Audio spots about reducing hunger and waste- common sense advice for shoppers.

Date: Jan 8, 2019

Audio spots about reducing hunger and waste- common sense advice for shoppers.

kroagrr · Guru

http://www.endfoodwaste.org/ugly-fruit---veg.html

Krogrr and Produce are train wrecks of waste. Why not put at least a few of the blemished apples and oranges in the breakroom?

Criminy.

Date: Jan 8, 2019

Hunger and waste is a university/college professor issue. Socialism has been tried and failed. Capitalism has business cycles that fail us from time to time.

The question should be, which economic model has the lesser of the evils and most benefits to society, over the other economic models?

A podunk grocery chain has no expertise with this issue nor should it be doing community pet-projects like this.

I would not go to a Kroger store to have Kroger manager/minimum wage employees to be fitted with eyeglasses/contact lenses/cataract surgery. Why would it be any different with addressing economic models involving hunger?

You guys at Kroger should be better than this. This is why I've come to the conclusion there are lots of dumb people in charge at Kroger that have absolutely ZERO secondary education under their belts.

Now I know why labor unions exist.

I have to poop.

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mangobiscuit · Veteran Member

kroagrr wrote:
http://www.endfoodwaste.org/ugly-fruit---veg.html
Krogrr and Produce are train wrecks of waste. Why not put at least a few of the blemished apples and oranges in the breakroom?
Criminy.

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so these peaches and butternut squash are "ugly" cause they have a crack ? I'd still eat em. call me immature, but I'm laughing hysterically at this picture.

and they don't put them in the breakroom for us, cause Kroger wants them to sit in a red mash bag just to get thrown around by customers who realize they don't want it, and attract fruit flies once the flesh is exposed.

Date: Jan 16, 2019

Well, we mark the stuff down and put it in the red bags and people actually love it! If not, we have a special waste bin in the back for all other organic scraps (stale bread, rotten produce, vegetable leaves, vegetable stems, watermelon rinds, etc.)...Like it or not, food waste is a HUGE issue when you add up all the stores and restaurants that have to throw things away...And it's really bad whenever there is a food recall or a major power outage that renders the food spoiled or unsaleable...I remember back when the power grid blackout happened in 2003 here in the Midwest, we must have had 9 or 10 dumpsters at another chain I was working at FILLED TO THE BRIM with food we could no longer sell...One right after the other! Never thought I would ever see that happen, but it did!