Bath & Body Works Employee EXPOSES What They Do, Goes Viral on TikTok 

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I really love watching your videos but this is spreading wrong information

@@romig3795 explain..

That’s cool to know. I love Trader Joe’s ❤

Other establishment should do this as well, instead of wasting food and other things by throwing it out. Love u Traders Joe’s ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I went to our local food bank ran by a church here.. Everything I got was Trader Joe's and it was all still in date.

Me and my mom went to trader Joe's today and we were a little disappointed because my mom can't have soy so we went there for the soy free chocolate she saw somewhere and we didn't find it😔but i did get a large coffee cake from there😃

Yes! And lots of places are nice and will give you leftovers if you ask, some donate to soup kitchens too. Just be discreet and don't let anyone hear you ask or see you take things away or you'll create a monster or get a nice person fired.

May i ask how i uh hunt for garbage?

@@eloarchclips5971. go find dumpster 2. Put on gloves 3. Jump in dumpster 4. Move around and find stuff. Boom you went dumpster diving

@@Czar33n4 ah lemme go to dumpster and find poop water and junk, I'm asking which dumpsters to search

"Properly hunt"

@@eloarchclips597 *insert wheezing meme*

That’s sad asf

This makes me want to go to my pet I and dive.

That's just drawing the manager of the store should be put in jail

I don’t understand how the workers could do such a thing? If I worked there I’d take the animal home myself or I’d give the pet to a loving home. I’d risk my job there before throwing a live animal in the trash.

You forget petco probably has pet mill pets and you could save them but they gonna be worst then a pound puppy etc.

Ex Dunkin employee here also!! Whenever people were coming within the last few minutes, I’d sneakily give away a few extra things, because they were about to be thrown out, or I’d tell the homeless to meet me by the dumpster where the camera couldn’t see, and just conveniently have meats and and stuff that I’d just cooked ready for them

I didn’t wanna have them dig through our dumpster, so I’d make sure I could hand it to them without them getting in that nasty heckin’ dumpster

I'm no longer buying from Dunkin Donuts....scumbags.

@@ducklingwinchester909 where I worked we didn't throw the trash in a dumpster so that was a good thing we would put the darbage bags out front on the curb and the trash men picks it up like every other day or so. So it was easy for the homeless to just get the bag we marked that had the food in it. I commend you for also giving the homeless good tho !

@@kristineill2378 it's not only dunkin it's all places that serve food that do it. Along with grocery stores to and even clothing stories trash good clothes and shoes to. Basically anywhere you shop you can find a dumpster behind the store filled with perfectly good merch.

Yes but that’s also going to cause problems. If it’s free, most likely owners who will buy cheap food, toys and small cages for the animal will get it

@@lovesasusaku thats still better than dumping them🤷‍♀️

@@lovesasusaku I wish they would just donate animals to rescues or shelters

@@Ohnortheconsensation or donate them to be therapy animals at hospitals, foster cares, etc.

@@lovesasusaku If they're buying from a petstore in the first place, they'll still be in the same position. No responsible pet owner gets their pets from a mill like PetSmart or Petco, it wouldn't make a difference.

say it with me THIS IS ANIMAL ABUSE

I makes me sick that unwanted animals are dumped like that instead of being surrendered to a animal rescue. Both are free and one means that the animals will have a new lease at life.

@@tac3874 r/iamatotalpieceofsh*t

@@lotaloves4969 sadly there’s a lack of rescues for exotic pets. many shelters just take cats and dogs. Most exotic rescues are foster based. (people just keep them in their house) and sometimes they have waiting lists for surrendering that lasts months. reason for this people get exotic pets from pet stores without even thinking about adopting. It’s still no excuse to throw animals in the trash but makes sense from a business stand point. pet stores treat animals like novelty items and laws don’t protect exotics so people can do whatever they want

Ugh. This information makes me want to start searching through pet store dumpsters to look for these poor babies. Y’know what, I think I really should 🤔

capitalism

Near foods. They’re putting them in the right place. Shouldn’t be in our bodies. Only fresh and or Whole Foods, chem-free

Yay capitalism

Umhmm...

@@chioma3100and Whole Foods will literally cost u an arm and a leg and a couple organs

There is no such thing as unwanted pets. ever. these stores will try to sell any animal they have. and Petco even has a "wellness room" for animals that arent doing well to try and nurse them back to health.

