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In the United States, roughly 30% to 40% of the entire food supply goes uneaten and they'll fire your ass if you try and take any of it home (loops.video)
submitted 3 days ago by [M] to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
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[+] -20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Because people WERE stealing too much and taking advantage. Like I get it your the edge case you'll never do that, but most people in the roles do. File that under"why we can't have nice things". Small businesses have to implement this all the time. It's a huge loss of income and makes inventory a royal pain in the ass with sudden shortages because employees don't record what they're stealing.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    One of the shops near me throws out so much fresh bakery stuff every day that after collecting and redistributing it to poor single mothers and refugees there's still enough left over to provide me and 4 others with breakfast and lunch every day. Businesses overproduce and then throw away the excess to protect their profits, it has nothing to do with inventory.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    Them days I was living off 10-20 bucks a week, the "bread man" saved me. One grocery around here (place has a union I might add) would send all the weeks leftover bakery items around in a van, making a stop at the rooming house I lived. The fucking bread man was such a welcome sight!

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago

    Even if you weren't spouting bullshit, who cares? Fuck those people, who cares, let them have the food.

    I absolutely reject your viewpoint, and I'm tired of pretending its okay to think this way, fuck you.

    Keeping people desperate is by design.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Small restaurants are more likely to allow employees to grab food at the end of the day or even implement family meals. It helps with team cohesion, morale, and when normalized means it doesn't fuck with inventory counts because employees do record what they take. The 12 years I was with my ex spouse they worked in restaurants and were constantly coming home with food half the time it was the owners actively giving it to employees. The people working those places knew not to take advantage of it otherwise they'd lose that trust and the perks.

    We could live in a world where big corps decide to let a little control go and treat their employees like humans and us and the corps would be fine. Instead of locking everything down we can just normalize human behavior and a base level of decency and people will respond positively. "Never take anything or you're fired" leads to people being sneaky and now the books are all fucked plus morale is trashed, "you can grab a reasonable amount but write it down and don't take anything that's high demand or hard to replace" and now the books and employees are happy and you can roll it into business expenses

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  • [–] -2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    A family meal is an accounted for expense. Restaurants are already ruthlessly low margins. This costs real money 🤷‍♂️.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    My brother came home with a ten(or more I dont remember) pound bag of bacon one time from the resturant he worked at...15 years ago, the place is still open today.

    They guy stealing liquor got fired, but my brother and ex both worked there and would come home nightly with leftover pizza and all kinds of things the owners would let the employees take. Its one of the best and most popular resturants in my state. Had another roommate at another pizza joint (also still open 15 years later) who would bring us home white pies nearly every night. This practice seems pretty fuckin common with small owned companies, for corpo trash, yeah, they throw it out. Mom and pop take care though.

    Less uh, legal example:

    Hell when I worked at the Travel Center, there was a gas station, a resturant, and a Burgerking. I worked in the gas station where the manager himself encouraged fhe five finger discount, and we'd trade the resturant cooks energy drinks for meals. Same With BK, though less often. We couldnt trade with the Dunkin in there. I was young, but it was a whole thing, "we cant trade with them" I forgot why. All these places are still there. I became homeless while working there and was sleeping in a coworkers car on the night shift. I'll never forget the night he brought me out a giant plate of mashed potatoes and greenbeans for dinner. fucking blessed yo

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