This is one of my pet peeves. If there is a widespread power outage in PA, as I understand it, grocery stores without generators are obliged to dump all perishable food, rather than hand what is still safe to eat (still mostly frozen) it over to emergency services to feed folks who have gone to emergency shelters because they have no power!
This is true even in the winter when it can be below freezing outdoors. Insane.
I remember when I was a young one about 9 or 10, the electric went out at a grocery store in a small town in North Western, PA for a day or so (cant remember the circumstances) but my dad and the neighbor went there and bought home truck loads of ice cream, fudge sickles and gallon containers of all kinds.
What we couldn’t save we fed to the pigs we were raising and all I can say is the 4 of us siblings had one of the best summers I can remember. We didn’t just go and get (a) fudge sickle we got a box full!