The Dollar General convenience store in Mineral Point faced an unexpected closure over the weekend as all of its employees walked off their shifts and quit their positions.
My wife was a Dollar Gen, asst manager and she was accused of stealing for bringing home stuff that they were throwing in the dumpster. She quit on the spot.😊
@@gregoryhodge9452 My niece used to set the throw away stuff on the back dock. There was a homeless camp nearby. If anything was left in the morning, she'd put it in the dumpster, but she said that seldom happened.
The issue is if the item isn't on the list and it is donated, the recipient can sue if they " feel " harmed by the item ( like day old food ) . There is just too much liability there and you would do the same.
@bobroberts.....that's what I explained to my hubby. Couple years ago on Undercover Boss for 7-11 he wondered why they didn't donate the food for the day. Turns out they did for a long time but more recently someone got sick off a sandwich and sued therefore they stopped.
What exactly were they standing up for? It's not their property and it's not for them to make up their own policy. If they really didn't want whatever it was thrown away(Funny how The Press never asked them that) then they could have purchased the merchandise with their own money and then donated whatever it was. To me all they did was made themselves more unhirable for future employment.
@@compugasmYou’re not comprehending the point of the comment you responded to. Yes it was ONE store, but the comment states “imagine if ALL employees across America realized we have this power.” If ALL employees realized this, the whole American economy would change. Is this going to happen? Absolutely not. However employees like the one here in this video show us that working Americans do indeed have more power than they could possibly imagine. Even if it’s just one store.
@@anonymousbosch9265 you should divert some time and spend it on comprehension and communication. the person made a perfectly legit point and you want to disparage their intelligence and courage.
In the very early 2000's I was an assistant store manager for a pizza hut in NW Ohio. we had the pizza buffet m-f for lunch. At the end of every buffet we would store all of the un-eaten buffet food and take it to the local homeless shelter. We never asked corporate for permission and we never told them what we were doing.
When I was a poor starving college student 40 years ago I used to bring home leftover pizza from Pizza Hut buffet where I worked. I wouldnt have had food if it wasn’t for that pizza. To this day my husband can’t understand why I’m not a big fan of pizza. When that’s all you had to eat for weeks and months on end, it ruins it for you.
I worked at a Pizza Hut for 6 months, in 1999. When I started, all the extra pizzas each week (deliveries that couldn't be made, mess ups that we didn't eat, etc) were put in the walk-in, and at the end of the week, someone from a homeless shelter would come collect them. By the time I quit, the shelter had decided it didn't want to serve pizza anymore, as it was deemed "too unhealthy", so all those perfectly good pies just went in the trash. IDK about you, but if I was homeless and living in a shelter, I would look at a weekly pizza dinner as a real treat. And I wouldn't care that I was unhealthy. I'd just be glad I had food in my belly.
@@kencurtis2403 beats the hell outta me. I just know what I was told. But it does make you wonder. That job wasn't all bad, though. I mean, I met my husband there. So there is that, lol. 😊
I worked at a Dunkin donuts in New York once, where at the end of the day wed give usually 100 or so donuts out to the homeless, as per policy, until a homeless guy sued them over stale donuts, and won. Changed policy immediately, and the homeless man got a good chunk of money and ruined it for everyone else in the process. Now all those donuts go right in the dumpster.
We used to have a mill and bakery store here in town. for years they'd throw out "expired" product into a dumpster out back. It was perfectly fine for the most part, and the dumpster was never used for anything else, so it was clean and practically brand new. We dived that thing for years, getting all kinds of good stuff, until they eventually set up a system to donate all of it to local food distribution networks. That went on like that until the mill was closed and torn down down, and the bakery outlet store followed a few years later.
My son, 36, is fortunate enough to work for a hardware store that does allow him to bring it home. They also give him broken things, that he repairs and usually donates it himself to someone in need.
now you're going to be on tiktok every time you take out the trash. I've been filmed taking out trash by kids that think they're going to jump in and grab treasure. it's one of the reasons employees are okay with destroying the merch per policy.
Most companies are claiming to want to go green, yet this place is demanding they throw product in the garbage instead of giving to those in need and who could use it. Shame on the company! Good for the employees for taking a stand.
When I worked for Hot Topic (almost 20 years ago) they threw away clothes, bags, etc. I remembering asking about donating them locally and they said no. If it was found out we would didn't throw them away and donated them then we would be fired.
