What exactly were they standing up for? It's not their property and it's not for them to make up their own policy. If they really didn't want whatever it was thrown away(Funny how The Press never asked them that) then they could have purchased the merchandise with their own money and then donated whatever it was. To me all they did was made themselves more unhirable for future employment.
My wife was a Dollar Gen, asst manager and she was accused of stealing for bringing home stuff that they were throwing in the dumpster. She quit on the spot.😊
@@gregoryhodge9452 My niece used to set the throw away stuff on the back dock. There was a homeless camp nearby. If anything was left in the morning, she'd put it in the dumpster, but she said that seldom happened.
The issue is if the item isn't on the list and it is donated, the recipient can sue if they " feel " harmed by the item ( like day old food ) . There is just too much liability there and you would do the same.
@bobroberts.....that's what I explained to my hubby. Couple years ago on Undercover Boss for 7-11 he wondered why they didn't donate the food for the day. Turns out they did for a long time but more recently someone got sick off a sandwich and sued therefore they stopped.
My son, 36, is fortunate enough to work for a hardware store that does allow him to bring it home. They also give him broken things, that he repairs and usually donates it himself to someone in need.
now you're going to be on tiktok every time you take out the trash. I've been filmed taking out trash by kids that think they're going to jump in and grab treasure. it's one of the reasons employees are okay with destroying the merch per policy.
The same feeling was had when I worked for a Sam's Club. Every week, we'd count up how many entire cases of member's mark water we'd throw away just because they were missing one or two bottles. Thousands upon thousands of bottles of unopened water, thrown in the compactor, and we all, employees and members both, were forbidden from keeping it or giving it to folks that needed it because it was counted as a company loss. And that's just water. Food, clothing, hardware, tools, toiletries, hundreds of rolls of tp and paper towels, all tossed because of foolish, FOOLISH "company policy". Complete waste.
I used to work for Anheuser-Busch. They would dump pallets and pallets of beer if the color on the label was just a shade off. Honestly, I always thought nobody would care about that stuff anyways. I used to say that the bottling area was an alcoholic's worst nightmare, to see all that beer get dumped over a coloring problem on the label and you can't drink it.
@@crayonchomper1180 I would think so, but then again, you open a new issue: state control of alcohol sales. You would need a beer and wine license to sell it (different from manufacturing it). The state wants their tax money and license fees. They could give it away as they do beer giveaways for events, but they don't. Now, if it was back when my dad started with the company, they could just put it in commercial refrigerators and people could drink it on their break. Back then (mid 80s), you could consume alcohol so long as you were on your scheduled break. Employees were happy and the local police were happy for all that revenue for DUIs (catch them as they were exiting the parking lot, according to my dad.) MADD and some politicians didn't like that policy, so the brewery had to put an end to it.
@@compugasmYou’re not comprehending the point of the comment you responded to. Yes it was ONE store, but the comment states “imagine if ALL employees across America realized we have this power.” If ALL employees realized this, the whole American economy would change. Is this going to happen? Absolutely not. However employees like the one here in this video show us that working Americans do indeed have more power than they could possibly imagine. Even if it’s just one store.
@@anonymousbosch9265 you should divert some time and spend it on comprehension and communication. the person made a perfectly legit point and you want to disparage their intelligence and courage.
Most companies are claiming to want to go green, yet this place is demanding they throw product in the garbage instead of giving to those in need and who could use it. Shame on the company! Good for the employees for taking a stand.
When I worked for Hot Topic (almost 20 years ago) they threw away clothes, bags, etc. I remembering asking about donating them locally and they said no. If it was found out we would didn't throw them away and donated them then we would be fired.
Giving away things for free just makes people even more lazy and let's be honest this stuff will end up in the hands of lazy people and illegal immigrants
This is nothing new. I worked at Dillards department store, which is a high-end department store, I worked in the bed and bath department. We would get complete bedding collections returned because one piece of the set was a bit damaged. These sets could be anywhere from $200-$800. We would have to cut a big hole in every piece and put them in the dumpster. We were told this was so that no one could return the items for a refund. I was disgusted with this policy, but had to do it. This isn’t just Dillards, or Dollar Stores, this is every retail outlet has a policy like this.
@@donotsupportterroristgroups I agree, the items should be marked in some way to avoid a scam. I saw many perfectly good comforters , blankets, towels, all being just thrown away. The defect would be minor from the manufacturer, and the hole or cutting would be minor, but it would still get just tossed in the garbage.
