So, my step daughter has for the last few years been doing the penny shopping at Dollar General. Well lately she has been dumpster diving there after seeing them putting buggies full of perfectly good stuff in the dumpster. Lately there’s been unopened boxes full of stuff like maybe they just took it out of the storeroom and dumped instead of putting it on the shelf. Yesterday she got an unopened box full of pizzas and some other stuff. I asked about the expiration date thinking well it was about to go out of date. NO, didn’t expire till 2025. Same with the lasagna, hot pockets, etc….and yes, she has good timing as she gets it while still frozen. Lots of snack cakes, chips etc that are also not about to expire. And it’s not just one store, she goes to several different ones in different towns. I just thought this to be very strange as it is a lot of money going in the dumpster.
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I seem to remember a show that discussed DG's supply chain system and it was a cluster. Their stores are always overloaded to the point of being unshoppable. Maybe they ran out of merchandising space for frozen food and dumped it instead. It makes me wonder if business is really as difficult as advertised. I've worked for some pretty successful small businesses and without fail they are run so illogically and wastefully yet they still make money. It's just so hard to get that startup cash
Long ago, I read a book by Don Aslett. He ran a service for large companies putting up and taking down Christmas Trees and decorations. He said when they started out, they would store everything for the next year. Until he figured out that it was cheaper for him to not pay the labor hours taking it all down and packing it up, the transport, the storage locker fees. They just started tossing it all and re-buying the next year with a tidy profit.
I know this isn't the same, but it stuck with me. I was dumbfounded by this way of thought at that time in my life.