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| Will eat for food (Photo credit: altemark) |
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| English: Discarded food in dumpsters in Stockholm, Sweden (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Food Not Bombs flyer (Photo credit: Toban Black) |
The story from the manager called someone and found that an automobile had hit a electrical power pole.The restaurant people were in a panic with people swarming in to eat.Those folks handled themselves with professional ease.
I did hear a customer state that the local supermarkets were all without power too.The store people were emptying freezer and cooler shelves as fast as they could.I asked why they were doing that?
The customer told me it was cheaper to toss out the food than run generators to keep the huge coolers cold during a power outage.
I went into that grocery store an hour later to find that even the stores vegetable area was stripped of veggies on the shelf.The meat counters were nearly empty as well as the dairy shelves.
Only the dry goods,canned goods and things that they had not gotten to remained.
I asked where they had taken all the food products.A manager told us that was the Coorperate office's standing order on such occasions.There must have been many dumpsters of foo that would have fed a small platoon of people for days.
The current group of politicians have taken steps to poison all food in the dumpsters to prevent the sport of dumpster shopping by the poor and homeless.As well as people who drive up in brand new cars,dressed in very nice clothes.
Wouldn't it be more prudent and charish-able to just call the Local Salvation Army or the Tractor trailers of the well known Food Link folks?They would have no problem excepting food from a Known source.They could then (still) write off the loss as a loss.There is many Church snd community organizations that would drop everything to go pick this food up...But it's cheaper to through it into dumpsters.The dopes that came up with that little gem must have slept through the
course on business and public relations 101 efforts.
The suite that ordered and okayed that should have the cost deducted from their big bonus at Christmas time or whatever they celebrate...What a malicious waste of resources from the needy.
This kind of foolish business practice is what the world has accepted as the normal business routine.
If this is just one example of what mega stores do,imagine the amount times all the stores monthly!
I have been told stories of store managers telling workers to trash brand new bicycles in the compactor and write it off.If your down on finances and still healthy a bike would help.
appliances that are scratched or dinged....trashed and written off.what a waste of resources.It just goes into recycling at more expense and way before it's time.But I have an idea how to help this problem.
The way to fix this is as follows: make it mandatory to explain where the goods went and for what reason.Then there's a tracking order to follow to that discards destination.
next the Corporations that are well known organizations would have to be called to pick the product up.There would be a list of places locally to notify of the pickup.
The food would not be wasted because it would be delivered to people and places that truly need it.
It would not be allowed to be wasted by air-headed ceo wanna be's.
The places that need this food and write-off merchandise are many.Here is a few that I can think of right now.
The Battered Womens shelter
The Children's shelters
Homeless kitchens and missions
Salvation Army Kitchens
Churches that have Gleaners Kitchens
funds for many public organizations:
volunteer Firemen,Police,and many more that are always in need of raising funds to operate properly.There is literally thousands of places that could benfit from the sores loss.
Yeah,I know that it's a business.It's also a part of the community that has a very long and sometimes harsh memory of business's that are not community minded...Charity without a loss is a win-win situation.At least that is what my business teacher taught.Giving what you do- not want and trading it for great PR as well as Great community image is key to any business.Do those CEO's live in our world??
There must be a niche somewhere in this social structure to use this undamaged food and products more responsibly.