Giving away things for free just makes people even more lazy and let's be honest this stuff will end up in the hands of lazy people and illegal immigrants
That's because you don't understand business. Businesses are business to make . If they give the stuff away instead of throwing it out then no one will buy it. People will just wait until they give it away. Everything that they throw away is a loss write off of 100 percent of the product if they donate it they only get to claim 50 percent and if they give it away they don't get to claim nothing ( 0 percent )
Plus people get things for a lesser price or pick through the trash for free stuff and then try to return it to the store for cash. They throw tantrums in the store to embarrass the managers and get their own way. I worked at a higher priced store and they had to destroy items before throwing them away for this very reason. It isn’t always the corporation that’s at fault. Don’t forget the thieves and scammers that take advantage of everything including what corporations try to do for good.
@@ralphsnow2337 The employees are talking about donating goods to charitable organizations, not individual customers. Those companies can afford to claim 50%. And anyway, it's worth the great PR.
It's a matter of food. Saw a undercover boss episode from 7-11 where he wanted to know why they didn't donate the days food. They used to but after decades someone got a bad sandwich and got sick and sued so the gubberment told them to could no longer do it.
It's a small detail, but I like how the sign says how much they love their customers. Just a soft reminder that it's not the customers' fault and that the workers appreciated being able to serve them.
Throwing out stuff that could be used to benefit the less fortunate is a crime. Maybe if corporations realized that pricing their item reasonably in the first place, their product would move off the shelves and they wouldn’t have waste to begin with.
The same feeling was had when I worked for a Sam's Club. Every week, we'd count up how many entire cases of member's mark water we'd throw away just because they were missing one or two bottles. Thousands upon thousands of bottles of unopened water, thrown in the compactor, and we all, employees and members both, were forbidden from keeping it or giving it to folks that needed it because it was counted as a company loss. And that's just water. Food, clothing, hardware, tools, toiletries, hundreds of rolls of tp and paper towels, all tossed because of foolish, FOOLISH "company policy". Complete waste.
I used to work for Anheuser-Busch. They would dump pallets and pallets of beer if the color on the label was just a shade off. Honestly, I always thought nobody would care about that stuff anyways. I used to say that the bottling area was an alcoholic's worst nightmare, to see all that beer get dumped over a coloring problem on the label and you can't drink it.
@@crayonchomper1180 I would think so, but then again, you open a new issue: state control of alcohol sales. You would need a beer and wine license to sell it (different from manufacturing it). The state wants their tax money and license fees. They could give it away as they do beer giveaways for events, but they don't. Now, if it was back when my dad started with the company, they could just put it in commercial refrigerators and people could drink it on their break. Back then (mid 80s), you could consume alcohol so long as you were on your scheduled break. Employees were happy and the local police were happy for all that revenue for DUIs (catch them as they were exiting the parking lot, according to my dad.) MADD and some politicians didn't like that policy, so the brewery had to put an end to it.
This is nothing new. I worked at Dillards department store, which is a high-end department store, I worked in the bed and bath department. We would get complete bedding collections returned because one piece of the set was a bit damaged. These sets could be anywhere from $200-$800. We would have to cut a big hole in every piece and put them in the dumpster. We were told this was so that no one could return the items for a refund. I was disgusted with this policy, but had to do it. This isn’t just Dillards, or Dollar Stores, this is every retail outlet has a policy like this.
@@donotsupportterroristgroups I agree, the items should be marked in some way to avoid a scam. I saw many perfectly good comforters , blankets, towels, all being just thrown away. The defect would be minor from the manufacturer, and the hole or cutting would be minor, but it would still get just tossed in the garbage.
That's messed up. There was a Dollar General near where I live in Michigan. We lost power and it was in a small town and they were told to throw everything away in the freezer section and refrigerator instead of reaching out and giving it away. I mean. The town was small enough and Facebook was active.People could have got there quick enough to save the food
Yes, and if one person decided to sue DG for making her sick with bad food, DG could lose thousands or millions of dollars. There is no upside for DG. Can't really blame them. It's the world we live in.
