Originally Posted by
unknownk
Grocery store food goes to waste all the time, they pay for insurance and when the stuff goes bad they get insurance money for it.
This is simply not true. Grocery stores do not get insurance money for food that has gone bad, not unless it was a natural disaster like a fire or flood, and even then it's considered inventory that was destroyed, not food that went bad. I was in the grocery business for many years, I have never heard of any grocery store getting insurance money for food that has gone bad. If that was the case, then grocery stores would never mark anything down because they could get the full price from their insurance if they just let it go bad.
Originally Posted by
unknownk
I guarantee if the ex store owner just opened up the doors a day ahead of time and said it was all free he would be in court later in the month after somebody got a stomache ache from bad food and sued him. Why would the banks want to have legal issues over food that could be expired and tainted, that legaly they don't even own (just the building not the contents) by giving it out?
Either volunteers could have sorted the food by date and handed it out, or waivers could have been signed leaving the responsibility up to the individual person. It could have been handled in the right way, instead of in the wasteful way. I am sure if the right groups were called, that more than enough people would have shown up to ensure that the food that was passed out in an orderly fashion would be good wholesome food and not anything out of date.
Originally Posted by
unknownk
My old neighbor (now deceased) used to haul food around to needy people that grocery stores donated to his church. He would have all kinds of bread and sweets (store made) to hand out, and some canned goods that were at the expiration date but nothing else.
I used to give food to churches and shriners, gleaners, etc all the time. Matter of fact, I used to give things like cheese that was out of date, and yogurt because it's a little known fact that cheese is still good months and months after the date of expiration, and yogurt can legally be sold 30 days out of date without any risk of harming people. It's the Dairy Council who requires dates to be put on product so it has to be thrown out, and not because the food spoils but because they need to keep dairy products churning out.
Throwing good food out is just plain wrong, period. In my humble opinion there is just no good reason or argument for doing so.
Scott
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