I remember working at a grocery store years ago where i was asked to throw out some perfectly good food, and i was actually really hungry and hadn't got my check yet, so i put the food in my bag to take home and was confronted about it and accused of theft...how can it be theft when they considered it garbage and wanted it thrown out? They said i could either pay for the food and eat it, or throw it in the garbage, but that i couldn't eat the garbage for free. I could never understand why, it's absolutely cruel to throw out good food in front of a hungry person and not allow them to make use of it.
@itsmesia24697 жыл бұрын
Wooowww......
@itsmesia24697 жыл бұрын
That was really cruel and don´t make any sense at all.....
@NymphetaminexXxGrrrl6 жыл бұрын
I really don't understand it either.. it's bad enough to go hungry, but to be accused of theft and denied food that would be wasted? Just another way to kick someone while they are down.
@lockergr6 жыл бұрын
Did you explain to them that you were actually hungry? People are heartless. I would have gone back behind the store and dumpster dived.
@Oceiota6 жыл бұрын
In E.U. countries, they usually reduce the price to food that is about to expire and then when it's the day it does expire they have to try to donate it if it hasn't gone bad (and most foods tend to last more than what the expiration date would have you believe). So the employees are allowed to take expired food home and in big supermarkets you can usually find poor people waiting outside for the food that would be otherwise thrown away. There are poor and homeless even in relatively rich countries and it is ridiculous that companies would rather let people starve than give them their expired food that's actually still edible. Most of that expired food is still safe for human consumption! If someone has no money to eat, they seriously won't mind if their free food is past its expiration date.
@KMBrown-ro7dh5 жыл бұрын
The fact that they said that it is too many extra steps to get it to food pantries is just plain lazy!!!! I know plenty of pantries and shelters that have vehicles and volunteers that are willing to come and pick it up. Let’s stop with the excuses and do better!
@agirlinjeans775 жыл бұрын
Heck i will volunteer to deliver food
@shereygould93075 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. I am one of them. And maybe/hopefully things have changed with Walmart in general in the three years since this aired, but I can say from personal experience that in my very small town in northern California (7000 residents), Walmart donates hundreds of pounds of food to our food bank every week. In fact the very first day I drove the truck alone after training, there were 300+ pounds of bananas alone.
@Vertex-nm3ug5 жыл бұрын
@Tuho Giving unused food to charities rather than throwing eddible food is better.
@ironman23265 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@thehilaryglow5 жыл бұрын
Exactly! They just don't want to think about it... that was a very elusive, self-centered answer to begin with. You can't really talk sense into these people, they only care about their paycheck.
@sakminis4 жыл бұрын
*Puts on gloves* -I don't usually wear this when shopping. That didn't quite age well
@Thicc_Boi4 жыл бұрын
Ahead of the curve
@rebekah47614 жыл бұрын
I always get one of the produce bags or use a paper towel. With gloves, there is a lot of cross contamination that occurs.
@chainuser74013 жыл бұрын
oof
@bencethejew3 жыл бұрын
This didnt age well either
@Matt-kl7qc3 жыл бұрын
indeed
@TheRajarancho5 жыл бұрын
This is the kind of journalism that is needed. Changing things which helps the society. Kudos.
@simearsov7 жыл бұрын
well, I know where I'm going next time I visit Walmart
@Stella-js4bf6 жыл бұрын
Sime Arsov i
@tobiassol83436 жыл бұрын
Sime Arsov 😂
@flparrotz16 жыл бұрын
They have big dumpsters that you can't get in down here in florida.
@ZygimantasA6 жыл бұрын
We forgot to count fast food restaurants. They throw thousands of tons of food every week: Sandwiches, kebabs, chicken, fries, sauces etc. It's pretty sad.
@yossefworetaw46726 жыл бұрын
#1gfriend its like im in heaven lots of >> vegetables and fruits and some juice, frozen pizza, yogourt and most of them are 1 or 2 days before there expiration date >> there comercial is really true save money live better
@alexagurrola1704 жыл бұрын
Bless the man who is picking up the food in the dumpsters, he is helping the world by picking food that is still good :D
@viktorsayenko89533 жыл бұрын
YES
@TreiaSaint7 жыл бұрын
I worked for a trucking company and Walmart ended up not taking about 3 refrigerated trailers full of mixed salads and grapes. My boss had no idea what to do with them. I ended up filling up the back of my soul (to the front passenger seat) a few times just to take them to shelters and places I knew would appreciate them. Also they did that with a trailer of dog food (premium "organic and gluten free" dog food) the local animal shelters got SOOOO many pallets of food. This is not uncommon practice for them and honestly I don't think they care.
@natyspaghettighetti67266 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for doing that!
@madman2u6 жыл бұрын
That's very nice of you. Maybe you could do this more often to show that the thrown food you donate is still edible and that the companies throwing them away should focus at providing for those in need rather than wasting.
@marig19726 жыл бұрын
Good for you...I totally agree...Walmart doesn't care and a lot of other grocery stores don't either...Bottom line is money. :((( #Shameful
@adamas_dragon6 жыл бұрын
Great work! I would have done the same! ;D
@kellycastles51595 жыл бұрын
Well done for doing that
@ovenbird505 жыл бұрын
Any food returned to a store is never put on the shelves. It is trashed. I once saw a woman return containers of food she bought then decided to make her own from scratch. That food had to be thrown away because it was outside of their secure food distribution stream. If you change your mind about food, please do not return it to the store. Donate it to a food bank.
@christiecrawford16535 жыл бұрын
Or give it to a friend, put it in the break room at your job, etc.
@goldnnchild45205 жыл бұрын
But you ain't gonna get ya money back
@zavier36445 жыл бұрын
@@goldnnchild4520 you can keep it in your pantry then if that's such a big deal
@suides48105 жыл бұрын
or just give it to a random person next to you
@jju21315 жыл бұрын
We could only understand why stores won't put it back to selling shelves because of H&S protocols whic is reasonable. But stores like Walmart (which I'm sure not just this store waste food but many other big stores) could reassess their protocols in returned foods or any other foods that are still safe to consume.
@michellereed4794 жыл бұрын
This has been happening across the world for decades. 26 years ago when I was 8 years old I discovered that there was heaps of food/ fresh produce thrown way to my local supermarket (in Australia). I had 10 chickens and 24 guinea pigs as pets at the time so I used to collect the suitable fresh produce to feed my pets. When I showed my mum how I fed my pets so well she was amazed and disgusted, she couldn't believe how much waste there was. So we started to collect extra and dropped it off to a few local animal shelters, especially the shelter's with livestock. The shelters loved it, they would let me and my brother feed the animals and it made for a great childhood experience. We just couldn't let all the produce go to waste.
@NazriB10 ай бұрын
Lies again? Apex Predator Raise Pigs
@jbaby0077 жыл бұрын
There's no reason why anyone on earth should have to go hungry.
@itsmesia24697 жыл бұрын
Yes .... agree....!
@goodgardenersINTL6 жыл бұрын
No, especially with our HH-2 recycling and food growing system. ANYONE in Africa for example can grow food this way without any pests or diseases on their plants. It is a revolutionary technology but can we get it out there. None of the Biggies will sponsor us. It's practically disgraceful. AND as the Oxford professor says on his pod cast to us there is a deafening silence..... in this area. It makes you wonder why........see ggi.org.uk
@nutlover36096 жыл бұрын
Well hold on
@yahkemaj78185 жыл бұрын
You see these are the lies they are telling the public about world hunger but at the same time throwing away tons of food everyday and global warming when they are making the machines to create the global warming. Stop believing these lying devils they lie about absolutely everything in the world there is not over crowing of the planet either and they get away with it because people believe everything they are told and don't use their own common sense and do any investigation
@Koslita775 жыл бұрын
You are right, everyone should copy and imitate how nations with lots of food do to produce for everyone, like countries in America, and South America, who were poor, and work hard and for more than 12 hours a day to get a better life. God bless Peru, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Panama, Brazil, USA, Canada.
