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RE: Growing Onions - Second Take

I used to own a grocery store and it is amazing how much food has to be pulled. People just won't buy something which doesn't look perfect in their eyes. I used to have a lady come every day and take it to a soup kitchen. Technically, that was probably not even legal - I know restaurants have to jump through hoops to give their leftovers to homeless, for example.
I do understand that dumpsters get locked. We had people come by at night and make huge messes for us to clean up in the morning.....

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That's so fascinating to hear it from the grocery-store-owner's perspective! I had no idea that people would leave messes like that...how rude.

Yes, it was rude and also got us into trouble. For a while, we had a medfly quarantine and any fruit or produce had to be double bagged in plastic trash bags. If any was showing - fine. Well, we did that. Then somebody came at night to dig for rabbit food or something (if they would have let me know, I would have saved it for them to pick up) and left a mess.
The inspectore came first thing in the morning. Boom. Fine.....