@@romig3795 then explain us why they throw away living animals

I’m sorry for your loss :(

@@aduckofsomesort that’s still not a good reason to just trash them out as if they were objects. Maybe they should just send them to an animal shelter instead? i’m not saying that an animal shelter would be the perfect option but it’s way better than putting them into trashbags and throwing them away. They are living animals. They can feel stuff just like us. Do i even need to explain this?

@@imsointohorsemeat shelters aren’t any better. shelters euthanize the animals after a certain period of time if they don’t get adopted or if the animals aggression doesn’t resolve within a few days.

I dumpster dive and I can tell you it’s not usually because of a recall that something gets tossed. Most produce I find is packaged-bags of apples, oranges, peppers, onions, or potatoes or cartons of strawberries etc. usually you will find one or two in the bag that has gone bad so the store throws out the entire bag. This has consistently been the case for the four years I have been diving.

@@Sullivanin many fruits are not safe to eat if they are in the same bag as one that has gone bad tho, even if they look fine

@@mariakan1598 one bad fruit can make the other gone bad faster before it arrive at the costumer hands but these diver ate faster lol. Just be careful with wet food like rice and meat even though it was a frozen package food.

@d b does not throwing away something you paid for and getting something from the trash that could be contaminated with God knows what sound the same to you? To answer your question , had I paid for a whole bag of something I would probably not be throwing it away, I would discard the nearby potatoes and the rotten one. I would not pick up something rotten from the trash tho. If you think this is privilege, sure. Generally almost everyone is privileged depending who you ask.

@d b It's the same as bread. If one slice gets mold, it's better to throw all the slices out cause it's not always visible in the first stages. I've tangerines catch mold from ONE tangerine with small mold spots in 2 days.

Maybe show this video to your family. I used to dumpster dive with my mom as a child, I was her lookout.

Im Sorry. I Understand. But I Wouldn't Get the Food from Dumpsters. It Might Be Expired or Contaminated!! Just NO!!

@@LeticiaSarabia-yb8dm Not everyone has that choice, I was a homeless teen and had to live off of whatever I could find. There are ways to know which foods are safest, and what to look out for. You can probably find ppl/groups that share such information online now days. So while there is some risks, you can do it safely. Ppl get sick from food they pay for at restaurants and grocery stores all the time. Also they are made to throw away perfectly good food for various reasons, many foods are good for a long time after their lable dates but legally have to be pulled off shelves as soon as it passes that date. In many things like canned foods those dates are just there so that ppl will have to buy more, I have eaten cans of food that were 20 years past their use by date...and the only issue was that the taste wasn't so great after that long. Eggs can last for months, longer if they are farm fresh and unwashed. It really depends on the food and how it's packaged...also outside temperatures.

EXACTLY!!!

You be surprised how hard it is to donate food. I've tried on several occasions. Fresh watermelons, cases of ice cream, grapes, etc... straight off a delivery truck. The reciever states overage, misloaded merchandise, etc... Then the originator won't pay to have it hauled back. Only once has the food bank taken anything. Thankfully I was able to help find places & individuals to give this good quality food too. Otherwise it would've been thrown in the trash! The ice cream incident took 20 runs in my car loaded front to back, floor to ceiling, including the trunk. To find homes for it all. I had to eat the cost of the gas to deliver it. Not everyone has the time or can do that.

This saves those companies from lawsuits when someone gets sick from the food.

@@laerramarie2620 I get that but it's easy to inspect it and find out first what is still good and what isn't. We have technology now to avoid that

@@onecuet Stores could at least put it out at their store or outside with a sign that says "free" or sell it at a discount. Something, but many of them won't even try. If they're worry it'll hurt business, people already risk themselves getting old products. There'll always be people who want and pay fresh products. People finding out about this will make them disgusted at businesses, boycott them, or push for higher regulation on them. Aren't stores losing money by not just selling them at a discount? I also think people and business owners should be moral, and not just greedy for their business so much. You say the gas is costly but why are businesses able to transfer their products to discount stores like Ross, to landfills, or able to outsource their labor and ship products around the world so much? In this video, there were volunteers willing to transport the donations. They asked the managers and they often said no. So there isn't a excuse there.

Extremely evil.

