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Old 07-21-2016, 01:24 PM
 
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was at the neighborhood Harris teeter this morning and saw 50+ bread packs being removed from the shelves and trashed! If I had bought this bread yesterday night I would be using it for next 4-5 days for sure! Just wondering if this food can be shared with people who need it instead of throwing away ?? I am not trying to say we can give old food products to poor people, but anyone would have used it for a week if they bought it yesterday, so it not really bad!

What can we do as a community to make sure food is not wasted like this in this world !!

If there is a central place we can have this discarded food collected, we can then distribute the same day for people who need them, I can talk to the manager and collect them and drop on my way to work!
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Old 07-21-2016, 01:28 PM
 
Location: At the NC-SC Border
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I bet it won't be thrown away. If nothing else it will become hog slop...garanteed.
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Old 07-21-2016, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Call the local Food Bank, but they probably already have an arrangement with the stores. The stores would get a write-off. Have you tried actually asking the store manager first?
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Old 07-21-2016, 02:07 PM
 
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Do you know that the bread was being discarded? Sometimes the local distributors remove the older products, replacing them with newer product (that are more likely to sell) and take the older stuff to donate. Unless you actually saw it going into a trash bin, I wouldn't assume it was being discarded.
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Old 07-21-2016, 03:09 PM
 
Location: under the beautiful Carolina blue
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If that picture is supposed to be proof, it's not.

I've seen a food bank truck at my HT more than once.
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Old 07-21-2016, 03:13 PM
 
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Was it HT doing this or the Bread truck guy? Most of the bread is stocked by a bread truck guy and he usually rotates the bread stock he is responsible for.
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Old 07-21-2016, 04:58 PM
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Unless you know it's definitively being thrown away I don't know if there's much proof here. It could very well be being donated to some place like UMD. I know UMD has a pantry full of donated items when I've volunteered there.
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Old 07-21-2016, 05:57 PM
 
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HT is also the only store I know of in the area that has a discounted produce rack. They take produce that is a little bruised or past its prime and sell it at a discounted price. I love buying bananas at a dirt cheep price that are not green!
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Old 07-21-2016, 07:01 PM
 
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I know Interfaith Food Shuttle picks up at HT. maybe they got it?
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Old 07-21-2016, 07:03 PM
 
Location: The City of Medicine
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HT is also the only store I know of in the area that has a discounted produce rack. They take produce that is a little bruised or past its prime and sell it at a discounted price. I love buying bananas at a dirt cheep price that are not green!
Kroger has the discounted produce rack as well, and they mark down bread too.

HT discounts theirs by the pound, and Kroger puts theirs in little red mesh baggies for $.99
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