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 I asked about the expiration date thinking well it was about to go out of date.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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Are you sure that food isn’t tainted in some way? I wonder if Dollar General was ordered to get rid of food from certain processing plants. Or particular batches? Maybe OP should see if the manufacturers of the food that was thrown out are connected with all the food processing plant disasters. Please tell your daughter to research before she eats it.
I've had to destroy tainted products before that someone else might think was perfectly good. Fortunately, my boss was a stickler for doing things the right way and we made sure it wasn't usable, but other people might just throw it in the dumpster. Or they received too much of a product and have to throw stuff out since there isn't anywhere to store it. The warehouse shipping you frozen stuff doesn't care that your freezers are already full.