finally a law that values people over profit margins more countries should take notes
mulberrybushes on
the UK, Luxembourg and I’m sure lots of other countries do this without benefit of a specific legislation.
The French law has been in place since 2020.
CustomerStrict3627 on
stonewallgamer on
Its vile that they don’t do this already and it’s even more vile that they have been forced to do it. Why isn’t it the standard? Greedy, bloodsucking corporations that care about pieces of paper more than the life of another.
IceGuilty3065 on
Damn I hope other countries do the same. Stores can end up wasting so much food.
LiceryYT on
rare France W
Uwuther-Pendwagon on
W France
AirsickIowlander on
I work for a large grocery store chain, managed the produce department for about a year and have worked in several other departments as well. The amount of perfectly good food we throw away daily is insane, my one store alone could probably keep every homeless person in my medium sized city fed with what we throw away. If a law like this were passed here there would be no hungry people in the US. And it wouldn’t cost the store a penny.
ShaniquaQ on
Let them eat (expired) cake bitches
moving0target on
Let them eat cake!
catskilkid on
But no muffin stumps please.
AdDisastrous6738 on
In the US, as soon as someone got sick from eating something expired they would sue.
I worked for a local grocery store chain in the early 2000s and they would sell or give away dented cans of food. Some lady said that she got sick and sued the company. Even though the company was found not liable they were still out thousands of dollars in court costs. We had to start throwing everything away after that.
WillUSee on
Helpful-Cod1422 on
This needs to happen in the US!
Anaccount6 on
This sounds good but what about if the food hasn’t been sold and it’s been expired?
turangan on
Honestly, if it’s going to be damaged out anyway, businesses aren’t losing shit by doing this. They’ve already paid for the product to be on the shelves. It did not sell. So it is now a loss. Give it away. The only reason retailers don’t want to do this is because they’re worried people will just hold out from buying because they think they might get what they need for free, but I don’t think this would actually happen enough to make an impact because what is left over is usually stuff people don’t want. Furthermore, the advent of AI should be leading to more intelligent, accurate purchasing decisions, resulting in minimal waste.
Limmmao on
How does it work in reality? Does the supermarket need to handle the logistics from the supermarket to the food banks?
Acumen_RJ on
Not the first country, the Chinese have vending machines for such tasks. China was the first.
G_yebba on
So, all I would have to do to help the needy is to avoid buying stuff that is near expiry?
Ok, deal me in
Impossible_War4488 on
Last month right before Christmas , there is a dollar store close to my apartment so I walk over there a lot , and I went in one day and a girl that works there was walking around kind of teary eyed almost crying and I asked her what’s wrong. She showed me in the back they had a huge stock of toys like crates filled with old toys from last year that they couldn’t put out onto the shelves. The company was making her destroy all the old toys to be thrown away because they couldn’t sell them for whatever policy reason and aren’t allowed to give them away. So she was back there destroying toys that could have been donated a week before Christmas because of company policy. It’s really fucked how policy and regulation forces such waste especially in situations where it’s so easy to see donating the stuff would have been the right thing to do.
425565 on
It’s a pity we need “force” to do nice things for our fellow humans..
BasKabelas on
Here in NL supermarkets work with food banks but the tricky thing is:
– It adds more cost than just throwing it away
– It adds risk in the form of people consuming expired food
Of course no one is inherrently against supermarkets cooperating with foodbanks, but forcing a company to donate to charitible causes doesn’t feel correct either.
MailSynth on
Meanwhile in the US we pour bleach on perfectly good food so homeless people can’t dumpster dive for it. Wild that “don’t waste food, feed hungry people” is somehow a revolutionary concept.
YourFaajhaa on
About damn time.
$3.8 in food waste last year just in USA.
MawsonAntarctica on
So, I bet that supermarkets will cut back on purchases to find the equilibrium?
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finally a law that values people over profit margins more countries should take notes
the UK, Luxembourg and I’m sure lots of other countries do this without benefit of a specific legislation.
The French law has been in place since 2020.
Its vile that they don’t do this already and it’s even more vile that they have been forced to do it. Why isn’t it the standard? Greedy, bloodsucking corporations that care about pieces of paper more than the life of another.
Damn I hope other countries do the same. Stores can end up wasting so much food.
rare France W
W France
I work for a large grocery store chain, managed the produce department for about a year and have worked in several other departments as well. The amount of perfectly good food we throw away daily is insane, my one store alone could probably keep every homeless person in my medium sized city fed with what we throw away. If a law like this were passed here there would be no hungry people in the US. And it wouldn’t cost the store a penny.
Let them eat (expired) cake bitches
Let them eat cake!
But no muffin stumps please.
In the US, as soon as someone got sick from eating something expired they would sue.
I worked for a local grocery store chain in the early 2000s and they would sell or give away dented cans of food. Some lady said that she got sick and sued the company. Even though the company was found not liable they were still out thousands of dollars in court costs. We had to start throwing everything away after that.
This needs to happen in the US!
This sounds good but what about if the food hasn’t been sold and it’s been expired?
Honestly, if it’s going to be damaged out anyway, businesses aren’t losing shit by doing this. They’ve already paid for the product to be on the shelves. It did not sell. So it is now a loss. Give it away. The only reason retailers don’t want to do this is because they’re worried people will just hold out from buying because they think they might get what they need for free, but I don’t think this would actually happen enough to make an impact because what is left over is usually stuff people don’t want. Furthermore, the advent of AI should be leading to more intelligent, accurate purchasing decisions, resulting in minimal waste.
How does it work in reality? Does the supermarket need to handle the logistics from the supermarket to the food banks?
Not the first country, the Chinese have vending machines for such tasks. China was the first.
So, all I would have to do to help the needy is to avoid buying stuff that is near expiry?
Ok, deal me in
Last month right before Christmas , there is a dollar store close to my apartment so I walk over there a lot , and I went in one day and a girl that works there was walking around kind of teary eyed almost crying and I asked her what’s wrong. She showed me in the back they had a huge stock of toys like crates filled with old toys from last year that they couldn’t put out onto the shelves. The company was making her destroy all the old toys to be thrown away because they couldn’t sell them for whatever policy reason and aren’t allowed to give them away. So she was back there destroying toys that could have been donated a week before Christmas because of company policy. It’s really fucked how policy and regulation forces such waste especially in situations where it’s so easy to see donating the stuff would have been the right thing to do.
It’s a pity we need “force” to do nice things for our fellow humans..
Here in NL supermarkets work with food banks but the tricky thing is:
– It adds more cost than just throwing it away
– It adds risk in the form of people consuming expired food
Of course no one is inherrently against supermarkets cooperating with foodbanks, but forcing a company to donate to charitible causes doesn’t feel correct either.
Meanwhile in the US we pour bleach on perfectly good food so homeless people can’t dumpster dive for it. Wild that “don’t waste food, feed hungry people” is somehow a revolutionary concept.
About damn time.
$3.8 in food waste last year just in USA.
So, I bet that supermarkets will cut back on purchases to find the equilibrium?