My local DG said the highest paying position was Manager and they would be hard pressed to convince the owner to shell out $9/hour even then 🚮…went straight to target for $18/hr the next week. That DG is closed now
That is a great reason to always shop Mom&Pop shop locally owned and operated. We can't cut corporate out completely but we can shut them way down. Big Corp don't care about no one only about the money and they don't care how they get it!!! Let's make America Great again and support small locally owned businesses and products that are truly made in America
Most people I know who preach shopping at mom and pop stores can be found loading up their carts at Wal Mart or Costco. The vast majority of people will always shop where they can find the best prices. "Big Corp." and "Green Friendly" are talking points that very few Americans even care about.
Most didn't survive covid. Most of the small businesses are service-centric but the unique and eclectic are not readily replicated, even on the same plot. DG had no problem reopening the store with staff who had a particular rule drilled into them during training. There's a lesson for all to see. Gripe all you like about corporate greed, I'll probably agree with you. But a corporation is a machine by design. A unique cultural model in many cases. DG went the same way the Ben Franklin stores did way back when. Remember when Wal-Mart sold American-made products? How long does a washing machine work? Americans are a nation of walking ATMs.
My nephew used to work for a coffee chain and he said the amount of food they had leftover every night was baffling. They were not allowed to give any of it to charity. (Despite there being a very reputable local charity about 5 minutes away.) Corporate policy was to throw it all in the garbage. However, they had a branch manager with a heart, and he would pretend not to notice when the staff filled up their backpacks each night with the leftovers.
@@ilyarepin7750 If you were the exec you'd think twice. I'm not a lawyer. Will a waiver be bulletproof? Maybe there's exceptions. You wanna lose your job and your pension if you turn out to be wrong making these decisions? Are you going to hire a law firm to develop this mechanism? I'm not giving them excuses, just telling you their process.
I agree completely that corporations waste shameful amounts of product. However, there is another, very real issue with allowing employees to use their discretion when marking out product...SOME employees then believe they can take anything. I worked for a high end housewares store, and I witnessed employees intentionally damaging a product so it would be marked out and they took a home as it was slated for the trash. Not every employee has the best intentions.
Yes they can just as if they wrote it off as a loss, but the issue comes from donating an item and whoever you donated to decided to sue you for whatever reason. Donate a bike and it fell apart, thats on you, but if you sold that bike than it would be on the manufacturer. So companies are able to be sued for a lot more things by donating than just selling outright. Even if they win the lawsuits, they still end up having to pay lawyer fee's and there are laws preventing large companies for going after small individuals for lawyer/court costs. So each lawsuit, no matter if they win or not, is losing them money. So for companies, they'd lose less money by just throwing the item away rather than donating it.
These employees are REAL HUMAN BEINGS. We need more people like them to stand up for what's right and stop starvation and homelessness. The resources are all here already- greed is the only thing stopping it.
Yeah really something for sure. Must be wealthy just working for the enjoyment. I wish I could walk off my job because it's below zero or raining or I didn't like the boss hurting my feelings.
I used to dumpster dive at grocery stores and the amount of good usable stuff they threw away was mind boggling. I only quit when the town I live in passed an ordinance making it illegal to take anything out of a dumpster, despite a national law protecting stores in case food from a dumpster makes anyone sick. Sad fact is, stores HATE anyone getting anything for free and want it all to be dumped in landfills.
Most stores actually dump chemicals on the food too. I dumped my bosses coffee on his head and walked out of a job once because my boss was bragging about it, hoping he would "teach the bums a lesson" Left him by himself (I was the only guy who hadn't quit yet)
Dollars General has cameras all over, and the supervisor there got a clipboard to count how many are counted as "damaged goods", stolen, opened, missing, ect, ect all so the owner of Dollar General can collect A BIG INSURANCE CHECK. As for the trash in the dumpster, you may very well be right. They hate someone getting free stuff, when legally, and by definition, it's just trash by now!! As soon as it enters, it's trash!! 😳😠
I worked at a chain grocery store for 18 years and we threw away NOTHING that was not out of date or otherwise unsellable. We repacked damaged-package items for return to the distribution center and some further sale or donation.
I am so glad that this is happening more often. Employees are taking some control and deciding to quit, enmasse, to make a point. It’s the closest thing to collective bargaining they can do. It might make it better for the next round of people that the company hires. I love hearing this. These corporations are absolutely ridiculous and are out of control.
@@gingermcgarvey7773 If someone has the cahonies to organize, lead and wage a campaign against the corporation, they have great potential for being self-starting self employed people. I would do that!
