Any grocery store is DELIGHTED if they have a 1.5 % profit at he end of the fiscal year.
IF grocery stores are giving way food to those who cannot keep their legs together & cannot feed what they already have sitting at the table, then, such food given away raises the cost of the food YOU & I buy at any given grocery store.
IT DOES COME OUT OF YOUR POCKET.
I worked at a state run mental health center. A local grocery chain donated their baked goods that were at the sell by date to the center for our clients.
The breads and pastries would have been tossed into the dumpster by the grocery if not donated.
BINGO.
I buy for 2 seniors, most meals I can get 2-3 meals out of. Does the idiot know how to Cook? Budget, use coupons, to bring her bill down?
I had a social worker tell me only illegals were getting food stamps, while white, black elderly might at best see $20 a month in Food Stamps, not worth the gas to go get them. At $1,200 per month they actually Make to much. A now deceased friend on DSSI got $10 a month in food stamps, for him to get his wheelchair in the truck and go after it, it would have cost more in gas.