Wanna know something even more disturbing? Sams and WalMart MUST trash good food on the expiration date. Such as bakery items- on the expire date MOUNTAINS of cakes, pies, breads etc( all perfectly edible) go into the dumpster. Not on sale for half price- in the garbage! Not even cut up for the employees or given to homeless shelters- in the garbage!
More shocking- if food leaves the store even for a moment and is returned, in the trash it goes. Saw it with my own eyes- woman bought two hams, walked out the door, changed her mind and returned one Employee asked if she should return it to the cold case and she was told to trash it. Saw it happen with a cake too- it had been mis-decorated for a birthday order. Customer refused it because of the kids name being misspelled. In the garbage.
This happens at places like Winn Dixie too. They used to put near-expired bakery items in a basket for half price. Now they pile them on a handtruck and put them in the dumpster. Appalling waste when they could get SOMETHING for them and people could save a bit of money for good food.
I love Wal Mart, and Sams, but this is wrong. I could almost see the liablity factor re food,( even then you could have a sign-off on liability arrangement with charities or something) but CLOTHES and shoes? Sell them for a dollar at a sidewalk sale or something! I saw a dumpster full of shoes behind a mall once, all sprayed with orange and red paint. Criminal!
When I used to work at Target they would have big cardboard boxes on pallets that would be filled with discontinued merchandise and sold to Goodwill by the pound.
I am sure most retailers would be willing to sell their discontinued stuff at a discount if there is a reliable market for it. But I can see them not wanting to spend the manpower and expense doing a sidewalk sale if the profit isn’t there.
Lawyers....