I needed a loaf of bread for this week, well I went to our town Stewarts, because it is sometimes quick in and out, even thought I hate the place. Girl was ringing me out, and the trainee comes over with a dozen eggs, one egg was cracked, she tells him to write it down for a store credit, and throw it away! I said you throw the whole dozen away?? Kinda shocked, still 11 good eggs, and if cracked one wasent leaking, it's fine to eat. Girl say ya, you wouldn't believe the food we waste here! We can't even give old bread away to the farmers with cows. Well even more reason for me to hate the place, and no matter how convienient, I wont be spending a penny there anymore.
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- Thread starter JayinNY
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A week and a half of work for an old hen
Anonymous-0
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Usually not the stores themselves (owners)... It's the lawsuits that they'd get after someone took the cracked egg and claimed to be sich, moldy/old bread (even tho it was intended for cows/pigs)... Then the employee theft when bubba wants a coke or sammich, he just damages the package and writes it off......
Jimmy King
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I was having a hard time find a carton without broken eggs in it so I started changing good egg for bad. The store employee came along and said we (as in the store) could get in trouble for doing that as it is again the law.
Stephen Newell
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Don't blame the store. Part of it is the nanny state and part of it is employees would use it to steal. They would mix perfectly good stuff in with the giveaway stuff to get it out of the building and then pull out the good stuff for themselves.
James Howell
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Nancy and I were in WalMart several years ago after July 4th.
While waiting at the pharmacy counter we noticed an American flag in the trash can.
We asked why it was in the trash and the Walmart employee said "It was part of a display we took down after the holiday."
We asked if we could have the flag and the Walmart employee had to get approval from the supervisor to retrieve the flag from the trash.
Displayed that perfectly good American flag in the rear window of my Dodge 3500 for many years.
Sam Walton would turn over in his grave if he could see some of the "stuff" that goes on in his store.
While waiting at the pharmacy counter we noticed an American flag in the trash can.
We asked why it was in the trash and the Walmart employee said "It was part of a display we took down after the holiday."
We asked if we could have the flag and the Walmart employee had to get approval from the supervisor to retrieve the flag from the trash.
Displayed that perfectly good American flag in the rear window of my Dodge 3500 for many years.
Sam Walton would turn over in his grave if he could see some of the "stuff" that goes on in his store.
john in la
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You could build a house from the stuff one Home Depot throws away in a few months.
Billy Shafer
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I have done work for many companies. From Sears to Home Depot to all the major grocery stores in my state. All told me the same thing. The main reason they stopped giving stuff away. Was because of lawsuits.Even the Day old bread stores have shut down. To many people trying to make a buck off of the big companies.
A woman I work with used to work a for a Kroger grocery store, the "good" food that is thrown in the garbage is shocking. If there is a slight possibility of it being spoiled it is thrown away.
I guess we in America are too spoiled to eat day old bread. If you were hungry enough you would eat it.
I guess we in America are too spoiled to eat day old bread. If you were hungry enough you would eat it.
Anonymous-0
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Back in 1971, I worked in the produce department of a local grocery. Whenever we had lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, etc. with bad spots, we were instructed to cut out the bad spots and make salads.
Where do you think the chicken in the big fast-food chain restaurants' chicken pot pies comes from? It's from the leftover chicken from the day before...or at least it was 10 or so years ago when my wife and daughter worked for the local restaurant.
Where do you think the chicken in the big fast-food chain restaurants' chicken pot pies comes from? It's from the leftover chicken from the day before...or at least it was 10 or so years ago when my wife and daughter worked for the local restaurant.
larry@stinescorner
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my dad used to tell me when he grew up on the farm my grandmother cooked all the cracked eggs and pullet eggs so they could sell all the good ones. We in america waste all lot ,and it is sad,
Yes we would, i heard many storys from
My grandfather, and now my 81 year old father in law about the depression, when they had lines for bread and so on. It's to bad what this country has sunk too. I never thought to tell the lady remove the broken egg and I'll buy the rest! But I have my own chickens. Lol
My grandfather, and now my 81 year old father in law about the depression, when they had lines for bread and so on. It's to bad what this country has sunk too. I never thought to tell the lady remove the broken egg and I'll buy the rest! But I have my own chickens. Lol
Traditional Farmer
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State food inspection laws make them throw out the whole dozen if one is cracked because of possible contamination,crazy but thats Big Brother for you.
pat sublett
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I personally don't think it will be long untill that kind of waste stops. Hard times will take care of a lot of beauracy also.
Mark - IN.