@PrinceChris937 жыл бұрын
Having grown up in foster care and not having food this just hurts
@itsmesia24697 жыл бұрын
:(
@anwarabdullah13046 жыл бұрын
PrinceChris93 it’s okay one day
@Koslita775 жыл бұрын
I lived with my parents and there wasn't food, It was 6 pm and my mother would not prepare anything, my father was away, my neighbors had worst time. I remember one day, they were so hungry, they found cabbage leaves and ate them with salt, with such a pleasure, and wash it down with water, that was the meal for the day. Stop complaining. If there were an extra bread I would save it, one day I had one in my pocket, sat on my old bed with my siblings, and a mouse got into my pocket; I got so scare; everyone laugh their heads off; but me.
@ritaassefa17784 жыл бұрын
Ohhh my God why they don't give for who don't have food and stuffing!
@shan227775 жыл бұрын
I worked at a Walmart bakery in Ontario, every single morning we would throw out 3-4 carts FULL of bakery goods alone.
@lordspongebobofhousesquare16164 жыл бұрын
why didn't the manager tell you to bake less goods? I mean it saves money so there's definitely an incentive for doing so
@shravanikumari69073 жыл бұрын
Walmart is doing good if it reaches the needy... Y not
@daffadillia20073 жыл бұрын
Me too, and if you were to keep it, your considered stealing it. I make me sick how much food is thrown out. I could be donated to people.
@brettdomenick6 жыл бұрын
I work at a bjs wholesale in the us, we donate everything we can. The particular store I work at gives our close to date or badly packaged foods to philabundance, an organization that supplies food kitchens in the Philadelphia area.
@thegigadykid16 жыл бұрын
Brett Domenick I respect that
@adamas_dragon6 жыл бұрын
Hehe BJs...
@amyleigh32776 жыл бұрын
I was also thinking of great business' that do the same.
@susanneseiler51136 жыл бұрын
@@adamas_dragon wholesale to lol
@tropicanahana5 жыл бұрын
I heard that it was a good company to work for, I had a cousin who worked there and said she was allowed to take home expired items also before they were donated.
@momomelons7 жыл бұрын
At the checkouts at my local Walmart, they were collecting donations for Feed the Children and accepting food donations for local homeless shelters. This is so ironic.
@1USAUSA7 жыл бұрын
+Amerie Welcome to Planet Earth. Things are not always what they seem. If you keep digging deeper for the truth, you will find this and more ironic things that will make your head spin. lol...
@athonynesbitt79566 жыл бұрын
Amerie Ash that dont make no sence a foodstore dont need donations to give food they have all the food kml
@krystakizito72446 жыл бұрын
Irony
@valeriecoleman97556 жыл бұрын
Exactly...yet throw theirs away
@vanilla72666 жыл бұрын
a good idea, if someone has access to the fresh packaged food, or processed food in the dumpsters, put it in the food donation bins so there is the slightest chance it might get used or eaten
@zahrarezaie96624 жыл бұрын
How much of this has changed since 2016? I'd love to see an update by CBC News.
@rotatorcuffs81404 жыл бұрын
Not much I would say. I used to work at this store called Fortinos (until last year anyway) and it was insane how much good food would get thrown away EVERY SINGE DAY. I felt really bad every time I had to do it, but it was store policy. You couldn't take home food about to be thrown away either as an employee, or you'd be accused of theft, which I though was also kinda messed up.
@JayBelafonte3 жыл бұрын
Only thing that has changed is that they are wasting even more food! This is just grocery stores not even including restaurants.
@faybradnock68055 жыл бұрын
I would understand if the food was mouldy or expired but throwing away PERFECTLY GOOD food is outrageous
@Marklapfeifer5 жыл бұрын
The only thing wrong with this video is that they make WAY TOO MUCH of a deal out of the expiration dates. Even if it's past the best-by date almost ALL THIS FOOD is still safe to consume for many additional days or even weeks. Heck, anything with sugar in it, like candy, can be eaten even a year after its best-by date and still be SAFE to eat. These dates are NOT about food safety but rather about the so-called MAXIMUM FRESHNESS of an item. That's all they are meant. NOT ABOUT FOOD SAFETY>
@sortathesame87014 жыл бұрын
@@Marklapfeifer Yes, much of it is safe to consume after the sell by date, but if you watch this channel enough, you will find their video's on how quickly bacteria and mold grow on foods that sold BEFORE their sell by dates. So in that case stores cannot win for losing with these folks! The problem is not whether or not the food could safely be eaten, but whether or not the stores have liablity if someone should get sick from food past it's date. Plus there is a huge expense, an extra layer of cost, to packaging up and finding someone to take food past it's date. Shelters and food banks cannot take it, because THEY don't want to risk lawsuits. They cannot take anything within three months of its expiration date, because donated food doesn't get distributed immediately and they cannot give out expired foods, so most would end up in the trash anyway and they don't have the man power to sort and trash it. People do not go to grocery stores and pay good money for expired foods and who could blame them for that! The problem is much larger and more difficult than it appears on the surface.
@petervansan10544 жыл бұрын
@krepnata kadara so?
@byronchavarria49542 жыл бұрын
They Should Just Give The Food To The Seagulls
@zenzeleluckymtshali8433 Жыл бұрын
its nearly every city in the wotrld issue as with prices kicked out to buy difficulty prices to lower michelin write ins..quickly...where do u stand for that in tghe shop not outside who is doin the fauklt..yes who...the boss i the shop...
@patshhi46206 жыл бұрын
I used to work in a grocery store. One night, while I was pulling bread that was to expire the next day, I asked the deli manager if maybe we could donate that bread to a soup kitchen or someplace like that. He said he would love to do that, and that he used to sell the bread to a pig farmer at a deep discount. Apparently, somewhere along the line the store got sued. That’s all it took for the company who owned the store to change policy (he had even let us take a loaf of expired bread every night). Everything had to be tossed. It would be nice if the government would inact some sort of legislation stating that no one could be sued for giving away food for free. As this video shows, there is a lot of good food that is wasted. Let’s make some noise so all that food won’t be wasted !!
@marisacherry83285 жыл бұрын
This has already been passed and its called the good Samaritan law. They cant be sued, its just an excuse they use, typically its worth more money to throw the food out and claim it as a business loss than admit it wont sell before the sell by date
@snideremark5 жыл бұрын
My church gets bread from panera. We have to put a sticker on every one of them before we give it away saying that the bread was a donation, not to be sold.
@gerikyang17805 жыл бұрын
Actually the Good Samaritan law in Canada refers to bystanders giving first aid to a stranger in medical distress, not to protect against liability when donating food...
@henrichvonstaufenberg48415 жыл бұрын
Expired food is not good food
@angelika_munkastrap46345 жыл бұрын
As was shown Andrei, most food thrown away is not expired. People weren't talking about expired, just best before or day old or sometimes just with packaging that's dented or damaged, nothing wrong with food inside. And don't always go by the expired date either, that sometimes only means they've only tested to that date and not beyond and sometimes things are fine even a week afterwards, believe me I should know
@DJ-yz4fe3 жыл бұрын
They should put those foods into a super sale like 80% off. It could have helped people who are on a limited budget
@adachi40433 жыл бұрын
The reason why they didn't do that is to stay...idk expensive. Cause when they give 80 percent off, people will always expect to buy it in that price instead and they will wait to buy always with a discount. Cause example for me, why would I buy the 100% price when I could wait for 80% off at the end of the day?
@DJ-yz4fe3 жыл бұрын
@@adachi4043 imagine making a spaghetti and waiting for the spaghetti sauce to go on sale
@adachi40433 жыл бұрын
@@DJ-yz4fe yeah, that's what I'll do especially if the discount is high
@Benary962 жыл бұрын
@@adachi4043 that's not I really true some stores actually do discount at a very substantial rate it's just his mostly Mom and Pop type grocery stores not a box store like Walmart or Kroger's or something like that
@Spookex1667 жыл бұрын
1. Make friends with the people who throw the food out. 2. Convince them to give it to you. 3. Free food for life.
@APerson-ui5zq6 жыл бұрын
4. give the money you dont have to spend to poors (safe organisation or directly )
@theishaanandankitashow4 жыл бұрын
Very Interesting!
@shikha52463 жыл бұрын
I may do this now. I spend $20 per week on groceries. Spending 0$ be great though 🤔
@SK-ck9qu2 жыл бұрын
But what if you became sick from eating that food. I bet you would gladly sue the corporation.