Yeah, also, when will the signs for the recalled gummies at ikea be put away?? XD

Yeah, if I whole big batch of frozen pizzas were recalled cause they were found to cause poisoning, the people who "salvage" the thrown-out pizzas are probably risking poisoning their family and friends.

Yeah some of that stuff there diving for might not be good anymore

or their power went out and they thawed and refroze. that is a risk too. if they aren't expired there is probably a reason they were dumped

Yes, and if they take them they should not donate them to food banks. It should be a at your own risk and not involve other people.

You’re right, that’s really sad.

That's the reason why alot of company's don't donate anything

This. Also why companies cut and destroy things before chucking. Much like how used safety gear that’s worn out and no longer safe is cut up to avoid people using unsafe gear. - Also heard about a pub that started selling the vegetables seperate from the meat to cut back on food waste that was getting backlash. I worked at a pub for awhile and it was _common_ for people to just eat the meat and barely touch the vegetables. Buying the two things separately would have totally helped cut back on food waste. Granted this method wouldn’t be useful for stores cutting back on their waste, but it could be useful for cutting back on other types of food waste.

Ten years ago I was fired from Starbucks for giving out free water away to the homeless or crust punks

@@EEsRU-vidChanel It's messed being fired for being moral. But at least you stood for good.

Can confirm as well. When I worked at CVS, we had our freezers fail overnight twice and had to toss all of the frozen foods in them the next morning. It was upsetting, but it has to be done because it's not safe to eat at that point. It's inevitably going to still be cold, as long as the freezer wasn't opened, but that doesn't make it safe to eat.

@Amarianee my store had a similar issue a few months back; luckily, it occurred during store hours where we had enough employees to help. Our store has these metal covers that enclose any open coolers (any cold food display without a door), so we rushed to put those out. Luckily there was a few coolers/freezers still working, so when we ran out of the metal covers we filled shopping carts with frozen food and zoomed them to the nearest working cooler until everything was full. It was crazy how a good portion of the frozen/cooler section of the store just quit working. Luckily, we were able to get someone to come fix the issue before any food went bad. But this is just one of many examples that lead to a huge loss of perfectly good food :( Sometimes, our equipment just fails. Dont dumpsterdive for frozen/cooled items kids

I was literally thinking this the entire video- I was like ‘That doesnt mean they are safe, they are thrown away for a reason.’

yeah, it could be that they got defrosted by a power outage, and by the time you find out about the outage, the electricity was restored and the food frozen again. I have thrown meat that ended up like this b/c my house had constant power trips.

@@seaofgeese she said father in law

What someone did that ?

@@cosmoloveshoney exactly who did it I wanna find them 👹

Same. Ig some people don’t think that birds and rodents and fish are “alive enough” to be kept out of the literal trash.

Me two I love my babies 😍

Same except with the hamsters 😢 (also the birds too but I’m not a bird owner, I’m a hamster and Guinea pig owner)

yes!! right now at this present moment i dont have any money left and im out of food (until next pay) so im hungry and it makes me sad to see this

I've never risked going hungry, thank God, but even I'm so devastated to see this. I didn't know companies wasted so much perfectly good stuff!!!

“Food insecurity”. 😂.

I agree. This level of food waste is disgusting, especially considering how many people in America are starving. They should give away food like this or sell at a discount. The Target one with all the pizzas was horrible... also, the Whole Foods one is sad because people who are struggling might not have access to nutritious food.

Even if you've never experienced a need for food, it's heartbreakingly disgusting, knowing there are so many starving people and families that the wasted food could feed. That's how you know it's intentional because it should be illegal to throw away perfectly good items, including home decor!!!

My sister worked at a similar pet store, and when they were about to close because of covid, they were told to get rid of small animals (such as rats, hamsters, birds, fish) and when they asked how, the manager literally told them “I don’t care, feed them to the dogs or let the cats play with them”

I've seen way too many videos to count unfortunately. Lizards, fish, hamsters, you name it. Not to mention the tons of food they throw out that could be donated to local shelters or needy families. It's disgraceful to see waste and greed like this .

​@@NoeHernandezPe767 where on earth do they find these heartless hateful humans to manage their stores? It's absolutely horrifying and extremely heartbreaking.

