I work at one. Unfortunately you're not wrong. Mine is also in a food desert, a fact they take full advantage of. I've at least convinced them to let me donate outdated bread and dry/canned goods. They act like it's some grand fkn gesture while paying poverty wages and charging extortion prices

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I'm ready to start taking it back but I need to know I'm not gonna be the only one trying.

Take a look sometime at the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act. It protects donations made in good faith; liability only comes into play when ill intent is involved (i.e. purposely sending spoiled meat). That's how I was able to convince them for the little bit they've gone for so far.

I think the initial camera POV down the barrel did it. I felt the same way lol

There's nothing to expose; the local community is well aware how overpriced the store is. They promote themselves as a small independent chain while being owned by the largest grocery distributor in the US other than Walmart. It's disgusting, and I hate them for it. But I'm doing what I can to help from the inside to stop so much waste at least.

I'd love nothing more than to "expose" them, but there's literally nothing that can be done. Take solace in the fact that our grocery sales are actually down significantly and my guess is my particular location will be shuttered inside of a year.

Dude I feel this SO much. My job is pretty far from skilled (I work in a warehouse) so I don't really see too many places welcoming me with open arms due to my highly sought after qualifications

Neither. I can tell you we've been purchased twice in the last 8 months; we were purchased in february by a large grocery distributor, publicly traded, and then about 3 months ago they were purchased by the largest privately owned grocery distributor in the country in a 1.8 Billion dollar deal.

But yeah, they still ride the reputation of the small chain (think 12 stores in a small tristate region) and use that to justify their high prices. Management's answer to any complaint is always "we're a small local business, we don't have the purchasing power of a Walmart". Yeah, not entirely true. Not by a long shot.

I'd love to. But the way things are going around here, I might need that insider access to the bread lines.

yup