Post Azq9I9ddz0X7qb9IWm by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Azq9I9ddz0X7qb9IWm by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
       2025-11-02T01:04:09Z
       
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       Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted."Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then?"Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.This isn't new. Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939:
       
 (DIR) Post #Azq9IBJrjVtv3puWye by peterwilsoncc@aus.social
       2025-11-02T03:12:24Z
       
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       @AlSweigart coincidently, I was thinking about this apparently satirical news article as I passed the local supermarket’s bins a couple of days ago. https://www.betootaadvocate.com/cost-of-living-crisis-forces-supermarkets-to-padlock-dumpster-to-maintain-food-waste-culture/
       
 (DIR) Post #Azq9ICwXhCQu650vtw by Nimbius666@comp.lain.la
       2025-11-02T16:09:55.891021Z
       
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       @peterwilsoncc @AlSweigart our stores in the states usually drench the dumpsters in bleach as well.