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Zeus posted...

...what?

People that get uppity about top-down mask mandates want businesses to be able to choose for themselves whether or not to enforce them. Anyone that's paid the remotest bit of attention to the world around them, however, knows that trusting businesses to act in the interest of public health on a purely voluntary basis is incredibly foolish, especially when doing so confers a competitive disadvantage.

Zeus posted...

Wha?

A substantial amount of the food that ends up in supermarket dumpsters is still safe and edible, given that there's a considerable amount of middle ground between "unsellable" (especially at the full asking price) and "unsafe/inedible." Stale bread, expired products that are still sealed or otherwise are usually good well past their date, produce with some ugly bruises that are easy to cut off... Rather than permitting people to take advantage of that, though, those supermarkets would rather secure their garbage such that everyone that wants food has no choice but to buy it from them (or one of their nearby competitors).

Basically, it's in supermarkets' best financial interests to ensure that nobody gets free food. Lock up the dumpsters, and that means people that can't afford to buy it still end up driving sales by relying on the charity of people who can. Leaving dumpsters unsecured, however, can lead to actual lost sales, such that they'd rather spend money to ensure that food rots than let it go to hungry people.

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