@letsdiscussitoversometea847911 ай бұрын
@@SK-ck9qu how do you imagine that that would happen?? Would it instead have to have been _purchased_ to be edible?? Or is it the fact that it wasn't *_purchased_* that's (really) the problem? Think of it this way; You buy an item of food 5 or 10 minutes before the shop closes. You then take half an hour getting back home with it. Does that mean that the food has gone off in those 20 minutes since the shop closed?? The argument is flawed!!
@carmenroupp6536 жыл бұрын
All the stores would have to do is make a phone call to the church or food banks and I am sure they would come pick up the food to feed to the poor who can not afford to feed their families.
@suides48105 жыл бұрын
carmen roupp Yup they could even put it up so that other people can just take it but no thats iLLegAl
@notmyname25073 жыл бұрын
but the poor people shop at walmart, the business model is based on artificial scarcity, next they are gonna tell you overpopulation is the cause of climate change
@dreamrabbits50722 жыл бұрын
Yeah but what if it was sitting out of the fridge for a long time... or returned? It may look like they're randomly throwing away shelves full of food for no reason, but there is a reason. Most of the time the food is spoiled because it's been left out. That has potential to make people sick.
@billmartins5545 Жыл бұрын
A lot of these items retire refrigeration and food banks don't generally provide this.
@Spiritueli3 жыл бұрын
Watching this makes me so sad, how little appreciation, truly people have in respect to food.
@malacki65545 жыл бұрын
Just because food is oddly shaped or a few days past its best before date doesn't mean its bad to eat. It should be illegal to waste good food,instead of throwing it in the trash or dumping it in landfill,how about supermarkets sell it cheaper,compost it or donate it to food banks!!!
@barbfrontczak17915 жыл бұрын
I totally agree with you on the subject of food waste. There are so many who can barely afford groceries and stores are just throwing it away.
@treacherousviper5 жыл бұрын
Food can't be be sold after the sale by date no matter what it looks like
@sortathesame87014 жыл бұрын
In the US, there are very few programs where you can donate food that is close to it's sell by date. Food banks take it if it is within 3 months of the date, but after that they cannnot do so, because it takes time to distribute that food. Same for shelters. None of them can use or give away food that is past it's sell by date for fear of lawsuits. My father's church goes and picks up food from places such as Starbucks and some other food oriented places near them and that food is immediately frozen and given away on a specific Friday of every months. But even then, sometimes much of it ends up being taken home by church members because people coming to the church for help don't really want food, they want money. Social programs, state and federal, provide food or money for food for free to the poor, what they don't give a lot of is money and people want money to pay for their phones, their cable, their internet or their alcohal and drugs. The areas where the true poor are in America, the Appalachian mountains, etc. cannot be reached by the programs you are talking about. At the very least, food waste should be seperated from other waste and sold cheaply for food to pig farmers where ever possible!
@charlesmurphy15104 жыл бұрын
Malacki 655 illegal to throw your own food? What’s next?
@willn86644 жыл бұрын
@@charlesmurphy1510 can you finish your food instead of throw it away?
@plumbingstuffinoregon24716 жыл бұрын
Wow! I could probably live off the food that's thrown out behind my local Walmart! Now let's just hope I don't get caught.
@cjmurray58066 жыл бұрын
Once they throw it in the garbage, its anybody's!
@timothyclift59455 жыл бұрын
Just take a can of mace
@ldygzlle12915 жыл бұрын
Rob, the guy from Orlando in the video, will help you if you have legal troubles from diving.
@incanada835 жыл бұрын
@@timothyclift5945 I would HAVE to! LOL We got bears LOL
@suides48105 жыл бұрын
Ldygzlle two girls from germany might now face jailtime for it! Be careful
@ladycrystalr-u.s.a2 жыл бұрын
Over 20 years ago my grandma and my siblings would go dumpster diving for food to supplement our food stamps. We were pleasantly surprised by what we found.
@jacksonwangsfan86816 жыл бұрын
I went dumpster diving with my cousin (it’s actually pretty fun) We found a lot of food, that wasn’t even close to be expired.
@yoleeisbored5 жыл бұрын
damnn.. bring me along with you guys
@paulinedivingdeepincincinn19624 жыл бұрын
I DUMPSTER dive i have a youtube channel on this
@joyfulsoul45375 жыл бұрын
Why can't the grocery stores just give it to employees? I work in a store and I have to throw good food every morning. It makes me so sad. People are dying because of hunger.
@suides48105 жыл бұрын
Anna Bhatta because they are greedy capitalists I dont even get any benefits at the Supermarket i work at.
@davidmcnelley86724 жыл бұрын
I know how you feel, that’s why when I worked at a store that sold food I refused to throw out anything good.
@utubestalker.dotcom4 жыл бұрын
because they likely know what is wrong with them. else, the employees would take them home. there's always 2 sides of the story. you are only seeing what the dumpster diver and media see
@jessefisher18094 жыл бұрын
The correct answer is that if you give free food to your employees... they wont buy it from you. So as a business you're losing out on that money.
@SunnyGirlFlorida4 жыл бұрын
Giving returned or expired food is a liability for the company. And it promotes unscrupoulous employees throwing things out on purpose, so they can get it free. I worked in a clothing store where district manager had to watch us destroy and dispose of returned items, so that was not abused for employee gain.
@melissasturgis3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad that he's doing this because people are going hungry. I need some of this food for myself, my daughter, my neighbors, my family, and others that I know.
@llamaliammm5 жыл бұрын
On a sidenote, im obsessed with this series and im not even canadian. Such interesting investigations
@nancymoraa27223 жыл бұрын
Me too! Greetings from Germany
@spraystruck13752 жыл бұрын
Same
@empresssk2 жыл бұрын
Same. In the US
@hayleygrimes880410 ай бұрын
Same!
@barbfrontczak17915 жыл бұрын
My grandma taught me not to waste anything. She grew up during the depression. She later on had 9 children to feed,and this video would shock her so much. I believe that yes all the food should be donated. The reason companies don't is because it's all about money. They don't want to get sued if someone gets sick off donated food.
@reece_harding Жыл бұрын
That's actually never happened
@eginteractive3 жыл бұрын
The problem is, a lot of the "waste" in the bins are things that people picked out, and then didn't want so they put it on a random shelf (not back in the refrigerators they got the items from). This is why your predominately see perishable / refrigerated food in these bins. I worked for Walmart, and it's about limiting liability. If you put a frozen meal that's been sitting on an unrefrigerated shelf back in the freezer, depending on if it's had time to thaw, it can actually develop mold very quickly. Our stores official policy was that if it's sitting on a shelf, even if it's still cool, it gets binned because you can't be sure how long it was sitting out. The store I worked at had composting bins that all this food would go into. Canned / dry goods never got pitched unless they were expired, and even then we had a discount bin where they were marked down, so it's not every store. I agree it's a problem, but there's actually context to why food gets disposed of by grocery stores.
@shaneruddock-pedallingtheg81146 жыл бұрын
i hardly ever buy my food anymore. i live out of bins. it is fun. just buy a bin key off ebay and most of your worries are done with. i stick to convenience stores especially that dont keep it behind barbed wire fences. its disgusting that we hide the problem behind dangerous fences under camera sometimes even punish those that eat it. I plan to only eat like this for the next year see how much money i save. maybe itll be enough to travel a few countries
@whyjustwhy21685 жыл бұрын
Bin key 🔑?
@timothyclift59455 жыл бұрын
So this key your talking about is a universal key or something like that does it work on padlock 🔐
@brysoncherry98845 жыл бұрын
Critical thinking at its finest. Odinspeed.
@ladyb91085 жыл бұрын
Shane Ruddock - Pedalling the Globe how’s it going so far? I didn’t know about the key, I will have to look this up 👍🏼
@suides48105 жыл бұрын
I myself and me In germany two girls might now face jail time... what a shame
@seriousspaceparty60378 жыл бұрын
Thank-you Marketplace for exposing a huge problem!
@ekop17786 жыл бұрын
THEY DONT DO THIS OVERSEAS THEY SAVE ALL THE UNUSED STUFF FOR THE POOR AMERICA IS OPPOSITE
@isakjohansson71346 жыл бұрын
E Kop They waste it allover the world
@serenellis69934 жыл бұрын
watching in April 2020, the gloves thing aint that weird anymore
@johnsaunders88824 жыл бұрын
Don Mega pissoff
@beavisroadhog96293 жыл бұрын
Yeah, they still are.
