So in the middle of the night I got lost in this girl’s tik tok who dumpster dives at Whole Foods. She finds so much perfectly good food that didn’t even expire yet. pic.twitter.com/h7nWIT7gjE— Muted. Argue with yourself. (@___inCANdescent) December 12, 2021
(I never worked at WF but I did work at a hippy food style grocery store that did the same thing for years before a WF moved in. One of the few physical perks of working there was that we weren't required to throw away "unsellable" stuff, only stuff that we personally viewed as dangerous. So we'd try to hook up as many of our fellow workers as we could, but still wound up tossing stuff in the dumpster.)
The juices that looked like they were made on site are actually required to be "tossed" at the end of the night as they aren't pasteurized. This is pretty standard as far as US food safety codes are concerned.
Tossing perishable but prepackaged items that customers took from where they belonged but left where they weren't usually meant stuff was tossed. Like, a frozen pizza left out until it thawed, we just write off. Full carts of refrigerated items abandoned by customers would sometimes not get found by workers until well after the stuff warmed up, those would get tossed too.
Same thing can happen when receiving and stocking, somebody starts to break a pallet or stock a case of something, get pulled away for an hour, and comes back to find that nobody put away the ice cream they were stocking and its now melted.
Customers can and will lose their shit over single serving yogurt stuff being at or near their BB date. I always found that weird because... its yogurt, its literally food that is filled with bacteria and left to rot, that's why its cool.
(I never worked at WF but I did work at a hippy food style grocery store that did the same thing for years before a WF moved in. One of the few physical perks of working there was that we weren't required to throw away "unsellable" stuff, only stuff that we personally viewed as dangerous. So we'd try to hook up as many of our fellow workers as we could, but still wound up tossing stuff in the dumpster.)
The juices that looked like they were made on site are actually required to be "tossed" at the end of the night as they aren't pasteurized. This is pretty standard as far as US food safety codes are concerned.
Tossing perishable but prepackaged items that customers took from where they belonged but left where they weren't usually meant stuff was tossed. Like, a frozen pizza left out until it thawed, we just write off. Full carts of refrigerated items abandoned by customers would sometimes not get found by workers until well after the stuff warmed up, those would get tossed too.
Same thing can happen when receiving and stocking, somebody starts to break a pallet or stock a case of something, get pulled away for an hour, and comes back to find that nobody put away the ice cream they were stocking and its now melted.
Customers can and will lose their shit over single serving yogurt stuff being at or near their BB date. I always found that weird because... its yogurt, its literally food that is filled with bacteria and left to rot, that's why its cool.