That's because you don't understand business. Businesses are business to make . If they give the stuff away instead of throwing it out then no one will buy it. People will just wait until they give it away. Everything that they throw away is a loss write off of 100 percent of the product if they donate it they only get to claim 50 percent and if they give it away they don't get to claim nothing ( 0 percent )
Plus people get things for a lesser price or pick through the trash for free stuff and then try to return it to the store for cash. They throw tantrums in the store to embarrass the managers and get their own way. I worked at a higher priced store and they had to destroy items before throwing them away for this very reason. It isn’t always the corporation that’s at fault. Don’t forget the thieves and scammers that take advantage of everything including what corporations try to do for good.
@@ralphsnow2337 The employees are talking about donating goods to charitable organizations, not individual customers. Those companies can afford to claim 50%. And anyway, it's worth the great PR.
It's a matter of food. Saw a undercover boss episode from 7-11 where he wanted to know why they didn't donate the days food. They used to but after decades someone got a bad sandwich and got sick and sued so the gubberment told them to could no longer do it.
I worked at a Dunkin donuts in New York once, where at the end of the day wed give usually 100 or so donuts out to the homeless, as per policy, until a homeless guy sued them over stale donuts, and won. Changed policy immediately, and the homeless man got a good chunk of money and ruined it for everyone else in the process. Now all those donuts go right in the dumpster.
We used to have a mill and bakery store here in town. for years they'd throw out "expired" product into a dumpster out back. It was perfectly fine for the most part, and the dumpster was never used for anything else, so it was clean and practically brand new. We dived that thing for years, getting all kinds of good stuff, until they eventually set up a system to donate all of it to local food distribution networks. That went on like that until the mill was closed and torn down down, and the bakery outlet store followed a few years later.
I used to dumpster dive at grocery stores and the amount of good usable stuff they threw away was mind boggling. I only quit when the town I live in passed an ordinance making it illegal to take anything out of a dumpster, despite a national law protecting stores in case food from a dumpster makes anyone sick. Sad fact is, stores HATE anyone getting anything for free and want it all to be dumped in landfills.
Most stores actually dump chemicals on the food too. I dumped my bosses coffee on his head and walked out of a job once because my boss was bragging about it, hoping he would "teach the bums a lesson" Left him by himself (I was the only guy who hadn't quit yet)
Dollars General has cameras all over, and the supervisor there got a clipboard to count how many are counted as "damaged goods", stolen, opened, missing, ect, ect all so the owner of Dollar General can collect A BIG INSURANCE CHECK. As for the trash in the dumpster, you may very well be right. They hate someone getting free stuff, when legally, and by definition, it's just trash by now!! As soon as it enters, it's trash!! 😳😠
I worked at a chain grocery store for 18 years and we threw away NOTHING that was not out of date or otherwise unsellable. We repacked damaged-package items for return to the distribution center and some further sale or donation.
That is a great reason to always shop Mom&Pop shop locally owned and operated. We can't cut corporate out completely but we can shut them way down. Big Corp don't care about no one only about the money and they don't care how they get it!!! Let's make America Great again and support small locally owned businesses and products that are truly made in America
Most people I know who preach shopping at mom and pop stores can be found loading up their carts at Wal Mart or Costco. The vast majority of people will always shop where they can find the best prices. "Big Corp." and "Green Friendly" are talking points that very few Americans even care about.
Most didn't survive covid. Most of the small businesses are service-centric but the unique and eclectic are not readily replicated, even on the same plot. DG had no problem reopening the store with staff who had a particular rule drilled into them during training. There's a lesson for all to see. Gripe all you like about corporate greed, I'll probably agree with you. But a corporation is a machine by design. A unique cultural model in many cases. DG went the same way the Ben Franklin stores did way back when. Remember when Wal-Mart sold American-made products? How long does a washing machine work? Americans are a nation of walking ATMs.
In the very early 2000's I was an assistant store manager for a pizza hut in NW Ohio. we had the pizza buffet m-f for lunch. At the end of every buffet we would store all of the un-eaten buffet food and take it to the local homeless shelter. We never asked corporate for permission and we never told them what we were doing.
When I was a poor starving college student 40 years ago I used to bring home leftover pizza from Pizza Hut buffet where I worked. I wouldnt have had food if it wasn’t for that pizza. To this day my husband can’t understand why I’m not a big fan of pizza. When that’s all you had to eat for weeks and months on end, it ruins it for you.
