My tiny local market does 40% off and then FREE for products near expiration.
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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
At least one local hypermarket does sell food at discounted price before they go off. Some poorer families rely on them.
potpotato@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah, there’s solutions to this problem and the idea that all of them don’t do this a failing of the store’s management.
France had to pass a law that banned food getting thrown out that could be given away.
I also noticed that Costco started offering more prepared chicken foods after it became more well known that their cheap rotisserie chickens would will dumpsters at the end of the day.
pingveno@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Fred Meyer (owned by Kroger) sells close dated food at half price. Produce with blemishes is set aside and sold in reduced price bundles. I am sure they still throw away plenty of food, but the reduced prices do seem to attract buyers (myself included). Some items just never make financial sense at the regular price, but half price? I’ll take it.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Supermarkets should be able to write off the expenses (transportation, stagging, etc) related to donating soon-to-expire foods to food banks. And not just normal income deductions, but actual direct deductions from taxes. That is, if you spend $1000 loading and shipping expired food to the food bank, you pay $1,000 less in taxes.
Truly incentivize giving food to the poor.
dellish@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It sounds great on the surface, but you just know there are total assholes out there who would exploit the system with artificially inflated shipping costs to the point where they’re hardly paying tax at all. This, as is commonly said, is why we can’t have nice things.