@@oleradiodudea.m.4735So you don't want to hire people who care and have principles? You are saying a lot about yourself in very few words that isn't exactly glowing.
So grateful for the Walmart I used to work at. In the bakery, we could eat or take home any food that was damaged or past its expiration date (ie clearance bakery goods). Unless the packaging was damaged (ie already open), we rarely threw anything away. Sometimes our prepackaged cakes would be damaged (ie smeared frosting, broken pies, etc.) right out of the box. We couldn’t sell it, so we’d slice it, took our pieces, and brought it to the break room for everyone else. We had to use a special device and login to mark items as expired or damaged. There were cameras in the bakery too, so no one could abuse the system. The deli was had a similar situation, but their policy for food was stricter than ours.
Anyone that works a DG should be well aware of the fact that DG don't take care of their employees at all! DG is the epitome of "Over worked, under paid, not appreciated". The reason thy pop up everywhere is NOT because they are such a good company to work for because they aren't! But because the local "Politicians" get paid well to let them in the community!
"Local politicians" don't get kickbacks to let DG in. That's hilarious. Like any business, they buy a spot of land and put a building on it and people shop there. DG was uncannily good at buying land in small, rural hick towns that the big box stores ignored, and becoming de facto monopolies in poverty belt regions.
No its a tax write off both ways but they are avoiding a law suit if they throw it in the trash. If it is food items and someone gets sick they can sue them. This happens all over the US.
I work at dollar general and we do not throw out anything unless it is damaged or of course expired. This does not happen in Wisconsin and of course we have to much stuff like paper towels and toilet paper overstocked but nothing like food would ever get thrown away because it can’t be donationed.
Most , if not all Dollar General and Family dollar stores are exactly like this !! Slave labor is the best description of the labor force there . Corporate will not change , they just keep hiring ..
30 million "undocumented invaders" will be happy to do the job. I wonder if they were going to be fired for violating company policy? Kick backs from the donations maybe?
Nearly slave labor status is the conservative-capitalist way of life and business. The owners and C-LEVEL staff do not consider those at the bottom rungs of the economic scale as people with actual lives.
Dollar general near me register is always broken and they make customers use self checkout and lines are always long. They need to get their sh** fixed.
I used to work for Family Dollar (Dollar General and Dollar Tree are owned by the same company). Terrible, atrocious company. You are disposable garbage to this company. You're expected to due everything with no staff. You have to run around and stock shelves and ring people out at the same time. You're also expected to watch the store constantly for theft. A list of things that can get you written up and eventually fired: -If theft is too high -If you have too many returns -If you have to void too many items off of an order (aka someone says, never-mind I don't want this anymore). -If you have to change the price of an item because the sale didn't come up on the POS software (thank you for not updating software) Not getting things on the shelf in their allotted time frame (aka 3 days) You don't really have a lot of control over inventory. They send you what you get. Even if they send you overstock of one thing no one wants and never send you something people are literally demanding and asking about. Even if you order it constantly. When I worked there you couldn't get a full time hours and because of that you had: No sick days No vacation days No health insurance No benefits Don't even get me started on any kind of medical injury or bereavement. You will basically lose your job. Their employment model is all sorts of f-cked up. Those items you get there are cheap for a reason. They really cut down on labor costs.
I was a store manager for dollar general. It’s horrible. You aren’t even given enough hours to employ enough people so you can get the products out on the shelves. That’s why you see a lot of push carts blocking the isles. It’s a horrible company
Well I DID!! ME & MY WIFE!! they are a shit company to work for and we did the same shit, walked out!!. We had a lazy ass manager who would come in for 2-3 hours and try to make my wife do HER job. And then got mad because she asked my wife to count her drawer or something to that effect and my wife told her nicely but firmly NO. They TREAT THEIR EMPLOYEES LIKE SHIT!! They expected us to do so much for such little pay. Literally EVERYONE I WORKED WITH hated that job and were on their way out the door. It was one guy in management that was cool named Andrew i think. Im pretty sure he was like 6 hours from leaving his wife for a man because im like almost certain he was closeted gay. I don’t got no problem with gay people, but bruh just be you lol
I have one near me that has the best employees, always friendly and helpful and another one that just opened up closer to me. Its clean, employees are friendly and I have no problems shopping there..