@andrewisvrycool3 жыл бұрын
Now its masks
@UrbanHomesteadMomma6 жыл бұрын
This actually makes me want to cry... we are a food insecure family... we struggle to buy food because much is too expensive for us... to see such waste hurts
@_EthanBaca Жыл бұрын
This breaks my heart. 💔 May God bless you and your family.
@michaelyun2407 Жыл бұрын
And if I tell that cart of milk or tahr watermelon or that pack of pasta or that yogurt was returns by customer and we put it back on the shelf to sell will you buy it? Not knowing if the food is been tempered with or is it good and haven't gone bad? Not only if the store did that and customer for sick the store gets sue and no one wants to buy them
@michaelgalarza99547 жыл бұрын
Is illegal to shoplift , but throwing food alway in the garbage is ok , is this world nuts or what ? 😠
@itsmesia24697 жыл бұрын
Totally agree...... a really crazy world....
@CheapSushi6 жыл бұрын
AND they often ask for donations at these places for food banks. So you use your money to buy goods and then donate. All while the same place is throwing out a ton of good food.
@jesseluciano13886 жыл бұрын
its a scam, cant play fair in this world period
@Bobrogers993 жыл бұрын
With many foods, exceeding the "best by" or "sell by" date doesn't mean it's unsafe to eat. The flavor or texture may be affected by age but it's still edible. People throw away perfectly good food because they're programmed to think that it is in some way "expired".
@pteechka1 Жыл бұрын
Not sure if they are "programmed" to think that, they just assume that.
@shazizz7 жыл бұрын
This world makes absolutely no sense to me. I am at a loss for words. :(
@tanwodan36896 жыл бұрын
it a spoil expiry food or almost expiry. yeah i also feel it waste, it can be a fertilizer for tree. but it illegal to take it in supermarket during throwing.
@honesttruthblessing52066 жыл бұрын
They do it here as well
@FalenAnjel26 жыл бұрын
Everyone votes with their wallet and money is what makes sense for investors/ stockholders, bosses, chair people... etc.
@darxlord78576 жыл бұрын
shazizz I agree and we need to do something about it
@charliemanner19146 жыл бұрын
shazizz MONEY
@sensei94377 жыл бұрын
It should be illegal to throw out that much food. I've been so poor before that I had to eat only once a day, if that, for nearly a year. It appalls me that this happens when there are people out there starving, families starving, because the costs are so high.
@chloemarshall85746 жыл бұрын
It is illegal in France
@marig19726 жыл бұрын
Totally agree...Me too! Been there done that.
@brendanschwartz19294 жыл бұрын
3 years since this was posted and nobody has still taken action. 😢
@Bebedollie4 жыл бұрын
Thats sad.
@darrekcoates93063 жыл бұрын
Because to take action would be to challenge capitalism and most people aren't ready for that conversation
@notmyname25073 жыл бұрын
they hide it better every year, the iga renovated and doubled it size and added a compactor to protect the wasted food from hungry people
@rayfire505 жыл бұрын
Seeing this there should be no such thing as being hungry
@brysoncherry98845 жыл бұрын
It's about distribution methods and availability. Not about food quantity. It's hard getting food to undeveloped countries,especially the wartorn ones.
@DestructiveBurn8 жыл бұрын
The homeless would love that place.
@TripMcSleazestack8 жыл бұрын
I would pooh in all the bins!
@DestructiveBurn8 жыл бұрын
TripMcSleazestack You nasty
@DestructiveBurn7 жыл бұрын
Sarah Lunafire You need details? Really? It's all good food. It's not mixed with actual garbage. It's just put into bins. It's still good. Instead of throwing it out. Give it to the homeless and donate the rest to others that need it.
@MrBeard177 жыл бұрын
Now you know why you see the homeless peoples tents within a short walking distance away.
@Ari-gm9gk6 жыл бұрын
TripMcSleazestack really
@gary7846 Жыл бұрын
There's a "lotte mart" near my home, basically a ghost mall. But the supermarket are always so complete, you can find everything there. I can only imagine how much are thrown away
@SW20FL7 жыл бұрын
This isn't just Walmart. It's almost every place that makes food. Every store. Every restaurant (high quality or fast food. Doesn't matter). The problem is US law. It's a legal minefield when you give food away. Give someone some food, they get sick and you have a law suit on your hands..over free food. Now you have the potential to lose your business. This is a problem, but there's more to it. This is just scratching the surface.
@Marklapfeifer6 жыл бұрын
Heh, I almost agree with you. These dumpsters and compactors are really tools of the devil.
@JSkyGemini6 жыл бұрын
916david, it's true. People are trying to present this as a black & white issue but it's not that simple in the real world. I would also have thought if you went on their property and took even garbage, that would be theft. If it's at the curb, no but it looked like the media had strolled onto private property. It's surprising to see the expiry dates in the garbage because the Walmart near me has past expiry dated items on the shelf.
@jelicianorwood246 жыл бұрын
@@JSkyGemini Yeah its deeper than that. People out here hungry
@baronvonlimbourgh17166 жыл бұрын
This is complete nonsense. This is what company's keep saying but it simply isn't true.
@baronvonlimbourgh17166 жыл бұрын
@Amy Sternheim yes, this.
@artaria227 жыл бұрын
Damn....people are starving on the streets and we are wasting food. Ugh...
@athonynesbitt79566 жыл бұрын
Nehthelania Jackson i know right, by the way your very beautiful
@squidward4206 жыл бұрын
Nehthelania Jackson they should make a shelf that have a 50% discount and sell after best before date but not expired food
@athonynesbitt79566 жыл бұрын
@@squidward420 your right bro
@Alice-mr2gf5 жыл бұрын
It's also created a lot greenhouse gas, too.
@Jayneswoolandbuttons4 жыл бұрын
This food could feed the homeless.
@kaboomwinn40264 жыл бұрын
The homeless population will grow and they will travel far to get free food
@lotus_flower20013 жыл бұрын
If one of them gets poisoned they can sue the company that gave them the food. It's why restaurants don't give away leftover food.
@ZealandiaMapping6 жыл бұрын
Thankfully, I work in Big Lots, and we never do stuff Walmart does with their food. If the product is damaged (chips and crackers mostly) and the date is fine, we reduce the price by 1/3 the original price.. If the best by date is a month away, we reduce the price by 1/2. Once the item is expired, we put it in a shopping cart labeled for donations. Once a week, we have a woman who will come pick it up and take it to the local shelter in town. Something as simple as this can not only reduce waste, but help your community as well. Even if the product is expired, as long as everything is taken care of, most products will last an extra week at most. :3
@Food-Dharma5 жыл бұрын
Zealandia Mapping I never know this about big lot. I hope that’s a companywide policy and not just specific to your store. I rarely shop at Big Lot, but that will change. Thanks for sharing this info.
@xkuqgamingtutorial22247 жыл бұрын
And people complain about global hunger
@oldtwinsna83476 жыл бұрын
It's different when you have a dictator in control of a country that literally steals all the food given to them by "caring" countries when it was supposed to be distributed to the poor.
@suffer4fashion4 жыл бұрын
When I worked at Walmart, we threw a lot of stuff away because of inconsiderate shoppers. People would load a shopping cart up and then abandon it for some ungodly reason. Everything that is refrigerated had to be dumped because the store can't accept the potential liability that it may have spoiled. I was also surprised at how much-returned food was brought back. I vividly remember the day a woman walked in and threw $40 of steaks on the counter while demanding a refund. She made a mistake and had left them in her car in July heat for a few days.
@heatherlynsey30923 жыл бұрын
Ughhhhhh the meat just pisses me off, how do you buy $40 worth of steaks and just forget them?!
@saveUyghurs7 жыл бұрын
North America, the continent of waste and excess. There is no food waste in my home. We respect our food, only buy what we need and eat everything we buy.
@eternalobi6 жыл бұрын
not just in NA there is waste food everywhere in the world
@i.88855 жыл бұрын
I do that too... And I've never seen supermarkets throwing food in my country
@rachelfrench58378 жыл бұрын
they should donate the food
@rachelfrench58378 жыл бұрын
Lots of people starving
@bp93928 жыл бұрын
The reason they don't donate food is because throwing it away is more profitable. If you scan it and throw it away, the individual Walmart is partially reimbursed. If you donate it, you are not making that profit.