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I'm not sure that works anymore. Always used to up to two loaves of bread ago. But, all of a sudden it didn't. Made a sandwich, bread was hard. So, next sandwich tried to nuke the pieces for 10 seconds, didn't work. Next day, tried 20 seconds, didn't work. I was going to throw the bread out on the lawn for birds, what the heck, but was afraid they might throw it back at the house and break a window or take someone's eye out or something.
Mark
Mark
Came across "Grade B" eggs in Safeway awhile back- asked an employee about them, and he said when a dozen has cracked/broken eggs, they have to put the rest of the carton in Grade B cartons. They are not past the pull date, and nothing wrong with them- I stop by in the AM when we need eggs, and watch for them- $1.39 a dozen, rather than $1.89 for Grade A.
Store is right across the street from my office, so not inconvenient to stop by at about 8 AM, after coffee at Mickey D's. Thats also the time when they slap the 50% off stickers on the fish that's on its pull date. I take it home and freeze it.
You can eat reasonably, if you have your wits about you.
Store is right across the street from my office, so not inconvenient to stop by at about 8 AM, after coffee at Mickey D's. Thats also the time when they slap the 50% off stickers on the fish that's on its pull date. I take it home and freeze it.
You can eat reasonably, if you have your wits about you.
Anonymous-0
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That"s the way to go,thanks to the freezer you can put a few more months onto that pull day.
Anonymous-0
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Have to be a LAW to prohibit that surely.
just another old geezer
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most places like that, their insurance company/ head office requires damaged food to be tossed. In this world of sue happy people, tossing a dozen eggs over one cracked one is way cheaper than having a lawsuit over someing claiming they were sickened by contaminated food
A friend, who drives a refuse truck, had new
work shoes one day.I remarked on them, and he showed me that they had no tongue. Sears cut the tongues out, and threw returns in the dumpster.
He said, sometimes they find returned Crapsman tools, and recycle them yet again!
work shoes one day.I remarked on them, and he showed me that they had no tongue. Sears cut the tongues out, and threw returns in the dumpster.
He said, sometimes they find returned Crapsman tools, and recycle them yet again!
You act as if this "waste" is a new thing. It has been going on for DECADES, but it was worse in the past than it is now.
We have better food handling practices so there's less damage.
We have better preservation (chemicals, refrigeration) so there's less spoilage.
Computerization has made it so stores can track how much of each item they sell. They only order what they expect to sell.
Thrown away food is thrown away income to a store. As things get tighter and tighter financially, the food industry is going to do everything they can to prevent waste.
We have better food handling practices so there's less damage.
We have better preservation (chemicals, refrigeration) so there's less spoilage.
Computerization has made it so stores can track how much of each item they sell. They only order what they expect to sell.
Thrown away food is thrown away income to a store. As things get tighter and tighter financially, the food industry is going to do everything they can to prevent waste.
If stores gave their expired food away, there would be no incentive to BUY the food.
Just wait until it expires, then go pick it up for free!
You KNOW deep down in your heart that it wouldn't be just the truly needy lining up for the free handouts. Every shameless kook and wackjob within driving distance would be standing outside the loading dock of the local supermarket on "pull day."
Any time you get a bunch of kooks and wackjobs looking for free handouts together, you KNOW they can't behave and get along like civilized people.
You KNOW that the ones that miss out on the freebies will be resentful. They may take it out on the people that got free food. They make take it out on YOU. Either way, you've now got a riot on your hands.
Who in their right mind would want THAT???? To hell with the lawsuits.
Just wait until it expires, then go pick it up for free!
You KNOW deep down in your heart that it wouldn't be just the truly needy lining up for the free handouts. Every shameless kook and wackjob within driving distance would be standing outside the loading dock of the local supermarket on "pull day."
Any time you get a bunch of kooks and wackjobs looking for free handouts together, you KNOW they can't behave and get along like civilized people.
You KNOW that the ones that miss out on the freebies will be resentful. They may take it out on the people that got free food. They make take it out on YOU. Either way, you've now got a riot on your hands.
Who in their right mind would want THAT???? To hell with the lawsuits.
Anonymous-0
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We have what I call second hand bread stores here.You can buy big trays of live stock feed for 3 bucks.Amazing how stupid people are.Farmer I fixed fence chargers for would have a pick up full of baked goods that were a day over the use before date on them.He always said take what you can use.Bread ,donuts, pastry.Its estimated that 25% of all food is throw away.Eggs that are over the date are fed to pigs here.The food waste I seen is sad.
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