Every Dollar General I have ever been into is barely staffed. I have had to go hunting for employees in the BACK of the store!! None of them seem to be happy with life and I don't blame them.
That's the best place to steal from. That's how I keep making ends meet. I just sneak into DG's and take a few things. I usally make $100 to $200 / day for 30 minutes of work.
Im a truck driver who delivers food products. The amount of things I throw away are ridiculous. They'll reject about 50 boxes of potato chips because ONE box was slightly open and then I have to discard of them all! America is VERY wasteful.
I assume you've read the 'Feeding America' donation guidelines? Also, you do realize it does 'cost' to donate? That may require prepacking or reboxing, cold storage and transportation. I also assume you've checked out the part where it says - providing expired products could result in legal challenges? This has more to do with lawyers and people suing companies over donated products.
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This is no different than car dealerships auctioning new cars for 50 percent less to the auctions rather then sell it to a customer at that same price. Big corporations run this country, lobbyist, bribes, and gifts make them untouchable.
There must be something in the tax code that encourages these things. To auction off a car at 50% of the selling price they charged you for it yesterday. To throw things in that dumpster rather than donate them, just because the label is smeared or the cap leaks. Who reads the labels? Employees always dumpster dive. In 45 years I never saw anything wrong with it.
It is completely different. That is something being sold at a different price. Nothing is getting thrown out. This is usable items being thrown out and adding to our landfill problems when they could be given to someone in need.
@@valerierodgeryou first have to get changes in liability laws when donating expired food items. That is the reason these corporations don’t donate, they are worried that someone could get sick from the items and then sue them. There are also laws that prevent the sales of expired food, so the government would also go after the corporations with some kind of fine. And food banks and soup kitchens don’t take expired items, for the same reasons corporations don’t donate them.
Really Stood up for their Collective Beliefs there! I agree too... Bravo to All of Them for this❤, Hopefully it's gonna get the right persons attention.
When I was 19(40 now), I worked at the Costco food court and every night, every pizza that was ordered and made that people never came back for, we had to throw WHOLE pizzas away, no exceptions, which is how I got fired, for taking 4 'garbage' pizzas.
The Dollar General in my community opened about 2 years ago. The checkout equipment is often broken---took a whole year before the self-checkout was functional, about 6 months before more than one station worked. The people who work there are the nicest, most helpful you could imagine---you'd think you were a wealthy movie star shopping at an exclusive Beverly Hills boutique, the way they treat you. But it's like management hasn't the faintest notion how to properly run a retail business---total cluelessness. The employees DO deserve better!
I was a manager at Walmart and we threw enough Deli and "expired" food away every night to feed a small army. Walmart did donate some stuff but had to throw all the rest away due to fear of unforeseen lawsuits.
Yes, because of the liability and insurance companies, if they donate food that may have been sitting around too long and someone gets sick or worse, the first one to get the lawsuit will be the store that donated the food- these days its INEVITABLE.
Other companies do this too, unfortunately. I once asked the manager at the local Panera Bread to donate the food they throw away every night to one of the local food banks or shelters. I even told her I would come get the food myself every night. She told me it was against their corporate policy. So, every night after they close, all of the perfectly good food that's left is thrown directly into their dumpster. AWESOME COMPANY!
My relative has worked for Panera for many years. They used to be great about donating leftovers to charity. They would also let employees take home leftovers at the end of the night. They have been bought out by a new woke company who cut benefits and does not allow employees to take home leftovers.
Lol, I work part time at an Amazon warehouse and every time I go in there I wonder what little thing might end the partnership that particular shift. Could be something as stupid as a stopped conveyer belt or asking me to remove my earbuds which I refuse to do.
Home Depot is like that. They will ZEMA (mark down to 0 and dumpster) perfectly good merchandise because it is no longer stocked or been on the clearance shelves past the appointed time. Worse, employees have been terminated because they took something out of the dumpster that they really needed or could use.
Isn't that illegal? Taking stuff from a dumpster for recycling/reuse is legal. Parking lots are open to the public, so there's not even a trespassing charge.
@@pathfinderlight Something doesn't have to be illegal for the company to fire someone over it. It just has to violate company policy. But also, a lot of parking lots are private property - probably most. So the store has some say in what you can do there.