@RicJG78 жыл бұрын
They would rather have money for themselves than give it to people that need it even though they make millions already. We shouldn't be surprised though because the Jesus said that there would be food shortages in the time in which we live in (Matthew 24:7) Just thinking though... you have to be very evil to deny donating food or be moved to donate food to starving people who need it the most. The outcome for those kinds of people is mentioned in Proverbs 2:22.
@jcrowley19858 жыл бұрын
Donations can get them tax writeoffs and incentives. There is no excuse to throw it out.
@RicJG78 жыл бұрын
Yea but people don't think like that. Don't worry though have a read of those scriptures and you will receive a measure of happiness when you know what will become of them
@CC123982 жыл бұрын
This was an extremely thorough well done report thank you!
@EricZhaoYT7 жыл бұрын
Now I can go grocery shopping for free! Just look in the garbage!
@sabrina287 жыл бұрын
lol right
@ruthsenouci50487 жыл бұрын
Eric Zhao haha this is what I was thinking about just now
@tranlily30017 жыл бұрын
+werise55 This, ppl who still can afford food, need buy food. All these food bin (as market, gorvenment count as out of date food) need collect them if they're still can use, then give it to fund or poor ppl. I don't mean poor ppl or homeless only deserves out-date food. I mean as long the food still can use, it's just not look beautiful or fresh, as long as it not bad or harmful. Need collect these out date aka food-bin, give them to fund center so they can cook them to give ppl free meals or give it for poor/homeless ppl. (I don't speak English well) As long as you can buy or afford food, please buy the food, don't use food-bin. I mean that.
@LadyBeritanavatarius7 жыл бұрын
Why not? They are being highly wasteful, throwing out perfectly good products, and adding to the landfills needlessly. It's disgusting, why should all of that go to waste?
@cutiepie30127 жыл бұрын
But most grocery stores lock their dumpsters
@sillytea80846 жыл бұрын
They could have donated that food too homeless shelters instead of throwing it away. Lots of people could use that food.
@Koslita775 жыл бұрын
If someone in the shelter gets stomach ache; they will sue the donors; that is why they do not donate. but you can pick up that food.
@MrBilioner5 жыл бұрын
@@Koslita77 I can imagine homeless people ate way worse food,but again not a solution to throw the food. They still can DONATE not throw it I dont care how crazy is the reason
@johnl12955 жыл бұрын
If they gave the food away, it would ruin the whole illusion of value on this planet. They would rather those homeless folks pick themselves by the bootstraps, pop a medley of pills, put a nice shirt on and go to work to get their boss a nice BMW, that way they can buy a sandwich that would be put in the trash tomorrow, but for 8 dollars! And 5 of those dollars goes back to their boss with the BMW.
@gaslitworldf.melissab28975 жыл бұрын
Corporate America wants to convince us of "scarcity" and yet tons of food can feed whole villages. Time, energy, natural resources etc go to waste. It's obscene.
@jju21315 жыл бұрын
The reason why they don't donate is costing them more money. But there are ways to do it without cost which is their failure to find solution.
@Jadegreen4 жыл бұрын
My mom works at Walmart and you can’t put returned food back on the shelf. So that’s probably what is happening.
@user-cz6yf6hg4i4 жыл бұрын
@krepnata kadara maybe the food didn't taste right or wasnt what that person was looking for
@priscillajimenez274 жыл бұрын
@@user-cz6yf6hg4i wasn't what the person was looking for shouldn't be a reason to return food
@marijana.majic.4 жыл бұрын
In Croatia we cannot return food. It's really unbelievable you can.
@laurent34152 жыл бұрын
Exactly. If it's a cold item either left laying about or given back at the cash resgister, or was any item brought back from a customer's home, it goes in the trash. If it was a non perishable item picked up around the store in the wrong place it would be sorted by the overnight crew and placed back to the shelf.
@stephanieg85452 жыл бұрын
It’s hard for me to imagine that much food is returned. Who returns food unless there’s something seriously wrong with it?
@dannyosolo27526 жыл бұрын
We must feed the poor&homeless
@taylorbritt4995 жыл бұрын
@KingMacintosh working class people with 3 jobs falls under "poor" in "poor and homeless"
@machi-full-of-coffee6 жыл бұрын
watching this from a developing country is sooooooo painful..
@thegigadykid16 жыл бұрын
Machi fr
@einahpets73915 жыл бұрын
Im watching it from the Philippines, and this hurts so much. Blueberries like the box he opened and tasted goes for $10 here. So so much waste.
@JoshJudgement5 жыл бұрын
Welcome to North America, enjoy your stay! Don’t forget to be extra wasteful and indulgent on things you don’t need!
@helenabayato47475 жыл бұрын
I know.
@moodini995 жыл бұрын
Live in a better one, then
@stacyely87224 жыл бұрын
I used to work at a Walmart in the bakery, and it was one of the few departments that sent food to food banks, this is in the US. So cakes, bread, donuts, etc, would go to the nearest food pantry at the end of the day. Most other departments had to throw the stuff out, unless it was canned or heavily preserved. They send more now, and can write it off as a charitable donation, but if you want any of it and you need it because they don't pay enough to make ends meet, they would fire you for stealing. I never understood that policy. Employees routinely have trouble making ends meet, and they should get first dibs if they need it. Like if they're on food stamps, they should get first dibs on stuff that would just get tossed anyway.
@renamamiya51156 жыл бұрын
meanwhile I just ate 2 week expired bread (still good tastes fresh) and half a year expired peanut butter (also still good) and this morning had a blueberry banana (over ripened dark skinned) and a 3 day expired yogurt.. (still good) I dont understand people wasting food at all. if it doesn't smell and if you can still eat it dont throw it! take out the rotten part and eat the rest thats still edible. I grew up all my life in Canada and have always been disappointed when I see people waste food whether in fast food or grocery. (used to work in Real Canadian Superstore and Walmart.) I'm proud how my parents raised me, how they taught me not to waste food and more. edited: I just realized the walmart they shown in the video (Edmonton) is 7-10 min away where I live and I always go there for grocery or clothing. now they gave me an idea to either ask or just go right ahead and dive at the back see if they have thrown out food thats still edible instead of buying. -_-
@flammaferus29984 жыл бұрын
I'm often diving behind the supermarket at night. Quality food!
@fernand01678 жыл бұрын
im gonna start shopping at walmarts trash cans now
@joaquimrodriguez89616 жыл бұрын
you, an I will have to fight over. it
@darxlord78576 жыл бұрын
joaquim Rodriguez Im joining in boi
@darxlord78576 жыл бұрын
joaquim Rodriguez How about all of us get a share/split
@tronixfix6 жыл бұрын
joaquim Rodriguez ...with the raccoons
@letmeexplain18166 жыл бұрын
fernand0 .....they will have their rubbish all locked and behind bars after this documentary, I can guarantee it😂😂😂😂😂
@lingth4 жыл бұрын
I thought they will put it on the "REDUCED TO SELL" section, to cut the prices to sell it off faster.
@danor68123 жыл бұрын
That's for the items that they can sell. If say the water bottles were near a pipe the was leaking. They can't be sure the water isn't contaminated. So they can't sell it even if the outside may have some kind of bacteria on it. Because someone could get sick, and that's a lawsuit.
@MonkeyDelicious8 ай бұрын
Manufacturers don't want their product sold at a discount.
@gerikyang17805 жыл бұрын
A lot of “perfectly good food” needs to be thrown out for our very stringent food safety reasons. If someone buys a package of steak, leaves the grocery store for an hour, and returns the steak later, it can’t be put back on the shelf. We have no idea if anything was done to the steak or if it was kept at the proper temperature. Would you buy steak knowing that it was taken out of the store to an unknown location by a stranger? Trust me, grocery store managers stress out over food that needs to be thrown out. It costs money and is wasteful. Consumers are very, very picky in North America. If you leave 6 bruised apples out for sale, it’s almost a guarantee that no one will buy those apples. When you’re dealing with the public, you encounter a lot of lazy people as well. Refrigerated items abandoned on random shelves need to be thrown out if they’re not found in time.
@snflwrchan80195 жыл бұрын
Here in where I live, instead of throwing it all away, stuff like that are sold at way lower prices. And buyers are well aware of the risk that comes with buying them.
