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10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town
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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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It’s not too hard to look at stores and see that there’s a consistent overproduction. Instead they punish people.
Yeah; the current system is a bit of an overreaction. Some people abuse and tracking it is work; so everyone gets punished and food gets wasted entirely instead. Stupid.
At my gas station we were required to put out a certain amount of hot dogs and hothold items but not allowed to eat it even after it's expiration (4 hours) unless we paid for it