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I am smart enough to know that the food with expiration dates gets taken off the shelf and then some human being has to move it somewhere else if I don't take i

• akira2501 2y ago
  > I like being efficient Sure, but selecting the oldest groceries on the shelf is not a factor, as it's not your efficiency you're improving. > filling in gaps where it doesn't matter. If the store is arranging its stock orders incorrectly then they should fix that. They have a much better opportunity to have impacts here than your gap filling ever will. Why don't they actually do this then? Because the 2% loss on waste can't be made up by the 5% additional cost of labor to "right size" the order perfectly every time. Finally it's only waste because we don't manage these outputs correctly and have a single dumpster where all "garbage" goes. Food recycling and city compost programs could close the rest of the loop far more efficiently than any of this. > Freshness differentials on shelves isn't worth it for me or the business. No, it's just the entire rest of the supply chain.