@therealtedcruz88974 жыл бұрын
@@snflwrchan8019 that also happens at some independent grocery stores but the big ones like Walmart, metro, and costco don't practice it.
@dhrgkbqxtjr27434 жыл бұрын
Still doesn't explain why the food can't be donated. Beggars aren't picky.
@CyclingMartialartswithMusic2 жыл бұрын
@@dhrgkbqxtjr2743 donated or shelved out food can lead to lawsuit thats why.
@ebriggs3498 Жыл бұрын
@@dhrgkbqxtjr2743 yup; lawsuits!
@marvanbee5 жыл бұрын
CBC, I'd LOVE an update on this for 2019/2020!!
@sortathesame87014 жыл бұрын
Why? It was just a short documentary meant to shock people, but in reality it didn't tell us anything. We do not know the story behind any of that waste. Walmart doesn't just throw out profit. If it was in the bin there is a reason it was there. It might be a return, past it expiration date, left on a random shelf to get warm or cold beyond safe rules. It could be recalled, it could be opened and left on a shelf, dented cans and more. Cross contamination is huge in the food business! A bag of potatoes with one rotten one cannot be sold! And it costs far too much to open that bag, clean it up well enough for sale and put it back on the shelf! Would YOU chose a potato that had been cleaned after being in contact with a rotten potato if you know the story behind that potato and there was a perfectly good on right there to purchase? Of course not!
@rotatorcuffs81404 жыл бұрын
Short answer: same story. Ask anyone that works at a grocery store, not a secret what happens.
@maryfiaola36864 жыл бұрын
@@helloksiei probably works at walmart
@billmartins5545 Жыл бұрын
No you don't. Thanks to COVID.
@christinerobinson93723 жыл бұрын
In the US laws were passed to prohibit the sale of marked-down produce. In my first job and my first apartment, the mark-down bin was the first place I headed to in the grocery store, I might not have survived without it. It saved me all kinds of money and provided me with perfectly healthy fresh produce that might have needed a little bit trimmed off. Dumpster diving is now legal in all 50 states, but local municipalities may prohibit it.
@ajmomoho8 жыл бұрын
I worked at Walmart in Produce. Doing "throws" was the part of the job which involved scanning food out of the inventory system and then throwing it out. I distinctly remember watching my co-worker fill an entire industial sized garbage bin with just strawberries, with probably 90-95% of them being perfectly fine. On the other hand we did at times take some of the "throws" and put them in assorted bags sold at $1.00 each. Still though, what was in this video as far as food waste goes, rings very true.
@margieo15078 жыл бұрын
Thats sad!!!
@RoyalCaymanian7 жыл бұрын
Young ADV I don't blame them. I collect binned items all the time from supermakets. There was a cool Asian worker who would usually give it to me before tossing it, even against store policy.
@你老婆-c5l7 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't it be nice if Walmart let employees take some of that food home.
@686Nadeau7 жыл бұрын
I used to work as dairyman/ dairy manager in a grocery store in canada "IGA" and tried multiple time talking to my superior about food wasting, giving them solution (local organisation giving food to less fortunate would've taken this food for free. they bring couple of bins, we call them when its full and they give you back empty bins). Always ended with the same answer, it would cost more to do something about it than wasting. We were often told to throw something good just because its discontinued or simply to make place for new products. Other grocery store in this area have so much wasting they have an extra industrial size refregirator for that.
@Mrazzakov7 жыл бұрын
As a Produce manager at Walmart, it is ACTUALLY cheaper (free) to donate the food rather than composting it out (~$500 per bin), or even throwing it in the trash (~$800 bin ). So not sure if it was a while ago, but in the USA, donations are very much active and encouraged.
@MewWolf58 жыл бұрын
It's great to be in our privileged position of having access to lots of food...but this economy of excess that ends in so much waste is frankly disgusting.
@1USAUSA8 жыл бұрын
+MewWolf5 Disgusting to the max. I learned that all the food wasted in the U.S.A. in one year alone can FEED all the people living in AFRICA for a MONTH. That's how much good food is thrown away - tons and tons and tons. A lot of that has to do with GOBERMINT!!!!!! They encourage wastefulness.
@sanyaua27 жыл бұрын
Muh white provilege
@sanyaua27 жыл бұрын
If President does it, it is NOT ILLEGAL by the time it gets to Africa it would have went bad. Makes for a great platitude though
@bdgoins16 жыл бұрын
AT Fly It's privilege learn to spell
@SuperMosesfly4 жыл бұрын
we (taiwan) give them to the homeless, the ones just passed best before, all is well until someone tried to scam them by suing them big time AFTER receiving free food, so now ppl r too scared to give.
@priscillajimenez274 жыл бұрын
Messed up people gotta ruin it for everyone
@imperialguardsman43613 жыл бұрын
that's why returned or near expiration food isn't donated in Canada or the US.
@bambimountaineggo1937 жыл бұрын
I work at a bakery and we donate all of our 2 day old bread to a food pantry, so none of our bread goes to waste
@umidjabbar37546 жыл бұрын
Bambi Mountaineggo that’s great
@andrewisvrycool3 жыл бұрын
Good for you! You guys actually have common sense
@kubotaman857 жыл бұрын
Why don't grocery store give that stuff to local food banks?
@JDBlessin7 жыл бұрын
They do. Grocery stores donate more to food banks than any other entity.
@daniellamoreno36166 жыл бұрын
kubotaman85 well some do depends what state or country.
@christopherfortineux69376 жыл бұрын
Most don't because they can be held liable for bad food hurting someone...
@kevina.22696 жыл бұрын
Christopher Fortineux They actually can't be held liable
@lockergr6 жыл бұрын
The answer is stated right in the video. It cost too much. Of course that's not an excuse in any way and there are simple solutions that could rectify the problem.
@infernalmedia17844 жыл бұрын
This got a bit preachy towards the end, Rip tomato guy.
@Coolsomeone2346 жыл бұрын
2:01 WTF why would someone chuck out water bottles! They don't look opened
@maverick19936 жыл бұрын
Some times lazy stuff leave raw food or may spill stuff so it could be cross contamination.
@youtubechannel-uz9sh5 жыл бұрын
Exactly water doesn't even ever expire
@chunkchips45545 жыл бұрын
Water does not expire but plastic bottles do..
@youtubechannel-uz9sh5 жыл бұрын
@@chunkchips4554 ok but why didn't they use the water inside because now there is water in the trash.
@peterreid60965 жыл бұрын
@@chunkchips4554 yes!! It makes the water taste disgusting.
@anuraaggundu78335 жыл бұрын
Crazy why did they lay beagles on the ground
@austinouverson90874 жыл бұрын
anuraag gundu am I the only other one who noticed that😂😂😂
@hindadid37614 жыл бұрын
Exactly!! In a park where dogs 🐕 usually pee and 💩
@soniasia55584 жыл бұрын
anuraag gundu,, Yeah they should have left those bread in the bag!
@badgerpa94 жыл бұрын
Beagles are dogs and they will lay on the ground. If you meant the bagels they did it to spread things out as much as possible to make it look like even more food. This is marketing also. They need people to watch them.
@user-lr3xj5mc2m4 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@francoisb59078 ай бұрын
We need more Marketplace shows like this one in this country! 👍
@Zany347 жыл бұрын
Glad i was raised in an asian family with a rule never waste food or your getting a broom up your butt.
@thegigadykid16 жыл бұрын
kn same in my house
@jewls-ek9kt6 жыл бұрын
What if the person actually enjoys the sensation of a broom up there? :O
@adamas_dragon6 жыл бұрын
Same...
@adamas_dragon6 жыл бұрын
@@jewls-ek9kt Lol
@kentuckygirl82826 жыл бұрын
😨
@cooler45ice97 жыл бұрын
That looks like a extreme cheapskates dream
@vikuparmar63903 жыл бұрын
Think about the farmers, how much effort and tips they give in to grow this things.
@williammartinreyes34397 жыл бұрын
its edible. i can live with that. i can scavenge everyday to eat. gross to some but the fact that its still fresh is not bad. so why spend.
@1USAUSA7 жыл бұрын
+William Martin Reyes Plus, a lot of them are still in their packages unopened.