I worked at a Pizza Hut for 6 months, in 1999. When I started, all the extra pizzas each week (deliveries that couldn't be made, mess ups that we didn't eat, etc) were put in the walk-in, and at the end of the week, someone from a homeless shelter would come collect them. By the time I quit, the shelter had decided it didn't want to serve pizza anymore, as it was deemed "too unhealthy", so all those perfectly good pies just went in the trash. IDK about you, but if I was homeless and living in a shelter, I would look at a weekly pizza dinner as a real treat. And I wouldn't care that I was unhealthy. I'd just be glad I had food in my belly.
@@kencurtis2403 beats the hell outta me. I just know what I was told. But it does make you wonder. That job wasn't all bad, though. I mean, I met my husband there. So there is that, lol. 😊
My nephew used to work for a coffee chain and he said the amount of food they had leftover every night was baffling. They were not allowed to give any of it to charity. (Despite there being a very reputable local charity about 5 minutes away.) Corporate policy was to throw it all in the garbage. However, they had a branch manager with a heart, and he would pretend not to notice when the staff filled up their backpacks each night with the leftovers.
@@ilyarepin7750 If you were the exec you'd think twice. I'm not a lawyer. Will a waiver be bulletproof? Maybe there's exceptions. You wanna lose your job and your pension if you turn out to be wrong making these decisions? Are you going to hire a law firm to develop this mechanism? I'm not giving them excuses, just telling you their process.
I agree completely that corporations waste shameful amounts of product. However, there is another, very real issue with allowing employees to use their discretion when marking out product...SOME employees then believe they can take anything. I worked for a high end housewares store, and I witnessed employees intentionally damaging a product so it would be marked out and they took a home as it was slated for the trash. Not every employee has the best intentions.
No its a tax write off both ways but they are avoiding a law suit if they throw it in the trash. If it is food items and someone gets sick they can sue them. This happens all over the US.
Anyone that works a DG should be well aware of the fact that DG don't take care of their employees at all! DG is the epitome of "Over worked, under paid, not appreciated". The reason thy pop up everywhere is NOT because they are such a good company to work for because they aren't! But because the local "Politicians" get paid well to let them in the community!
"Local politicians" don't get kickbacks to let DG in. That's hilarious. Like any business, they buy a spot of land and put a building on it and people shop there. DG was uncannily good at buying land in small, rural hick towns that the big box stores ignored, and becoming de facto monopolies in poverty belt regions.
Most , if not all Dollar General and Family dollar stores are exactly like this !! Slave labor is the best description of the labor force there . Corporate will not change , they just keep hiring ..
30 million "undocumented invaders" will be happy to do the job. I wonder if they were going to be fired for violating company policy? Kick backs from the donations maybe?
Nearly slave labor status is the conservative-capitalist way of life and business. The owners and C-LEVEL staff do not consider those at the bottom rungs of the economic scale as people with actual lives.
Dollar general near me register is always broken and they make customers use self checkout and lines are always long. They need to get their sh** fixed.
I used to work for Family Dollar (Dollar General and Dollar Tree are owned by the same company). Terrible, atrocious company. You are disposable garbage to this company. You're expected to due everything with no staff. You have to run around and stock shelves and ring people out at the same time. You're also expected to watch the store constantly for theft. A list of things that can get you written up and eventually fired: -If theft is too high -If you have too many returns -If you have to void too many items off of an order (aka someone says, never-mind I don't want this anymore). -If you have to change the price of an item because the sale didn't come up on the POS software (thank you for not updating software) Not getting things on the shelf in their allotted time frame (aka 3 days) You don't really have a lot of control over inventory. They send you what you get. Even if they send you overstock of one thing no one wants and never send you something people are literally demanding and asking about. Even if you order it constantly. When I worked there you couldn't get a full time hours and because of that you had: No sick days No vacation days No health insurance No benefits Don't even get me started on any kind of medical injury or bereavement. You will basically lose your job. Their employment model is all sorts of f-cked up. Those items you get there are cheap for a reason. They really cut down on labor costs.