​@@staciemarie5859this is normal now

@@NoeHernandezPe767😂💀

yes although i think this video wants to send a different message. This can be avoided with better management or be used for a better purpose, example: call someone from a food bank and collect the products while still on the shelf / edible instead of just disregarding them heartlessly

Most products people pull are not only still in airtight sealed packaging, but they’re then but in a sealed trash bag. The food itself doesn’t come into contact with the inside of the dumpster. As long as you spray the bag with disinfectant before opening it, it’s fine. Also, food poisoning can happen anywhere. I’ve gotten food poisoning from going out to eat at restaurants multiple times. Also cooking food mostly kills any kind of bacteria, no matter where you get it from. If you think dumpsters are breeding grounds for bacteria, you should see slaughter houses and meat packing plants. Really gross stuff.

AND lol aside from the fact you are willingly eating food that shares space with human feces and the like, you have no idea if that 'sealed' candybar (or whatever) is even safe to eat to begin with. If it was recalled usually the store is told to toss it out after documenting how many are being disposed (to be credited in replacement). While that is rare, it does happen.

Lobby to change the laws instead of breaking them

I worked at Luby's a long time ago and I learned that there were specific items they threw out daily when they had too much. I asked the manager and said hey since this is gonna be thrown out anyway can I bring some of this stuff home? Luckily my manager was chill he just said not to do it too much. I know I wasn't the only employee who did that too lol.

Cz they who are gonna go back at night and take those stuff lol

I agree. Like, why do they care? It's trash, you threw it away...not your concern.

@@Moonlight-yx5sg companies are tossing way more than just food… clothes, brand new clothes. But yeah I suppose that is contaminated??

Yeah clothes or items that can be washed and sanitized is fine.

And people and animals

@@bubble4472 when would you find people in a trash can?..

@@crowhold6715 Plot twist: adoption centers throw unwanted human

@@LooiEdits at least people get fed there and don’t fry and starve in a dark depressing small dumpster

Perhaps employees wouldn't feel the need to do that if they were paid a decent salary.

@@emmasilver2332 Then it would be a good idea to at least paid employees in those products they throw. Some businesses do that.

yeah, it's sad

Right! I’ve seen so many sick fish I would definitely take home and buy the supplies from the store. I wish they did adoption for people willing to buy something like fish food or gravel or something.

@@Lese203 I hope something changes about that. Someone needs to get fired, or prosecuted for animal cruelty

I work in a pet store in Australia and this is not the practice here! If an animal is sick they isolated from the other animals, depending on the condition they may be sent to the vet or we can treat them in a staff only area. Even for fish we have a medicated tank. Because new fish are brought in from an outside supplier sometime they bring parasites or diseases with them so we treat the fish tanks often to keep them healthy. They're also broken up into several units so any contaminated water would not affect the whole supply. We once had some baby mice and over the following week we saw that two of them seemed to have a birth defect, so my colleague adopted them for himself and they are living happily with him. It's horrifying that there are places that treat living creatures as purely a means for money, thankfully there are also many places that do the right thing c:

People dump newborn kittens and puppies in dumpsters all the time. I'm currently bottle feeding 3 kittens right now. I have to wake up e every 2 hours but it's worth it.

People are so sick sometimes...but good on you for doing that.

that’s what I was thinking, I use food banks when I need to and the thought of having food from the dumpster makes me nervous, I have OCD about food being contaminated.

@@shhsjsnsnsk exactly. I used to work as a Safety / Compliance manager for a grocery retail chain and so much can happen to food that is not easily identifiable from visual glances. We cut food waste down by organizing food donation pick ups 3x a week with a local food bank and there were very strict guidelines we had to follow to donate, both dry goods, frozen goods and produce foods.

@@alanawinters21435 that's good to hear, whatever someone believes and decides to do for themselves is fine, but there is something so gross about feeding poor people from the trash when they didn't consent.

Couldn't stop thinking about this the whole video.. Wonder how those people would react if they found out. Someone needs help and might end up getting sick instead simply because people think they're doing such a great thing by donating food that's been thrown out.

@@cindyk7055 I wonder if the places where they donate the food know where the donations came from. If they don’t disclose it, there could be legal ramifications.

well done you!

I'll never understand why this form of theft went viral over ten years ago. This is illegal and very dangerous. There really needs to be standards and this needs to be seriously stopped. These people are all rushing their lives for the thrill of an easy steal.

