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Agreed, but unfortunately legal liabilities create huge wastes like this. It's why grocery stores go through extensive efforts to ensure you can't recover their
by d6e 6y ago
Agreed, but unfortunately legal liabilities create huge wastes like this. It's why grocery stores go through extensive efforts to ensure you can't recover their thrown out good that has reached it's sell by date but is still good.
- OldHand2018 6y agoIn the US, the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act of 1996 eliminates the liability of grocery stores from donating or allowing people to "glean" food that it no longer can sell. If you know of a store that is destroying this type of food, please let them know that they can donate it without worrying about getting sued.
- jgwil2 6y agoYep, generally if you find food on the shelf that has past its sell-by date, they will give it to you for free.
- Mirioron 6y agoIt does underline the point though. A law had to be made almost 25 years ago to prevent this with food and people are still worried. Doesn't paint a rosy picture for everything else.
- Dylan16807 6y agoIt depends on how things got there. If the law was made because of unjustified paranoia, to settle it, then you can't use the existence of that law as justification for the paranoia.
- jrace 6y agoWhat legal liability would prevent them from selling, or even just giving them away "as is - where is"?
- gambiting 6y agoI don't believe that's the case for one second. People sell second hand cars/motorcycles/bicycles/rollerblades all the time without worrying about liability afterwards, otherwise you'd be saying that US has no market for second hand equipment.
- bogomipz 6y agoWhat legal liability is this exactly? People buy used bikes, motorcycles and cars all the time. Both from companies as well as other individuals.