@@ironhell813 In MOST states, dumpster diving is perfectly fine and legal unless the company has their dumpsters locked or in a "no trespassing" area. Funny enough, about 90% of companies don't lock their dumpsters OR or them in "no trespassing" locations.
@@PhunkieZero yeah I doubt that the dumpsters have locks for a reason, they constitute private property just as if it was a shed or any other locked container. It’s no legal if it’s on private property or it’s locked.
I'm glad somebody has finally addressed this problem. Every retail store is so wasteful and throws away so much stuff that people can use. They are absolutely right, these stores could be helping the community but instead they are padding their own Pockets well destroying useful products that people need.
Good for you! You have a conscious that your corporate office does not. YOU are great people who care for your community which your corporate office does not. Being right and doing right are two different things. Thank God you all did the right when corporate would not.
So many restaurants and business do this. I'm glad these girls are actually standing up to it. There is so much waste out in the world that could help people in need.
I'm glad to see these people stand up for their community and against one of the worst companies ever. I worked at Dollar general for a few months several years ago. They left me by myself there once on a truck day. I told all the customers that "our systems were down" . When the last customer walked out put all the tills in the safe, then I locked up the store and drove home. I made them come get the keys from me. I refused to step foot in their stores ever again. It's a horrible company they don't give a rat's ass about their employees they don't care at all.
Same holds true for most of these "discount" stores...Big Lots could care less about their employees, don't appreciate the good loyal ones. They know they can hire another one at minimum wage..but always cutting hours, asking for donations for their own corporate charities and spending money on corporate issues. Companies need to take care and listen to their employees. Paying corp execs 5 mil a year and people who've been these 10+yrs $13. Take care and best to you..❤
Until people stop contributing to capitalism will it finally cease and hopefully change into something better. We need to be the change we want to see.
This 'community' has FAR deeper issues that the Dollar General. Check Google maps...the DG was the ONLY 'grocery store' in this pissant little town. If your town's only store is a DG, then your town sucks ass.
you go to a store that sells things for a dollar! How many employees do you think they can afford? Would you rather they raise prices and have more cashiers?
@@timsmith3969 maybe they should be paid appropriately so they would be incentivized to work harder. imagine being over worked and underpaid. why would we care. it’s not hard to run a business. american business owners and corporations alike are just not good at not being dick heads in terms of pay distribution.
@@timsmith3969dollar general doesn't sell things for a dollar, infact there pretty overpriced and not one of the cheaper places to go through making it all the more disgusting on how they treat their staff.
I had a complaint about DG and called the regional manager’s phone and got a voice mail that said she would return my call. I’m still waiting, that was four years ago.
Last Christmas, I was getting rung up for my items at a dollar general,most employers,had their hours cut, during Christmas time,one lady just started balling she went to 40 hours of work to 12 hours of work in a week. She had 3 small children. I stopped going there after that. That place is a crap hole.
@@panicfever1277 I agree they were going to hire me back in my 20 's full time,then said I'd only work 12 hours a week,so,I never worked for them, thankfully.
I worked at Walmart once and this older lady started crying one day. She told me she'd worked there 40 years and they cut her down to 1 day a week because they wanted her to retire and she'd refused. I quit a couple months after that. These corporations have people over a barrel these days. It's not like back in the old days when there were all these manufacturing jobs that treated their employees right even if you just had a GED. Those jobs are gone.
Many years ago I worked at our local Landfill. When trash came in from department stores it amazed us at the landfill on the amount of usable items were among the trash. The stores write it off as a loss and we the public pay for it in their tax deductions,
a company's definition with usable is usually defined by lawyers or accountants, trying to donate what you'd think is still usable could put the company in big liability.
I used to work in a craft store. We had boxed items returned with the lids not closed. Some employees "damaged out" these items (this is called "shrink" and affects the store's bottom line), instead of just closing the lid. Other examples could be an item in a bag and the bag was cut open with scissors, therefore also "damaged out" as unsellable instead of just taping a small tear on a bag, or two items together simply not put back in the box and "damaging out" the whole set instead of just putting the items BACK IN THE BOX. The acceptable waste was astonishing.
Those people should be happy that someone hired them. Doesn't matter how poorly you're treated at work or how "immoral" the policies are. Be thankful that someone didn't care about the font on your resume or the margins on it. Be thankful that someone is paying you.
