it’s probably wise not to patronize places like that if possible.
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arsCynic@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I recently went to the store to buy some pastries before closing—you can already know where I’m going with this. The pastry cupboard was empty so I went to check the lady who cleans them out. They were all in a three big boxes stacked on top of each other, filled with soon to be thrown pastries. I took two and paid full price. Knowing how ridiculous this is in contrast with the rest having been thrown in the trash 10 minutes later.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
To my shame I worked at a supermarket bakery in my early 20s I would empty all the bulk bins into a garbage bin and into the dumpster every night. I complained multiple times that it could be bagged and donated, they relented and let me pack up expired prebagged breads to a shelter but never the bulk stuff.
I would at least eat as much as I could as I threw it out but there was only so much I could do.