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Originally Posted by Slava
Or they accept a box of apples for example, and throw out the poorer quality ones. I'm not suggesting that there ought to be shelves of rotten produce for sale, but reasonably speaking there is a lot of food that goes directly to waste because of our incredibly high standards. The same thing happens with baked goods, and all kinds of other food for sale. One of the greatest contributions to a rugby club I played for was an enormous box of premade, but "expired" sandwiches that a guy brought us. They couldn't be sold, but they were still sealed and totally fine.
All my point comes down to is that there is a lot of perfectly edible and good food that goes to waste. Suggesting that we feed the poor with contaminated food in the face of that waste is just ridiculous.
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I don't know about other stores but when I worked at Loblaw I'm pretty sure (wasn't my department) we rejected any load that had even one box of damaged or spoiled produce. You couldn't accept a partial load like you could with other product. I don't remember the exact reasoning for this but I'm pretty sure it was for the reasons I stated earlier. it was super annoying for us in transport cause we had to scramble to cover whatever that load was so that we don't short product...
I do agree its really wasteful. The thing is that as long as there are better options (i.e. apples that aren't bruised) no one is going to buy the damaged apples for the price that the store can offer it for. Once you factor in cost of goods sold for each apple, you can only offer a few cents off for the damaged product.
And well, now that they just laid 700 people off, maybe that policy will be reviewed lol.