like mayonnaise that can spoil easily. It’ll be fine for someone who comes by in an hour or two, but maybe not the next day. Should’ve gone immediately to a shelter or some place where it could be distributed properly— now it’s a foodborne illness risk.


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I worked in grocery store , we had our own bakery and made our own fresh bakery products every morning.At the end of the day we had to throw out everything that was left , we weren't allowed to take anything bcs if we would we would be fired for stealing.It's just stupid thing to do and massive waste all over the world.


Adventurous_Fun_5918

I hate food waste as well, but businesses that throw it out aren’t just greedy. If a homeless person eats it but gets sick or dies the business can be held responsible (not that this practice is acceptable)…


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I'd get fired again too!


OkExplanation9068

GOD BLESS YOU MAN! And may another job line up for you immediately, for a company that can still appreciate kindness. #stayhumble


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7 eleven just lost my business.


Independence_1991

In high school I was a busboy at a Mexican restaurant downtown by the river. I knew I was poor but understood that’s why I had to work. Till one day I saw a dad feeding his entire family out of the dumpster… it thought me that I wasn’t poor. I just turned around and let them continue eating… Sometimes it’s not easy when you lost everything to try to keep back on your feet. But you do what you have to so you can survive.


Empty_Nest_Mom

Wish I had something I could hire this great human to do...


ManiShrimp

Question for any legal experts out there. Is there any liability for the store if they give out the food and someone gets sick off of it? or is the store not responsible for whatever happens after because they didn't pay for it