Exactly and since stuff is thrown away because of the recalls, people that do this need to be careful all that looks good always isn't

I understand what you're saying, however oil, candles, carpets, furniture, be serious man .... anyway, all good. I get your point. Let's say there is a safety concern on a product, the supplier should organize a collection and either use the parts for making new stuff or recycling it responsibly, by dumping it into the trash won't make the environmental chain better. Peace

yeah its important to exercise some caution and be aware of recalls. thankfully everything is on the internet now so its easy to know which foods are being recalled. youd probably have most safety with sealed foods because they are sealed so they wouldnt get contaminated by outside factors.

That’s horrifying. I’m so sorry that happened

@@BobRoss-nj9et Yeah I was only like 10 yrs old but I will never forget it

That poor driver... must've been a gory sight. I really hope he heals from that because it's not his fault

That’s terrible. Oh my gosh

At times like this i feel divers should have a system where someone acts as the lookout

These aren’t necessarily laws; just store policy. It’s up to the franchise to decide. There are some businesses who are totally okay with their employees taking home leftovers, and some who are completely against it.

About four years ago a candy store in my town gave free candy to kids with good grades. Of course, a lot of people faked their grades, but overall it was pretty nice. They gave us broken lolipops that weren't looking good enough to sell but they were still nice and tasty! That year some pizza store also did something similar. I wish that this was more popular.

@@Emmatriaaa I used to work at a Casino where they would give us the leftovers of the restaurant where we could take some home. But someone complained so we couldn’t take it home anymore. Sometimes all it takes is one employee to ruin it for everyone.

I agree, but they could go around this by requiring a waiver be signed exempting them from any liability.

Well the law needs to charge so that places can donate the food at the end of the night

@@asideofaioli4630 Most do not have the time to go through the paperwork process. I don't when I'm giving free food away. I just move onto the next person. Food banks notoriously reject free food; even when there's paperwork to prove its origin. I was appalled! They rejected fresh watermelon & cases frozen ice cream.

@@asideofaioli4630 ppl would still complain

@@onecuetWould it need to be more than a paragraph explaining that the patron accepts all responsibility for any/all occurrences as a result of ingesting the food, and a signature/date at the bottom? That doesn't seem like it would be a lot of paperwork.

Back when I worked at Little Caesars, which was my first "real" job, employees were allowed to take the unsold pizzas home at the end of the night. I guess other locations were different, but mine was real good about this.

Geeez why??! Fire somebody for helping those in need, so much logic

Yeah same I had to sneak the sandwiches from where I worked out to near the dumpsters where I would tell a homeless fellow to wait for me. I'll never regret it

100% agreed

the only valid reasons for throwing mass items from my perspective, its because something was bad with the product since it was made, if the reason is its expiration date, its no a valid reason, because that just means, you made more than you needed, it makes me sad to see so much waste. greetings from Mexico :)

Some could be inventory write off for taxes...

@@madkrakatoa I worked at Walmart and many of the claims for taxes were given to places the store knew to give that would make good use but be taxable as donations. Ex home for retired or sick old people you could donate the overstock of blankets, yarn, crosswords, magazines etc.

Use to work for cvs we had to get food/snacks off the shelf a week before the best by date or we'd fail our audits 🤷

@@knox999 sometimes things get thrown away cause cross contamination or if their fridge or freezer went down, they have no choice but to throw it all away.

Imagine getting contaminated food as donation

why would yall rechill it?!! LOLOL people reach new levels of evil every single day, I swear.

@@learning.growing.1017 we re-chilled it in our SPOILED cooler so that it didn't smell of rotten meat, NOT in the coolers that customers have any access to. eventually we would write off the spoiled foods (that day or some other day that week) and then throw them in the dump. the warning was that if someone retrieved newly thrown out, spoiled foods from a dumpster, they may not be aware that they previously had grown bacteria, etc. READ CORRECTLY before you question people LOLOLOL

Exactly it’s thrown away for a reason.

Learning. Growing. 🌱 maybe yall need to finally realize stuff is generally thrown out for a reason.

Too late for the fish:(

Look at bird bath 🐬

You have to be VERY careful believing some people's videos about "finding" animals and "saving" them. These kinds of videos are popular on YT right now.