@sibilaasturias5 жыл бұрын
The nasty part of him eating the blueberry is that he ate it with the same gloves he used to open the container which I bet is dirty af
@SJanez914 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing too
@angelocordova99944 жыл бұрын
As what he said before eating it '' lets all digust some people here'' @3:55 🤣🤣🤣
@yig_5013 жыл бұрын
Gotta build the immune system up somehow lolol
@imjustsayin65623 жыл бұрын
Lol
@rustygoldfanatic88303 жыл бұрын
Stop being foolish ,think hungry homeless care about that stuff.
@jimschaefer78274 жыл бұрын
Part of the problem of food waste is the way some foods are packaged, especially in big box stores. At Sam’s Club, for example, you can’t buy one bunch of celery, they come in bags of three. Same thing with certain lettuce. We buy them thinking we’re saving money, but we’d spend less and waste less if we’d go to Albertsons where we can buy one of each. But, like most of us, I don’t think about it enough.
@billmartins5545 Жыл бұрын
I do agree that it seems like you're over paying when you buy a smaller pack of something but if you would throw away a lot of the larger pack, it's actually cheaper for yourself and better for the planet to buy the smaller pack. Or you could get the larger pack and give half of the contents to a neighbour?
@kepstein88885 жыл бұрын
Thanks to CBC for doing this segment. It's important to expose companies that do business like this.
@samylynch51857 жыл бұрын
they could have donate those food to people in need
@1USAUSA7 жыл бұрын
samy that is a wishful thinking on your part, but that is not what these people are after but MONEY....They could careless if millions of people are starving in Africa or not....
@zhozan137 жыл бұрын
Even their own workers need help with food because that don't pay a fair wage.
@badandy1026 жыл бұрын
But Walmart could use it as a right off when it comes for taxes. Do good and still not lose the money on product they just threw away. Maybe not lose all of it, but at least recoup some of their costs
@samdasilva19146 жыл бұрын
ermmm in *e US too, t*at is w*ere it s*ould be distributed. Africa *as plenty of ric* countries, t&ey need to start lookin* after t(eirown and sortin& t*emselves out
@davidmcnelley86724 жыл бұрын
I’d say a big cause of waste is the sizes of products, like for me a as single person it’s hard to find anything that isn’t “family” sized. So I’m almost forced to buy a bigger amount of something then I need or will use even knowing that some of it’s gonna be wasted.
@billmartins5545 Жыл бұрын
Learn to be creative. Learn to store your produce to last as long as possible. You can buy eggs per 6 so you should be able to eat that in a week. Most fruits vegetables keep for days if not a couple of weeks. You can't tell me that you can't manage to use up a head of broccoli or cauliflower in 5-10 days. You can buy bread per half loaf. So that's doable to eat in 4-5 days. Get a freezer. I lived alone for over a decade and although every now and again something went bad, it wasn't much.
@davidmcnelley8672 Жыл бұрын
@@billmartins5545 I mean I can make it work with things like that but that also forces you to then have to eat the same item several times a week. A big issue is a lot of smaller sized items cost more money or it’s cheaper to buy in bulk and so almost incentivizes you to buy more then you need.
@mohamedmahmoud40457 жыл бұрын
They could just put the food infront of the store for free
@maggie12md187 жыл бұрын
Project Legend but then the people who CAN afford food wouldn't buy the food because it would be FREE if they waited long enough, and then Walmart would go outta business, but I do think they should seek volunteers who want to help bring the wasted food to shelters for the homeless, and for those on the streets.
@1USAUSA7 жыл бұрын
+MD They will STILL loose money by GIVING these FOOD away whether it was left in front of the store or people taking them to homeless or shelter. It is a TOTAL LOSE for Walmart. They will never be able to get their money back. The ONLY REASON big corporation like Walmart throws GOOD food away like this in a dumpster is BECAUSE of GOBERMINT. Companies can write it off as lose and get some or most of this money back from the gobermint. So, naturally they don't mind or feel guilty throwing it away. lol...
@christopherfortineux69376 жыл бұрын
No, because that would make them liable for food born illness. Why is this concept so hard to understand.
@burgundyyears6 жыл бұрын
Then they will get sued for millions when someone bites into a bad blueberry and gets sick and the headline will read "WALMART GIVES POOR CHILDREN SPOILT DANGEROUS FOOD". It's a no win situation for them.
@bel-td5uk6 жыл бұрын
All that food could be given to the homeless.
@manicjupiterflute5 жыл бұрын
There's always a lot of homeless beggars asking for spare change near Walmart also.
@Koslita775 жыл бұрын
I offered homeless people some food that I just bought, and they refuse, they yelled at me saying; money!!!! The only ones that usually receive food are the mental illness, because they do not ask for money, they look lost.
@moodini995 жыл бұрын
Homeless don't want food, they want drugs. Food is available at food shelters in the Western world. Westerners don;t starve. Just some drugs to quell the boredom. And why not
@flammaferus29984 жыл бұрын
@@manicjupiterflute Homeless beggars aren't starving they're only after money. Never give them money! Parasites!
@sortathesame87014 жыл бұрын
@@flammaferus2998 Absolutely do not give them money!!!! You are only helping enable them with their drug problem. In fact, many beggars are not homeless at all! It has been proven that a good number live in perfectly lovely homes and make a really good living just begging on the streets! Those who are truly homeless (it isn't usually hard to tell) are going to be far better off if they reach the end of their rope and turn to state programs where they can get real help returning to their life.
@ebriggs3498 Жыл бұрын
The food waste in the USA is horrific! Back in the 1970s, when I was in high school, I had a history teacher who worked during the summers at a grocery store and he told us about how much food waste there was. He used to gather it all up and take it to the food bank, with the Store’s permission. This is still done in a lot of cities, but it changed in that city where I was living as a high schooler when the laws changed which would allow homeless people to sue the grocery store if they were given an expired product and got sick! There should be a law that all food should be donated to homeless shelters and food banks and that you cannot sue anyone from any foods that you get at those locations!
@boxfox2945 Жыл бұрын
They needs to be some restrictions on that. I just saw salvation army serving green meat. You don't have to be a expert to know meat' should not' be green. Even liver' shouldn't be that green.
@thedragong7 жыл бұрын
united states of America is one of the worse place that does this. especially with lunch food from highschools. I have seen students get lunch just to throw them away.
@amykc7 жыл бұрын
kids take food for granted
@Yogirliej4dee6 жыл бұрын
thedragong I live in Vancouver and at my daughter’s school district all kids bring lunch and Snack from home, guess what? Kids don’t eat every thing that there parents give them, and most parents make the kids eat some of their leftover lunch after school.
@meganh1096 жыл бұрын
I remember when I was in elementary school and everyone was throwing away their oranges and bananas and I collected over 30 oranges in a day just from asking. It’s truly sad.
@elizabethbush52936 жыл бұрын
Have you ever had an American school lunch? Some of them are so over processed and disgusting that I wouldn't feed them to my dog.
@thiliniwish196 жыл бұрын
yes me too, shocked when i came to US for the first time. we never had food to through away.
@clink768 жыл бұрын
This is just scratching the surface. Do you have any idea how much non-food product is wasted for frivolous reasons?? When people return things it's instant trash. At the end of the season left over lawnmowers are thrown out regardless of cost. They fill the gas tanks with paint or other chemicals so they can't be used and are sent off to landfill. Costco is just as bad or worse. What do you honestly think happens with the huge amount of Costco returns? Would you buy a used TV, Computer, Mattress set? They spend hours behind the store slashing and smashing new or near new merchandise. It's kind of unfair for you to call out Walmart when It seems large US retail chains in Canada are really common for this. As a Canadian it sickens me what they send to our landfill (most of which should be recycled). Ikea is also guilty. First they encourage customers to try their mattresses for 90 days and then when they are returned they send huge boxcars full to landfill. Can you say "green washing"? At the end of the day it's Consumer demand which causes this. Customers are very very picky and demand an unconditional liberal return policy. How is this not bad for the economy or environment?
@Sam-ln1ji8 жыл бұрын
well what are the key aspects of the investigative report including its newsworthiness and public interest?
@GOGOSLIFE8 жыл бұрын
As a consumer, I hear you.
@killax78 жыл бұрын
Carol Bei I can't comment on your IKEA example. Grocery stores however, should have free range to throw out what they wish. If produce is mishandled/cross-contaminated or meat is left at room temp too long it needs to be thrown out. Safety and product quality should be a larger concern than waste.
