Economy Supermarket destroys food, does not let people salvage them

[Officer Rick]

Legally they would be sued if anyone got sick eating that "thrown out" food ...

you can feel bad but its not the stores fault that idiots would sue them

 

[Officer Rick]

Just lol @ anyone thinks this okay when people are starving. The ol 'they might get sick' is a poor excuse and doesn't cut it.

Let them eat at their own risk but its no donation. Society is backwards and greed. Sad

there is no "eat at your own risk " option in our govt...
its to protect its citizens not "survival of the fittest"


the "they might get sick" is all the excuse you need...

moron eats food then sues supermarket times that by a few hundred and then what the supermarket goes out of business for your "feelings" LOL

 

[jx820]

But in foresight what is reasonable precautions? there's probably a million scenarios that a lawyer could dream up if somebody gets hurt or sick from them donating food. If they threw the food away that's that. As a business owner I know which call I would make. The problem is with our legal system,, it's not the stores fault.

They did throw the food away, and if that was that, then the police wouldn't have been involved.

This discussion isn't about should they have donated the food. It's about whether they are liable for dumpster diving related illness or injury and the answer is essentially "no, not in the absence of flagrant negligence".

And yes in our legal system you can file a lawsuit against anyone at (almost) any time for any reason. That doesn't mean the court has to hear it, or that you will win. It's why everyone pays liability insurance and why most mid sized to large businesses keep lawyers on retainer. Variables surrounding dumpster diving have little to no effect on that.

 

[hillelslovak87]

Its almost as if extreme multiculturalism doesnt work

Yeah, multiculturalism is the reasoning for the American selfish ethos. Totally makes sense. Not croney capitalism and market worship over human interest, nope. It's because they just had to refuse the good advice of the know nothings and let teh browns in...........

 

[DoctorNick]

Yeah, multiculturalism is the reasoning for the American selfish ethos. Totally makes sense. Not croney capitalism and market worship over human interest, nope. It's because they just had to refuse the good advice of the know nothings and let teh browns in...........

Don't forget the gays too. Send them to @tonni 's catacombs where they belong. Before we get reset!

 

[MoparOrNoCar]

This is what happens when you allow frivolous lawsuits.

 

[JSN]

Do they really need to pour bleach on anything when your location says nocturne?
Also this being america im thinking there would be some legal loophole to get sued to bolivia if people get sick if you just let them have this food but I really have 0 clue, it just sounds very american.
On a happier note in the town i live in in norway a local church community gets the food thats about to expire from all the local food store chains and freeze it, then people in need can come get it if they want it. The only price you pay is getting an earful of gospel

From what I understand, homeless people can easily find three squares a day the same way here. They don't want the earful of gospel, though, which is why they prefer to eat food of questionable safety from a dumpster when they can.

 

[Loiosh]

We need protections against food waste. I'm more worried about the 80 BILLION pounds of food that is wasted in America every year than frivolous lawsuits.

I went to google to check, and apparently the average person eats nearly 2,000 pounds of food per year. With that number in mind, it would take 1 billion pounds of food to feed every single homeless person per year.

We could feed the homeless 8 times over with "food waste" alone.

We're already doing that.

I spent years helping with a food bank. The entire city of Montreal had a huge repository that served almost two hundred food banks, it was called Harvest, and it was huge. It dwarfed Costco.

The only perishable product they had was bread. Absolutely no frozen foods. There are too many things that can go wrong.

The second something thaws, the clock's ticking.

Yes, this situation looks terrible but you have to look past even the liability. Food can be dangerous.

I also worked in floral import for many years. Every week we disposed of product, filled a huge bin, and there were always dumpster divers because our trash was incredibly valuable. Flowers that were too old to sell to a client (a wholesaler) was still as fresh as most things you could buy at a florist, who we couldn't sell to because that would be a conflict with out wholesaler clients.

