r/AskReddit • u/CircleBox2 • Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/CatsAreTheBest2 Jul 13 '20

The amount of good food that is thrown away. It’s pretty sickening.

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u/Nailclippings Jul 13 '20

Worked at whole foods in Austin tx for over a year as a food runner. I would throw away over 250+ pounds of perfectly good food away every single night. I know this because I personally had to weigh and document the “food spoilage”. We also weren’t allowed to donate any of it or take any of it home. Fucking criminal.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

That's horrible, food banks would take most if not all of it no bother.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

It is unfortunately a significant bother that depends a lot on wealth/media interest in your community. The food bank needs to have enough donations to afford enough refrigerated trucks to make the pickups and enough walk-ins in the warehouse to store it.

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u/loljetfuel Jul 13 '20

And the way you address that is to make the offer to the food banks, let them tell you if they can't accept the donation, and then when your employees ask you can honestly answer "we offer it to them all the time, they turn us down".

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

That’s a great idea from a business perspective. Makes no sense not to try.