AIBU by thinking this is so wrong. Food shops destroying food rather than letting homeless have it.

[taylor74]

Just seen my MIL who works for a well know cake shop.
This is her 1st week there. Anyway at the end of the day she was told by her supervisor to throw all food out like cream cakes and sandwiches and to pour washing up liquid over them. Why? She said, supervisor said cause I don't want tramps eating it. She was horrified and so am couldn't they have taken it to a homeless shelter?

when i was homeless (with 4 dc) i was richest i have ever been!

Robf I dont think you have a clue, tell you what I'll take you round Plymouth one of the nights and you can see the homeless there and ask them if they are hungry! What a stupid comment

Aww, and for a while there everyone was doing so well to ignore the obvious provocation by RobF

So tiffany your saying you was rich but no roof over your head??
I'd rather have a roof for my kids and be poor

The local grocery store near me has even stopped selling 'best before' items at reduced prices now :-( They have a gorgeous range of luxury cakes, totally out of this world items, but at $6 a slice I would only ever buy any when it had been knocked down to $2. They said they were better off getting the tax right off for it than selling it cheaper, and donate it to the food hand out place, which is good, I guess, but a shame I cannot buy cheaper meat and cake etc and a shame their only reason for donating the goods was that they made more from getting the tax break.

"RobF are you serious re. noone starving to death in this country?"
Yes.

When I managed a supermarket we would put anything fit for human consumption in a clear plastic bag and hang it from the fence for homeless people to take.

We always removed items from sale 24 hrs before it reached it's sell by date.

I don't thiink there wouldv'e been time to distribute it any other way before it was not fit for human consumption.

This is so morally unsound. My sister got sacked from a cafe in Covent Garden for throwing out leftover food in take away boxes.

Taylor....'homeless' doesnt mean no roof over your head?? and its not about what you'd 'rather' have.

Well tiffany you was cleary so rich when you was "homeless" why don't you tell these poor folks how you did it then

do you think homeless is living on the streets?

you are classified as homeless when in hostels/refuges/b and b

why so defensive? what poor folk do i need to tell?? and tell what?

i was in a tesco garage a few months ago and they had obviously over ordered on their freshly made cakes/donuts/rolls etc as it was 8.30pm and the whole shelf was full and i mean FULL like it normally is first thing in the morning.

anyway, the manager got out orange bin bags and started throwing it all in the bags. i said 'are you throwing it all away?' and he said 'yes'. i said 'if your throwing it away, il have some of it' and his reply was - 'you can buy it at the selling price, otherwise it has to be thrown away'

i told him how wasteful then walked off with the intention of writing to head office. i never did though - i forgot. i should have taken photos on my phone

Our local M&S store passes unsellable food onto a local homeless group in the city afaik. They also provide food at Christmas. I think it is the M&S anyway, pretty sure.

You've got to try pretty fuking hard to remain homeless in this country, with the amount of charity thrown at the problem.

They dont want food, they want drugs and booze. Theres not much of that being thrown away by Tescos I suspect.

Now tiffany I was going on your comment that when "you" was homeless you was rich. That's what I was going on.
Don't make a comment like that if you can't back it up I was merely asking how can you claim you was so rich if you was homeless??? Doesn't matter if you lived in a hostel or not I was merely asking how can someone who classed as homeless me rich?
I'm a homeowner, we both work and we are skint so millions of us must be doing something wrong then as millions are on the breadline tiffany

I just saw on tv (so it must be true) that the supermarkets do their BOGOFs in order to transfer their waste to the consumer. That way we chuck it all out and not them.

Its a theory anyway.

And tiffany you need to tell folk how they can be rich whilst homeless as I'm guessing people classed as homeless in hostels and b&b are struggling
So don't say something like that as it's stupid

We live in a society where people are always looking for a reason to sue.

Potentially, if someone were to eat the food from supermarkets, whether donated or not, and were to be ill because of it, they could then sue.

The supermarkets are just covering their arses.

taylor....i didnt say i was rich,just richest i had ever been!! and who mentioned money you can be 'rich' without money

How will providing free food help to end rough sleeping? To be honest part of encouraging entrenched rough sleepers into service to get them helped is destroyed by people giving them food and money.

For example I work with homeless people and some it is very hard to get them to stay in a hostel over night, getting them into a soup kitchen where they can have access to help is a major mile stone. To be honest people who give homeless people money and food really undo a lot of the hard work done by charities iyswim.

It may be true that there are few rough sleepers on the streets (although this will change as more exservice personnel are dumped back on civvie street and the cuts start to bite) BUT there are many people who live in temporary and inadequate housing.

There are also many who dont have recourse to public funds so have no money for food and have to rely on charity.

Homeless is not just living in a cardboard box.

And why so sneery anyway? Hardcore rough sleepers may not be very 'nice' but they are human beings, deserving of compassion.
It can happen to anyone.

Many are ex service
Many are care leavers.
Most are substance abusers of some sort.

You dont have to like someone to help them.

taylor....are you trying to say what i can and cant say then??

exactly mrsdevere......lots of snobbery and asumptions are made about homelessness!! you are only a few mortgage payments away from it at any one time....