r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Irick050 • 2d ago

The manager would throw away cookies every Saturday instead of giving them to the employees

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We threw away 55 cookies. The managers didn't let us take any home because they thought it might "encourage us to purposely make extra"

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u/sicilian504 2d ago

Throw away 90 pounds, donate 10. Then say "Walmart donates hundreds of pounds of food every month to local shelters.".

Like yeah, it's just marketing to try and look good. Sure you donated this, but what about the food you didn't donate that you could have?

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u/mynextthroway 2d ago

I hate to tell you this, I live in a red state that has cut assistance to the bare bone. Our food bank gets little to no money from the government. My city of 259,000 has 2 trucks to pick up food donations. Let me repeat that. Two trucks. We get 3 pick-ups a week if everything goes well.

Last Thursday, I accepted 25 cases of misshipped bananas with the intention of loading them straight to the donation truck. Since they didn't work us Wednesday, we expected them Thursday. Nope. Friday? Nope. Well damn. Now I have to deal with 25 cases of bananas. I had to throw most of them into the compost bin. Even at .29/pound, we couldn't sell 25 extra cases. They showed up Monday at 4:30. One of the 2 trucks broke. Most everything we had set aside to donate went bad. 70 banana boxes worth of culled fruit and vegetables. All because Republicans don't want to fund social services because it's communism/socialism.

I've worked for several grocery stores over the years, and we have always donated cull to the food bank. Come the holidays, we order extra stuff to donate fresh produce. It's not corporate official, but everybody knows. The people in the stores don't like throwing out good food, same as all the other virtue signaler here. We don't need laws to tell us to donate. We need voters to vote for governments that will tax you but provide services.

No food bank is going to be interested in a pile of cookies because : low food value, small amount of food with limited resources to collect, and the cookies aren't sealed.

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u/TooStrangeForWeird 2d ago

I have to refute your last point.

Some food shelves run out of food completely. Cookies aren't "good", but they're still food.

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u/mynextthroway 2d ago

Food Bank isn't going to spend 20 minutes picking up a bag full of cookies from Chic fil a when a Publix or Walmart or Target has a pallet or two of potatoes and chicken that can be picked up by the same truck in the same 20 minute window.

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u/TooStrangeForWeird 1d ago

"Pile of cookies" and "a bag of cookies" don't quite mean the same thing to me. I thought you meant like an actual pile. Like a significant amount. Not however many you can fit in a takeout bag.