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10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They used to dump them in unlocked dumpsters but people figured that out and started pilfering the dumpsters. My dad, not poor at all but quite frugal/cheap, somehow heard about this and started taking me as a kid to go dumpster diving with him. It was crazy the amount of food we brought home for those couple years before places started locking the dumpsters. And there were a lot of people driving up and going through them just like us.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There was an entire documentary about people dumpster diving at grocery stores for free food.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That documentary is called: Dive! Living Off America's Waste.

    Here's a trailer for it.

    And here's the full documentary on YouTube.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Crazy to me that it was filmed in 2010. My experience dumpster diving was as a kid in the 80s in Phoenix and as I mentioned, the stores started locking things up and so it stopped. Or so I thought... it seems in many areas it was and maybe still is occurring. Perhaps locking dumpsters is too much of a hassle for some places. Anyway, thanks for sharing!

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