I TRIED to get her to save the bacon...

[Jester]

I'll bite. What are rules 35 & 36?

[cinema guy]

Rule 35 is something like: if rule 34 doesn't apply now, it will soon.

Dunno about 36, but I guess it is similar.

[Broomjockey]

#35: If there is no porn of it yet, there will be.
#36: If you think what you just saw is as f*^&ed up as it can get, the internet always has worse.

[Samaliel]

In my rememberance, rule #36 was : "No matter what it is, it is somebody's fetish. No exceptions."

But your version works too - 'twas #37 or #38, as far as I remember, though. Can't check right now.

[Broomjockey]

Depends on which version you're going off of. There's the original 50, then there's a revised list that goes up to 100 or so. I'm just using the original list.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

It's not to protect the customer from bad food, it's to protect the store from a lawsuit.

Because there's no way to tell how long food is out of the fridge or freezer, if they just have a blanket policy that forbids employees to re-stock perishables, then there is a much less liability for the store. They have a policy in place that forbids ANY company-mandated restocking of food.

They have no control over what a customer does, their culpability is not the same there as it would be if they actually told their own employees to do it. Customers return food to the fridge or freezer all the time. But the minute an employee does it under corporate policy, there's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

[Becks]

I haven't had bacon since I was in NJ.

[vloglady]

Is this toss-out policy all over? I've never heard of it before.

[karma_gypsy]

Is this toss-out policy all over? I've never heard of it before.

I haven't either ... I can't imagine what the dumpster could possibly look like at our local Winco (which runs on a skeleton crew ... - so, no employees available during busy-times to reshop items) ...



Too bad there couldn't be a special freezer set aside and this possibly "bad" food could just be donated ...

[Rapscallion]

Too bad there couldn't be a special freezer set aside and this possibly "bad" food could just be donated ...

I raised a similar point at our place. Apparently even agencies that help the homeless or destitute are willing to sue to cover costs of food poisoning.

Rapscallion

[Bliss]

Mmmmm..... Maple Bacon cookies.... *ponders*

DO IT EQ DO IT!

Yeah!! and add some almonds to it while you're at it!! it'll round up the flavor!

[Dreamstalker]

Oh, and while we're on the topic of wastefulness. Our store also dumps (throws away) pet food that idiot customers tear whole in. Since we can't resell them, they're dumped in the trash and thrown away. We have a LOT of damaged pet food each and every day. I weep.

I'm sure any number of animal hospitals/shelters would be more than happy to see that donated (assuming the only problem is a hole, but it's probably binned as you can't be sure if it was actually tampered with)...which I'm guessing doesn't happen.

[Danno]

I raised a similar point at our place. Apparently even agencies that help the homeless or destitute are willing to sue to cover costs of food poisoning.

Rapscallion

I dunno about that, but you can bet that anybody who received food from a shelter that made them sick would sue the shelter.

I occasionally help my parents' parish move their Food Bank deliveries into their "warehouse" (read: basement) and there's an often awkward situation. Local businesses (especially fast food places) will donate food that's clearly marked just past or at the expiration date. The parish doesn't want to pass up any donation, because if you offend a company they may not make future donations, so they'll take anything. But then they can't give out expired food to people's kids so... it gets thrown out. Again, most of the time the food is probably still okay, but they'd be held liable if it wasn't.

[KabeRinnaul]

Our store has the baggers/clerks run anything cold or frozen back to the appropriate department when it's left on the front. Frozen is reshelved immediately if it hasn't gotten warmed up, but fresh meats, deli, and dairy are handed off to the employee in those departments to deal with. Still taken back right away, though.

Anything that doesn't need to be kept cold we have some bins for, organized by aisle. We just put the warm stuff in those until evening shift is supposed to come in, then the last two day shift clerks try and run back anything they can from the bins. Anything they don't get the morning people handle.