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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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Big chains do stuff like that. They usually got on trouble once, or got some employees trying to game the system. Stuff with a damaged package can be taken by workers? There's always one guy that 'accidentally' drops the good stuff and then takes it home, and does that every day. Expired stuff can be taken home? Some things somehow end up in the back and are forgotten until one day over expiration. And then there are the idiots that find some stuff weeks expired, take it home, and then sue the company for giving them bad stuff. Usually management finds that it's easier to just outright outlaw taking things home instead of dealing with a few idiots, and that ruins it for all other people handling in good faith.
I'm not accusing you of making excuses for them, because all you're giving is a reason, and you're right. And at first it does feel like an excuse. But "management finds that it's easier" deserves more of our focus and pressure. If they're big enough that it's hard to manage basic employee rules/discipline on the ground, they're probably also big enough to be pocketing loads of profit. It's reasonable to expect that they'd to allocate some of those spoils to finding better solutions than "throw all the food away." For instance, if you pay people what their work is worth, they're less likely to risk termination by taking your old cookies.
And most people would think it's a huge waste of trashing stuff that's still usable, but companies don't care unless forced by regulations. Hell, a bunch of companies go out of their way to make stuff unusable.