Throw stuff away? I had to sign a NDA at a place I worked for 10 years that sold so much expired food the fact that No one died from the combination of poor food practice, and cross contamination is a miracle.
I work at an Aldi's. Yes, we donate and throw away food...mostly bad produce. We donate dented cans, crushed boxes, opened packages. Still edible, but nothing a customer would buy. Are we supposed to just let this stuff clog up the shelves?
I have worked at both KFC and Popeyes where the rule was to throw away the food at the end of the night. We were not allowed to take it home because the company thought the employees would cook more food just to be able to take home. As manager I let the employees buy the leftovers at cost, but my district manager did not like this. I told them that I told the employees what to make and if they made something without my approval we would stop. We had the best food cost numbers in the district and the employees got to eat for fairly cheap. Win/win
I have seen huge skips/dumpsters filled with brand new boots/shoes/jackets/tents/all kinds of camping equipment from stoves to sleeping bags and outdoor clothing - but SLASHED WITH A RAZOR to make it totally unusable - this was in London at a well known clothing and camping outlet…there was literally many thousands of pounds/dollars worth of stuff that they chucked away for their “new line” and wouldn’t give away to those who needed it.
As a Walgreens employee were also suppose to donate unsellable (but still usable/consumable) products but all the store I've worked in always seem to just throw them away unless they're hazardous materials. It's a shame that this is the norm.
It's not meant to survive off of. 🗣 that's why it's called minimum wage H.E.L.L.O What part you do not understand, the 3 Ms 2 I's 1 n and 1 u. In minimum.
Only affects these rural backwater towns though. Why? Because DG is the ONLY 'grocery store' within 50 miles. Check the map! Where on earth do these folks get fresh produce?? They don't. And they are mostly obese and unhealthy as a result. Bigger story here.
@@tjsogmc LOL there are precisely ZERO immigrants in Mineral Point, WI. There isn't even another grocery store or ANYPLACE to buy a tomato. rural rubes
Walmart is the same way. I once was tasked with throwing away a lot of clothing (mostly women's underwear and children's clothing) and asked if we could donate it to a local charity. I was told no and ordered to put it in the trash compacter.
It's not just the companies, many states and cities place onerous restrictions on what can be given to the poor. For instance, most places outlaw people making food in their homes, and giving to the poor. Barbers have been arrested for going into parks and homeless encampments, and giving free haircuts and shaves. All in the name of protecting public health of course.
Get a load of @@dcg590who thinks their opinion matters. Probably thinks my tax dollars should fund something they think is important too. So entitled... 🤮
@@dcg590they really don't have much of a choice. most of the time, dollar general stores are the only establishments within miles and/or the only non-fast food. Kinda weird that you're siding with a corporation who consistently doesn't give a shit about humans instead of the community members trying to make a living.
There is a Dollar General store in another town that is like 6 miles away from my home. Found out our small town of like 900 people will be getting an Dollar General store and should be open sometime in Nov 2024. Least from what I heard they should be starting to build the store sometime in May/June of this year. To be honest I like the idea of having an Dollar General store here in our small town. Currently if you need anything say like milk & bread it's like 6 miles one way to a store in order to get it. Least by having a Dollar General in our small town it will be nice when we need stuff like milk, bread, over counter meds. I know where they will be building the Dollar General in our small town as the area is already marked with markers.
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I worked at Aldi for three years and they threw away so much product. I wanted to donate the items to a food bank. They didn't want to because it was a "health code violation". These are the same people who tried to force me to hand pick all the moldy strawberries from their containers so we can sell the rest.
@@crowdnine878 not expired items. Food banks and other charitable organizations won’t take expired food items because of the liability issue, and as the OP said, health codes.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68 go to a food bank and look at the dates. Especially bread and canned goods. Even boxed things such as hamburger helper and Lipton/ Knorr products.
If I worked at a grocery store it would be my super hero duty to hoard as much as I can in my tote bag every night of any foods being thrown out and give it to my neighbors👏🤲🦸♀️ ugh if only😩
I agree I used to work there and they do not pay. I was making 729 an hour part-time and they did not allow you time off for any reason on truck day. You were fired if you did not show up on truck day…. That was whether you had a sick kid that was whether you had a bad back that was whether you had any legitimate reason it did not matter you better show up on truck day.
There are states that have higher minimum wages and state mandated personal time off. You (or anyone else that's unhappy) could move to one of those states.