There was this old guy that used to come like clockwork every Friday night. He'd take our leavings, make bouquets and sell them outside a subway. One week he came by and he was black and blue; turns out there was a group of younger divers who beat him senseless to convince him to leave our trash to them. My bosses, fucking fantastic people that they were, told him to stop coming at night and come right after lunch every Friday. They gave him first pick of everything before we tossed it.

To put this into perspective, most people in our industry bleached their bins to keep people from coming by and making a mess.

 

[freakroor]

if we're going to tackle the problem of wastefulness in our society, this seems like an odd place to start. How much food could our bloated military budget buy for hungry Americans?

 

[Fluffernutter]

Why not donate it is an organized way. Give it to a food pantry or soup kitchen.

 

[superpunch]

And yes in our legal system you can file a lawsuit against anyone at (almost) any time for any reason. That doesn't mean the court has to hear it, or that you will win. It's why everyone pays liability insurance and why most mid sized to large businesses keep lawyers on retainer. Variables surrounding dumpster diving have little to no effect on that.

Imaginary scenario: Someone is in your backyard rummaging through your trash. You have to clean up trash in your yard the next morning. Brings his friends the next day. Have to clean up again the morning after. The next day.. Then the one day you make a "negligent" mistake, he hurts himself on something in your trash and sues you. You're OK with that?

Think further though. You now have those people chilling in your neighborhood. All the sudden property crimes go up. People can't leave things in their cars anymore. You start noticing blunt wraps and stuff on the ground in your neighborhood. Your insurance rates go up with that. That's cool too?

I've lived in neighborhoods with lots of dumpster divers. It's a million small things like you start noticing that Christmas cards (with money) from your grandparents aren't in the mailbox, even though they swear they mailed them to you. And they didn't get your's. Then you gotta stop the family tradition. That's why people bolt shut their dumpsters and keep their trash cans inside.

It's not some businesses' responsibility to feed people, or to turn their property into a chill spot for homeless people. Just like it's not their responsibility to provide $2,000 a month health insurance to an employee's family they pay $1600 a month salary. You gonna blame them for the price of tea in China too? Stop blaming private businesses for not doing things the government should be doing. It's the government's responsibility.

 

[Diogenes of Sinope]

Yeah, multiculturalism is the reasoning for the American selfish ethos. Totally makes sense. Not croney capitalism and market worship over human interest, nope. It's because they just had to refuse the good advice of the know nothings and let teh browns in...........

Both are contributing factors.
Corruption and cronyism can exist under socialism as well. It's even worse in that instance, since you've government has more control over the market.
You cant manufacture compassion.

 

[hillelslovak87]

Both are contributing factors.
Corruption and cronyism can exist under socialism as well. It's even worse in that instance, since you've government has more control over the market.
You cant manufacture compassion.

Who said anything about socialism? He tried to link multiculturalism to this runaway capitalist bullshit.

 

[nhbbear]

It’s a shame to waste the food. On the flip side, I can see some dipshit digging in the dumpster two days later and getting sick from eating green meat and then suing.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

This is what happens when you allow frivolous lawsuits.

like suing about widespread election fraud that never existed.

 

[4daLuLZ]

There is liability if someone were to get sick from any of that food. The people may be hungry but let one of them get sick and they would sue right away.

If there are so many hungry and starving people up there they should stop their nightly temper tantrums and work to help each other.

There is no "liability" if you’re dumpster diving for food, you dingus.

 

[panamaican]

Seems like a smart solution would be to make everyone sign a liability waiver, agree to indemnify them against lawsuits, and agree to binding arbitration. Then dumpster dive at your own risk and your risk alone, lol.

 

[4daLuLZ]

Soy Libs who destroyed their own state with drug laws, homelessness and Anita/BLM crying and whining again.

Texas.

 

[panamaican]

There is no "liability" if you’re dumpster diving for food, you dingus.

It's unlikely that the store would lose but the issue isn't losing (dumpster diving on private property is trespassing and theft), the issue is being dragged into court at all.

 

[mb23100]

Allowing this in a city like Portland would get you a homeless city in your parking lot overnight.