When I worked the closing shifts at a grocery store years ago, we would go take donuts that were gonna get tossed.
My dad's friend took me out around midnight one night when I was a freshman in college. We went by a gas station that closes at midnight and the workers just gave him like 30 donuts that didn't sell. Apparently he does this at least once a week lol. They had the donuts already in a bag waiting for him when we walked in, and all knew him by name. It's a great life hack. I think the secret to making it work is actually making the workers like you. Gotta spend a few minutes for fun conversation before they give you free stuff.
That’s awesome. Just gotta build a little rapport and you’re golden. So many places throw so much food away. It’s sad. When I did Food Not Bombs years ago, we would get entire bags of leftover baked goods from a local place. They’d give us literal trash bags worth of bagels, donuts, pastries, all wrapped up. Some grocery stores have gotten strict and won’t give that stuff away anymore, but you can still find the right people that don’t give a shit about the rules.
When I worked at a motel, I got first pick of a bunch of leftover shit by taking the initiative to sort out and organize and purge of trash several months of backlogged lost crap. I don't think anybody else actually wanted all the tarot and oracle cards, but the ring light would have been wanted.
Wow I hope you don't get caught because that would be serious, manipulating item prices without authorization. Maybe gas station management is more lenient but I personally wouldn't bet on it.
This is quite clever.
To be honest if you agreed to cover the cost of the drink if the day ended on a odd number of cans. I reckon you should have at it, it’s a good little bonus incentive.
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