@@drueby Very true! Lady Freethinker is trying to put an end to these videos and I support that cause fully!

@@maevependragon I've never heard of her. I'll have to check her out!

Why just the baby food. It was all bad. Especially the live animals.

They do that to avoid getting sued. The divers don’t know why it was dumped (could’ve been recalled, contaminated, etc.)

-you do live there

yes, it's absolutely disgusting.

No it’s common sense

@@laddiebuggie8018 no I live in a different country we don't even waste food the waiters eat leftovers cause poverty is a big problem here

Than you for actually knowing what you're speaking on.

As a former Sephora assistant manager, I back this.

I also worked at a bath and body works before and I can also confirm this is correct.

I wouldn't work at those places cause I can't do that and don't want to compromise my morals.

Lol, a lot of people do this just because, not just because they are desperate.

@@ericaallisonc sure, but humans still have to do this to survive and that should not be the case

@@recluseren again some of them are giving those things to homeless people who have nothing to eat so its good for them, waste of products if you throw it away and you get fired if you try to give them away

That’s BS

FRR its tempting or maybe im just too gullible😭😭

It. Is. Garbage. If they wanted it, then they shouldn't have thrown it away. After you throw it away, it's not yours anymore, therefore it's not stealing. The law can shove it.

@@Little_Lepus it's not about stealing in this case, it's about trespassing since the dumpster is both on and the business's property. Totally not defending them but that's the only thing I can think of.

@@Little_Lepus and I'm guessing if the dumpster divers injure themselves they're at the right to sue, so they're trying to prevent that.

@@krysta9113 y'know what, that's a good point! Hadn't thought of that

Good ending

Well I'll be darned

This makes me think there are babies that we’re found

@@tashadilan5740 I mean SOMEONE would probably hear them cry even if they weren't dumpster diving so

@@mariakan1598 Newborns have weak cries if neglected. The divers thought it was a cat.

Seriously!! Im a teen, so I saved up a lot of money for a beauty product at whole foods. They had a whole bin of said product that had been out for like a month. Came back two days after I'd been there (still full bin) and it was pulled. 😕 same thing happened recently too. I figured it went home with the employees, didn't have confirmation until now 😂

Maybe it’s different owners/managers that have different rules to prevent people from getting sick and open them up to lawsuits

My husband had the opposite experience at Whole Foods. They almost fired him for taking a prepacked dinner they were shrinking out at the end of the night. The only thing that “saved” his employment was one of the prepared foods workers finally admitted that she told him to take it because it was shrunk out and would be trashed. He was still told to never do it again.

At mine we waste very little. Our ‘shrink’ is foods that are one-two days from expiring, (usually vegan meats that people don’t like the taste of), rotten fruits, and products with broken packaging. The one thing we need to waste less of is our fresh bread and prep foods. They throw it out quite a bit before expiry because they want “guaranteed freshness” just wish they pulled a Walmart and had a section of discounted foods about to expire. Other than that, it’s nothing like in this video.

That’s very true

You have no idea on food transportation.. just say it. :) (before Walmart unloads it’s refrigerated trucks.. they usually call for the unloading crew.. which can take a few minutes to 20.. and the trucks refrigeration units aren’t always up to code… the food everyone buys full price from the shelves.. they’re told “get it into the cooler fast” this was the case at the Walmart I worked at locally.. as well as our target truck a few times.. which is why you can see “rotten” meat on the shelves next to healthy meat. But sure. Yeah, irresponsible. Hahahahaha

Food banks don't really take it from there they literally get food from people donating what's in their pantry or they go buy them if they do not take things that have an expiration date that's already passed

I work at a store and all our food returns get thrown away

This is a very privileged, American thing to say. People are disgusted that we eat 5+ day leftovers in my house. When you were brought up in another country you know better. If you literally cannot tell that food is spoiled then your parents did a bad job raising you.

agreed, or at least recycle for better manufacturing and saving processing costs ....

Bath & Body Works could do a lot of good by donating to domestic violence shelters.

Yes I had a manager that grew up in foster care and she had to dumpster dive to keep herself from starving because her foster parents would barely feed her and her brother she hated taking trash to the dumpster beicase she sometimes had flashbacks

Mindset is everything. They see the adventure in it, happy for a surprise treasure. And, bonus, new technology, They make income money off YT, as well, once there is enough views, subscribers. What a difference in mindset!

