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ubersaur · 2 months

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one weird part of my job is sometimes I get little old ladies with sweet hearts poking through the compost box on the bottom of my cart that tell me I shouldn't be throwing away what I am throwing away. Like yeah, I get it. Food waste sucks! I hate throwing anything away. But everything down there is rotting or bruised or withered or just ugly enough that I know it will sit on the shelf until it is rotting, bruised, and withered. I cannot mark it down, and you will not buy it at full price. "But poor people---!" Poor people deserve food that isn't moldy or bruised or withered or ugly! And afaik our company already donates actually edible food to pantries!

#this has happened a handful of times like yes i get it but please understand what you're actually asking for #call corporate if you are unhappy with our compost going to pig farmers as feed.#or that you'd like for us to implement a markdown system for produce (like we already have for meat/bread/etc)#i cannot do anything here store-side #just a vent dont mind meee #u #and jsut. the number of times i've told customers 'yeah this is still fully edible so if it's in your house looking like this then its fine #'but no on is going to buy it looking like this'#ANYWAY while I'm here if that site is still around that sells 'ugly produce' to reduce food waste it is a complete scam #produce is graded and ugly stuff that is still edible goes to plants that turn it into soups or jellies or various other products.#it doesn't get thrown away for being ugly unless it gets to a store and even then we do still try to sell it #and i purposefully put uglier shit where I know it'll get grabbed by ppl who dgaf.#thank you customers who dgaf!!!!!!!!! you're my favorite #ppl who dig to the bottom when there is new shit on the top: please fuck right off. you didn't even look. you didn't even try.

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