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Thread: Loblaws throwing out good food!!
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Fri, May 4th, 2012, 06:40 PM #46
I have a good friend who has worked at RCSS for 10+ years. He says that the store always calls the food bank and womens shelter to pick up expired food that is still perfectly fine for consumption. The organizations never bother to come and pick up the food, they say they dont have the gas, truck or anyone to pick it up. So they end up throwing away good food.
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Fri, May 4th, 2012, 07:16 PM #47
Sometimes when there is a sale on steak, there are some old steaks mixed up in the batch with green around the edges. Yuck. You have to check the best before dates. Even the reduced steaks at 30% or 50% off in another section looks better than this.
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Fri, May 4th, 2012, 07:19 PM #48
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I have a friend at Loblaws. They give the baked goods/bread to the food bank. The food bank in that area comes once a week to pick up from the bakery and then opens the food bank to distribute the bread the same afternoon. So the bread does not stay in the food bank for very long.
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Fri, May 4th, 2012, 07:37 PM #49
i guess mostly because of the risk of frivolous lawsuits and giving stuff away spoiling their business model. they should try to do something useful with all the expired stuff instead of just dumping it. maybe start a compost. it would be even better if they weren't so stingy with discounting expiring foods so someone can get some use out of it.
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Fri, May 4th, 2012, 08:32 PM #50
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Fri, May 4th, 2012, 10:46 PM #51
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Thu, May 10th, 2012, 04:49 PM #52
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I agree with you. It's so very wasteful.
On the other hand don't eat expired pecans. When they're shelled they go rancid pretty fast.It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
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Mon, Jun 11th, 2012, 06:21 AM #53
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My Maxi sells their produce and meat at quick sale. Every time I purchased it the meat was rancid and I had to return it right away. I NEVER buy quick sale items anymore. They even tried to sell Olay products from 2006. I was wondering why my moisturizer smelt bad.
I do not want to waste my money on rotten/rotting food. I do not want to get sick or have spoiled food.
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Tue, Jun 12th, 2012, 06:03 PM #54
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I worked at a save on for a brief time and during our orientation we toured the back area , we came to the dumpster and I looked in the one for produce etc and the amount of fruit and veggies was crazy , I got a really good look at it and their were strawberries etc that looked just fine , maybe they were getting a bit on the old side but in todays day and age that is pathetic to throw that food out when kids around Canada go hungry to bed each night .
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Tue, Jun 12th, 2012, 06:47 PM #55
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Tue, Jun 19th, 2012, 02:16 PM #56
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I used to work at a Home Decor store and most food items would be written off months before the expiry. It always broke my heart to throw garbage bags of food away. Whenever I would ask why, they would explain that it had something to do with liability issues.
Plus if we ever returned a pillow we had to slice a hole in it and it was thrown away. Obviously for hygiene issues, but I still didn't understand why they wouldn't donate them to shelters. If I was homeless or very poor I think I would take a "used once" pillow over the ground any day or nothing any day!
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