So what are you saying? People should stop reducing waste because people have to do it?

I guess it all depends on how you look at things

My mom grew up very poor and had to dumpster dive for food to help keep her and her siblings alive. You do what you have to do to survive There is no shame in that. My mom was a strong and compassionate woman who always tried to help others and did so until the day she died.

Law suits and the refusal of US state governments to put laws in place to prevent those law suits. Like they pick on Dunkin Doghnuts but they're pretty open about the lawsuit that forced them to change there donation policy. I no longer live in the US and the country I live in enacted a grocery donation protection law a few years ago. And most food retailers started donating (probably helps that the garbage is charge by weight and it's expensive here)

@@sfsin3380 So corruption is one reason.

That would be beyond lovely

That's such a good idea. Or stores work with the resellers. Resellers are in charge of storing, but get the to be dumped items for free

Back in my dumpster diving days I would ask around at fruit and vegetable stores, to see if they had anything they were going to throw out. They usually gave me a box of stuff that was still good, but not fresh enough to sell, while giving a heads up about fruits and veggies that weren't good anymore.

there are already clearance sections for a lot of grocery stores, the problem comes for them with the “sell by” date to which the food may not be expired, but they are now too close to the expiration date for them to sell it as the food may go bad on the shelves and now they are in legal trouble. as well as contaminated food cannot be sold, so it needs to be thrown out. contamination can take out a whole isle, especially frozen food since frozen food needs to be kept at a certain temperature for bacteria to not contaminate the frozen items. so when power goes out and the frozen foods fall below a certain temp, that food cannot be sold anymore

👍🏻good job i hope it existed

Cops, businesses, and people should have compassion for poor people.

my boyfriend worked at Panera, at the end of the night they would donate majority of the pastries to an old folks home and the truck would come and deliver it to them. the rest of the leftovers would be taken home by employees and then the last bits are thrown out for a replacement of fresh food/pastries. but that doesn’t account for the accidents made during the work day causing food that is now not able to be sold.

In my teens, I worked at a locally-owned Chinese restaurant and we had to throw everything away. Owners were trying to avoid any lawsuits pertaining to food poisoning or anything like that. Trust me, the quantities of food that we had to throw away; I never got used to.

@Shellz Which may not exist in *their* country

How about the country just make a disclaimer that if you eat at a food pantry the pantry is not liable for illness? That would solve it!

@@victoriahope8371 If the restaurant isn’t liable, what’s stopping anyone from tampering with the food and getting away with it because of the legal loophole that’ll cause?

@@Emmatriaaa right !

Many times it can look okay but not be okay. It happened once when I worked that a certain brand of baby food did a recall cause the food had been found by an FDA to have a malicious ingredient so they had to pack and throw it away. It may have looked fine in the trash but the baby food was actually damaged. So that’s something to keep in mind. Many places donate but I can’t talk of all stores

Theres Aare reasons Food isn’t donated. One is that the food could be recalled and another for legal reasons. Someone claims to get sick and you have a lawsuit. It’s a liability issue.

Sometime company’s throw perfectly good looking food out bc smth was wrong with the ingredients used. The milk could’ve been expired and they only saw after he cookies were baked, recalls, a bunch of other health risk things. It would be an even worst look if they sold or donated unsafe food.

It's cheaper to throw somethings away than face a lawsuit.

We throw away bagels at the end of the day .. we use to donate them but one person decides it's a great lawsuit for food poisoning and tried to sue us. It was costly and yes we won but now it's all trash and we make sure to mix it with coffee grounds and other trash to prevent dumpster diving

True

@ForeverDreamWithinADream yeah just because something looks good and has not expired doesn't mean it's safe. I mean what store wants to lose money and throw stuff away? It doesn't make any sense.

@@mariakan1598 Also if the way they are checking if it is okay or not by just checking if it is cold is absurd.

@@Dontwantahandle0 Yes and they store it for years and it gets rodent infested.

Wow, what channels do that?

They're great people, quit judging! Debbie Downer! 😂

And these people prolly feed expired/recalled food to their pets. Nice

That is a shame! I was taught by good and kind folks who said leave the place cleaner than whence you came! A$$#@L#$ always ruin a good thing!