and WAL-MART does it again..

[candyman]

i disagree about this - i keep seeing signs asking for people to donate their boats...

boats!? are you f**kin kidding me? what's a poor person gonna do with a boat? but obviously, there is a "market", so to speak, for even this. donating car parts is a great idea, because there are a lot of people who depend on shit-beaters to get to work, and when they break down, most of them can't afford to fix the car, lose their job, etc. downward spiral.

just for an example...

Oh yeah donating basic car parts and even cheap vehicles would be a great idea but the auto parts stores don't do that. Anything that was thrown out was either a returned electronic part that had been installed or a performance part that someone returned because they didn't like it. Now, I would see donating a brake job of a tune-up to someone...but a Holley 600cfm carb or a chrome intake kit or oil pan is not what they really need...if a homeless person can use those items they should think over their situation a little more.

Since this thread deal with business ethics I will admit to stealing basic tune-up parts off the shelf for our customer that couldn't really afford it...and I told my boss what I stole so he could adjust the numbers to compensate in our reports.

[Rayne]

I remember working for a cookie place in the mall over a decade ago, they always made one throw away the unused baked goods, one was not allowed to simply give them away or take them home.... they needed to be destroyed. Same mentality.

It is usually that way with prepared foods because of company (and sometimes state) restrictions. Because it's prepared food, you're not allowed to "give it away" or "consume it" after the store has closed ... to protect them from lawsuits should the food be bad. It was that way when I worked for McDonald's (although our manager didn't really care and let us take a couple things for the drive home anyway, we weren't supposed to).

There's really no reason for it for undamaged boxed and canned foods, or clothing ... just selfishness, I would assume.

[TitsMcGee]

I really dislike Wal-Mart these days because they just re-did ours and they have like nothing anymore. But where I live, it's the only place to shop that's relatively cheap.

[Msterbeau]

But where I live, it's the only place to shop that's relatively cheap.

THAT is what sucks about Walmart. They have driven off the competition leaving them the only game in town. Then they offer crap products, but you're stuck because there's no one else to buy from.

[TitsMcGee]

THAT is what sucks about Walmart. They have driven off the competition leaving them the only game in town. Then they offer crap products, but you're stuck because there's no one else to buy from.

Well there is always K-mart for me, but that is across town and half the time I can't find clothes there that fit me. And around here really there isn't anywhere else to go in the first place. Our mall is a hallway with like 5 stores, which only one offers things in my size..and they aren't cheap.

[jynxxxedangel]

We recently lost our local mom & pop grocery store (which had excellent quality meats, and an excellent wine selection)-- I'm assuming because of the proximity of a Meijer, as well as two Walmarts. That store was a lifeline here on the poorer side of town (within short walking distance from two large manufactured home communities), for nearly thirty years. I was heartbroken to see it go. Now, I have to buy shitty, overly-priced meat from the bigger stores (who don't know how to cut or wrap meats).

Such is progress, I guess.

[Michiko_Dreads]

Sad to say but in our kitchen at the end of the day we throw it all away.

Most of our food is still edible when thrown out but there is nothing we can do or the Captain can do about it.

So we just give the crew extra food to cut down waste.

There are plenty of halfway houses and shelters not too far from here that we can donaste to but unless it becomes an option in Navy policy we cant, *sighs*.

We arent "allowed" to take food home through policy but the chain of command hates to waste espeically when we host big events. So we would just our families to come and eat it all.

I still feel bad during field day (clean until your fingers bleed dsy) and we through out fresh fruit and veggies.

Hopefully things change for the better.

[candyman]

There's really no reason for it for undamaged boxed and canned foods, or clothing ... just selfishness, I would assume.

It depends on who is selling it. Like I said before many retail stores are under pressure from the people that manufacture the product to either sell it or destroy it. Autozone would get a shitstorm for just giving away a used and returned Holley carb no matter what condition it is in. Kohls would get sued by Apt. 9 for giving away slightly damaged shirts or dented candles. I imagine that Wal-Mart is is the same boat with some of their products. Now, they could ignore that stuff and do it anyways but there are better ways to go about making this situation better.

Also, for those who say that Wal-mart sells cheap crap you have to rephrase that statement. I buy alot of stuff from there and all of it is sold at other stores, even small ones, where I checked the prices and they were higher. Yes, there is cheap shit there but not all of it...and I know alot of people that depend on that cheap shit to keep their lives going in a clothed and fed kinda direction.

I'm gonna repeat some advice given to me in the smoking ban thread. Get off you asses and do something if this really bothers you. Write a letter to someone, which I have done but not for this, or sign a petition or do something other and bitch about and take cheap-shots at companies...especially ones where you might not know all the policies or legal implication involved. I know your chair is nice and soft and that you must feel as awesome as Bono for caring so much for the people that don't get this stuff...but that doesn't do anything and just makes the divide between these companies and normal people that much greater.

[freydis]

I like the areas that use food garbage for livestock.

Saw that Dirty Jobs recently that showed how Vegas strip hotels send their buffet waste to a local pig farm.

Dude might be buying it for all I know, though.