@rosehipsama36407 жыл бұрын
Carol Bei Idk if we ever do this in America. I feel bad for you my fellow Canadians
@livingfrankly36527 жыл бұрын
There are discount stores that's purchase the Costco and other store returned products and then resell them at a discounted price. in British Columbia, it's been called over the years, mtf, then mtf price matters and now currently it's called big box outlet store. They have multiple locations. I can't believe the claims you make about trashing returned products, it's extremely ignorant of you. Do your research before you spout complete nonsense.
@badgerpa94 жыл бұрын
I worked for a company that gave away computers to a school and library and gave them away as is telling them they are older computers the company did not use anymore. The library and school sued the company when the computers did not work like new and had issues. After that the policy was nothing ever could be donated or given to any place for any reason ever. They ended up buying new computers for them and replacing the computers donated. The school and library continued to have many problems with the new computers they got.
@wanyinavybes4216 жыл бұрын
At this rate dumpster diving sounds like a super deal🤣
@suides48105 жыл бұрын
Wanyina Vybes it is they just might throw one in jail..
@maeveweaver16094 жыл бұрын
Try it once absolutely worth it
@paulinedivingdeepincincinn19624 жыл бұрын
I DUMPSTER DIVE i love it i have a channel on KZbin
@James-qd4ox8 жыл бұрын
I might as well do my grocery shopping in the bins now
@douglasmccarty11967 жыл бұрын
There are lots of KZbin channels on dumpster diving
@sassypolkadots64467 жыл бұрын
JameZ TV Lol 😂
@JensLife6 жыл бұрын
That's what I did.
@JensLife6 жыл бұрын
Douglas McCarty Yep, like mine.
@eckankar77563 жыл бұрын
I do home canning and have a food dehydrator for vegetables. After eating a steak the bones will freeze till I get enough to boil for broth to pressure can for soups later on. For a quick lunch I pop open a jar of my home canned steak bone broth add some of the dehydrated vegetables and have a delicious meal. Bread going old and drying out I pulverize into crumbs and store away to thicken soups or for crispy fried chicken. Bread crumbs mixed with egg, milk and baking powder make great pancakes.
@soplv6055 жыл бұрын
Kinda mad they actually threw out perfectly good food on purpose to make a point with the composting bin in store.
@maryphillips80694 жыл бұрын
And the fact that, like, that dude woulda eaten those tomatoes!
@ninaeve95803 жыл бұрын
Definitely!! Was quite hypocritical I think. He could have just held up what would have ween wasted 🥲
@imanib.18333 жыл бұрын
They could have just used props🥲
@reece_harding Жыл бұрын
The point they made with one bin will be amplified across thousands of viewers. The pain you felt should be impetuous for change in your own life
@suivatra1235 жыл бұрын
I worked at Giant food store a few years back, and watched just how much food was wasted. When I asked if it can be donated or taken by employees they said no because of health reasons, but they were still good. It's about money and permits/licensing. They'd rather lose money in a dumpster than to lose money feeding people.
@wufongtanwufong55794 жыл бұрын
Don't blame walmart. Blame the lawyers circling like sharks, waiting to sue the moment someone gets sick.
@graceyoung59294 жыл бұрын
there are laws in place to protect the store from a suit if they actually did donate to pantries. nobody has ever filed a suit yet because everyone just assumes they can
@sagecassidy39544 жыл бұрын
Dude walmart would win on one simple fact. They got that from the trash and it's most likely on camera if they get sick it's there own damn fault should've thought not to eat trash and when I was a kid my mom said what goes in the trash stays good thing I remember a simple fact in life
@ghostwriter46205 жыл бұрын
excuse me everyone, I gotta go shopping at Walmart dumpster.
@LoyalT1005 жыл бұрын
Don't bother thanks to this video walmart reacted by putting a fence around those bins they went through. So those who knew how to get this food can't, Thanks CBC and Walmart.
@ΤοΡόδινονΡόδον5 жыл бұрын
LoyalT100 MESSED UP
@hannahf.5725 жыл бұрын
LoyalT100 you have to remember that there are many different Walmart’s
@hannahf.5725 жыл бұрын
Is it legal to just go digging in the dump of grocery stores? Will you get arrested in the usa?
@ms.keyshawineglass75905 жыл бұрын
@@hannahf.572 I know for sure Walmart will call the police on you if you're caught diving. I watched an older gentleman diving and Walmart threatened to have him arrested if he didn't put the food products back. My mom and I were so shocked at the exhorbitant amounts of food that weren't past the expiration dates and was going to go to waste when there are so many hungry people in this country.
@kathytickell38647 жыл бұрын
I walked through our Walmart in Ontario getting groceries. I got to the cash and decided that I didnt want to buy my ice cream because my husband had picked one up in his cart. The cashier told me that they will just be throwing it away. I asked why? She said because it was out of the freezer. I said for 10 mins? It isnt like I was bringing it back to the service desk after buying it. Such a WASTE.
@tsakri16257 жыл бұрын
Kathy Tickell The nearest grocery store to my house is more than 10 mins away. By that logic, I shouldn't buy any product that needs refrigerating or freezing.
@kathytickell38647 жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@lilystic96236 жыл бұрын
@10101010 it was out for ten minutes. Stores are pretty cold, so it wouldn't have melted, maybe just softened a bit. You can just put it back in the freezer
@shivashakti42614 жыл бұрын
CBC: Criticize unnecessary food waste. Also CBC: Throws perfectly good food just to make a point.
@ThahnG4134 жыл бұрын
It's ironic to me that they criticize stores for throwing food away yet it's the same bruised food the consumer won't buy
@mtcheung26374 жыл бұрын
I was disgusted by that. Pointless sensationalism.
@priscillajimenez274 жыл бұрын
@@mtcheung2637 throwing away a bin of food to make awareness to help prevent tons of food being thrown out
@JaguarFiend4 жыл бұрын
A tiny drop in the bucket. The point is that much would have been wasted on average anyway.
@johnsaunders88824 жыл бұрын
They threw it in compost, not the garbage. The food will become soil for more food.
@hell0h0bbit8 жыл бұрын
is it illegal if i go and dig some food in their bins??
@garyorman34578 жыл бұрын
i was thinking of doing the same thing and if it isnt illegal in thailand then the saying one mans trash is another mans treasure is true
@garyorman34578 жыл бұрын
ill still eat it
@hell0h0bbit8 жыл бұрын
there's absolutely nothing wrong with a bruised apple. i believe most people will agree with me
@garyorman34578 жыл бұрын
hell0h0bbit for sure me: your still a perfect apple apple: whenever i didnt let my dad have his way with me he would always beat me *sob* me: nice chat *walks away*
@Kisai_Yuki8 жыл бұрын
Technically, it's illegal because it's still their property until it leaves their building's property. Dumpster divers have been killed when they've crawled into compactors or the trucks have collected the garbage while people are in it. For liability reasons they have to prevent dumpster diving. The reality is that some supervisor/managers in inner-city stores will intentionally leave these things unguarded full well knowing it will be dumpster dived, and against policies, as long as people don't make a mess. If a place is habitually raided by homeless people, and a mess left, that's when the city will chew out the store and and will be required to prevent access to the dumpsters. Yet no change in what is disposed of. That's why the manager of that Walmart was so skittish about coming on camera, because he's already in deep trouble because of Marketplace. He likely didn't enforce a policy about securing garbage to save money, as they throw out so much garbage daily.
@alleygh0st7 жыл бұрын
What is amazing is the amount of excuses some people will make to explain this away.
@TheFunnyGuy90006 жыл бұрын
alleygh0st Why is Marketplace complaining about Walmart anyways
@BRITTWOODNESHIE3 жыл бұрын
I worked at Qdoba and if you get order wrong or the customer doesnt want it anymore, the food would be thrown out. You can save that for later and give it to people outside on the mall who are homeless. But once again, they want to waste it.
@notmyname25073 жыл бұрын
they crate a scarcity and exploit it for profit its their business model
@antoniatashquinth21707 жыл бұрын
So disgusting the waste, so many people going hungry in the USA. Children going to bed hungry even with parents working and barely making ends meet. So unnecessary, they could donate the food to food pantry's or food banks.