@@gingermcgarvey7773 Try Minnesota. They have higher pay scales for workers, allowances for time off that are publicly mandated and generous social programs.
EVERY STORE, of ANY franchise, throws away a criminal amount of perfectly good items. Whats worse is, I used to go dumpster diving behind stores like circuit city, office max etc. and find TONS of good stuff, but now they purposely destroy stuff before throwing it in the dumpsters. WHY? An example, we found 2 perfectly good, high dollar, massaging leather office chairs, that they intentionally slice up like crazy with razors, just to destroy them. Ridiculous! We stopped wasting our time soon after because all stores started doing stuff like that.
I use to work for a bookstore before it went out of business. If all the authors who's books we stocked knew what was done with the ones that didn't sell, they'd weep bitter tears, especially children books.
I knew a person who worked at a discount store similar to a dollar store back in the early 1990's. He showed up to work to discover the previous shift never came in that day. The customers were angry, the store was a mess, and he couldn't reach his boss for assistance. So, he took all the money from the cash registers as his final paycheck and left. He left the lights on and the doors unlocked. Then he just left. It was several hours before someone called the cops to report the store was open but abandoned by the employees. I'd have liked to see the boss's reaction when the cops finally reached him.
When I used to work for Barne's N Noble, the cafe would date all the food they put out for sale. After so many days beyond the date it's put out (I think it was 3 days) the food was to be thrown out. Now, sandwiches or anything with meat, I can understand, be we were also throwing out pastry and baked goods. Not donating it, but dumping it in a trash bag and then throwing that bag into the dumpster. I asked why it wasn't just being donated to a shelter. The response was, it was corporate policy. Later on, I worked for Columbia Sports. A retail company that promotes outdoor adventure by selling outdoor travel gear and clothing. All of the plastic hangars that are in excess, they also threw those into a plastic bag and tossed that in the dumpster. I'm talking 3-4 trash bins of plastic hangers that are going into the landfill, every week. I asked the manager why that wasn't just being recycled or donated to a thrift store. The response was, "it's just not cost effective."
@@terryowen6759 correct. But, the principle of the story here is that all ya gotta do is SCRATCH off the corp./company name and DONATE it! Pretty sure you STILL get a TAX BREAK, which is probably not as lucrative as "writing product off as a loss!. It's still a greedy, avaricious, money grubbing thing to do.
@@timg2973Sued for WHAT? That the walking stick will "break?" No... How DARE someone get anything in today's world without paying for the CEO and stockholders' 52nd vacation home!
@@rgaritothere are contracts between the owner/manufacture and retailers. in those contracts often say you can not give it out for free. also there could be a silent recall on an item. you don;t see the bigger picture most people don't. it could also be labeled a medical device and other laws surrounding it.
Same when working in other places and during the end of workweek we would save FRONT COVERS OF NEWSPAPERS that were NOT SOLD and THROW OUT BULK OF NEWSPAPERS INSIDES and the store would sort of be """reimburssed""" or something like that so I simply pulled out ONE NEWSPAPER fron the pile I TIED UP I missed reading during that week and the MANAGER (NOT OWNER) grabbed it from me and yelled """WE DON,T DO THAT IT,S REFUSE YOUR AN EMPLOYEE NEXT TIME BUY YOUR OWN!!!""" WOW!!! after all the customers I personally BROUGHT INTO THE STORE those BIG COMPANY STORES never remember any good thing WE DO FOR THEM so DO NOT EXPECT ANY speech such as== """THANKS FOR ALL YOU,VE DONE FOR US AND OH BY THE WAY TAKE THAT DISCARDED NEWSPAPER YOU MISSED A FEW DAYS BACK AND TAKE IT HOME"""
And who have no idea why those policies are in place. It isn’t because these big corporations are evil, like many think, but because they can be liable if someone gets sick or dies from expired food items. There is also the risk of dishonest employees hiding items until they expire and taking the items home for themselves. I would imagine that a lot of the people that they were “donating” to were friends and family. Food banks don’t take expired goods, nor do other charitable organizations. So just who were they donating the items to?
"Ok, I've thrown out all that stuff that's perfectly usable in the dumpster corporate." ☎️ "Yeah Bob, dumpster is full come get the good stuff. We're going to make a ton on Mercari sellling it!"
