I’m sure most of what they do is great. My only experience with them is a really unfortunate beef they took up with a bakery I worked at. Before they started their theatrics, we had a row of clean bins behind the bakery where expired bread that had been returned from grocery stores was placed before being sold to a pig farm. People could quietly go get what ever they wanted, whenever they wanted. We put them there to be discreet.
So the FNB folks show up and start, like an anti (our bakery) campaign, putting up signs all over the place about how we throw away edible food because the government pays us to(?) and everyone should storm the dumpster area and liberate the bread.
This caused a much less discreet situation (people showing up and screaming at us and the neighbors while filling vehicles with bread that they would then “distribute” to homeless camps and full loaves of packaged bread became a ubiquitous litter item in the area) which of course attracted the attention of the health department who made us move the bins to a secure area and install individual locks on each one (a huge pain in the ass for the workers).
The reason for all the extra bread is another story, to do with grocery stores insisting on planned over buying to maintain “bountiful shelves” and then forcing companies to buy back what didn’t sell in the allotted time. Trader Joes having empty bread shelves at the end of the day is a really good thing.
I’m sure most of what they do is great. My only experience with them is a really unfortunate beef they took up with a bakery I worked at. Before they started their theatrics, we had a row of clean bins behind the bakery where expired bread that had been returned from grocery stores was placed before being sold to a pig farm. People could quietly go get what ever they wanted, whenever they wanted. We put them there to be discreet.
So the FNB folks show up and start, like an anti (our bakery) campaign, putting up signs all over the place about how we throw away edible food because the government pays us to(?) and everyone should storm the dumpster area and liberate the bread.
This caused a much less discreet situation (people showing up and screaming at us and the neighbors while filling vehicles with bread that they would then “distribute” to homeless camps and full loaves of packaged bread became a ubiquitous litter item in the area) which of course attracted the attention of the health department who made us move the bins to a secure area and install individual locks on each one (a huge pain in the ass for the workers).
The reason for all the extra bread is another story, to do with grocery stores insisting on planned over buying to maintain “bountiful shelves” and then forcing companies to buy back what didn’t sell in the allotted time. Trader Joes having empty bread shelves at the end of the day is a really good thing.