I was a store manager for dollar general. It’s horrible. You aren’t even given enough hours to employ enough people so you can get the products out on the shelves. That’s why you see a lot of push carts blocking the isles. It’s a horrible company
Well I DID!! ME & MY WIFE!! they are a shit company to work for and we did the same shit, walked out!!. We had a lazy ass manager who would come in for 2-3 hours and try to make my wife do HER job. And then got mad because she asked my wife to count her drawer or something to that effect and my wife told her nicely but firmly NO. They TREAT THEIR EMPLOYEES LIKE SHIT!! They expected us to do so much for such little pay. Literally EVERYONE I WORKED WITH hated that job and were on their way out the door. It was one guy in management that was cool named Andrew i think. Im pretty sure he was like 6 hours from leaving his wife for a man because im like almost certain he was closeted gay. I don’t got no problem with gay people, but bruh just be you lol
I have one near me that has the best employees, always friendly and helpful and another one that just opened up closer to me. Its clean, employees are friendly and I have no problems shopping there..
Throwing out stuff that could be used to benefit the less fortunate is a crime. Maybe if corporations realized that pricing their item reasonably in the first place, their product would move off the shelves and they wouldn’t have waste to begin with.
I am so glad that this is happening more often. Employees are taking some control and deciding to quit, enmasse, to make a point. It’s the closest thing to collective bargaining they can do. It might make it better for the next round of people that the company hires. I love hearing this. These corporations are absolutely ridiculous and are out of control.
@@gingermcgarvey7773 If someone has the cahonies to organize, lead and wage a campaign against the corporation, they have great potential for being self-starting self employed people. I would do that!
@@oleradiodudea.m.4735So you don't want to hire people who care and have principles? You are saying a lot about yourself in very few words that isn't exactly glowing.
I assume you've read the 'Feeding America' donation guidelines? Also, you do realize it does 'cost' to donate? That may require prepacking or reboxing, cold storage and transportation. I also assume you've checked out the part where it says - providing expired products could result in legal challenges? This has more to do with lawyers and people suing companies over donated products.
@@harmonygreen1730 On that, we can agree. Not my fav but definitely top 20. The following is said without malice - Have you tried using Bing Copilot, ChatGPT or any of the other AI tools for quick and/or detailed research? When I see/hear videos/stories that stir emotion, I stop and look into them to see the facts behind the hype. Too many stories are bias, fake or misleading. - respect
Have you ever owned a business? Have you ever paid estimated quarterly business taxes? Have you ever been audited by the IRS? The policy is there to adhere to IRS rules and regulations and has NOTHING to do with greed. When a business doesn't sell a product, it can take a tax credit. The IRS will make sure it is thrown away because donating it is a completely different tax situation. A business gets a LARGER credit for donations, meaning if it was all donated, tax money would go straight back to dollar general. They are taking the higher road and NOT allowing tax incentives to be the foundation of revenue. If you have an issue with the way Dollar General's policy is setup, contact your local government legislator, but the result of them donating everything means that the money taken out of YOUR checks will go to a million dollar company for free. What the employes did could have led to a years long IRS audit of Dollar General, where they would literally track every item down to the penny through surveillance cameras. Dollar General is not the bad guy here, the IRS is.
This is no different than car dealerships auctioning new cars for 50 percent less to the auctions rather then sell it to a customer at that same price. Big corporations run this country, lobbyist, bribes, and gifts make them untouchable.
There must be something in the tax code that encourages these things. To auction off a car at 50% of the selling price they charged you for it yesterday. To throw things in that dumpster rather than donate them, just because the label is smeared or the cap leaks. Who reads the labels? Employees always dumpster dive. In 45 years I never saw anything wrong with it.
It is completely different. That is something being sold at a different price. Nothing is getting thrown out. This is usable items being thrown out and adding to our landfill problems when they could be given to someone in need.
@@valerierodgeryou first have to get changes in liability laws when donating expired food items. That is the reason these corporations don’t donate, they are worried that someone could get sick from the items and then sue them. There are also laws that prevent the sales of expired food, so the government would also go after the corporations with some kind of fine. And food banks and soup kitchens don’t take expired items, for the same reasons corporations don’t donate them.
The Dollar General in my community opened about 2 years ago. The checkout equipment is often broken---took a whole year before the self-checkout was functional, about 6 months before more than one station worked. The people who work there are the nicest, most helpful you could imagine---you'd think you were a wealthy movie star shopping at an exclusive Beverly Hills boutique, the way they treat you. But it's like management hasn't the faintest notion how to properly run a retail business---total cluelessness. The employees DO deserve better!
Home Depot is like that. They will ZEMA (mark down to 0 and dumpster) perfectly good merchandise because it is no longer stocked or been on the clearance shelves past the appointed time. Worse, employees have been terminated because they took something out of the dumpster that they really needed or could use.
Isn't that illegal? Taking stuff from a dumpster for recycling/reuse is legal. Parking lots are open to the public, so there's not even a trespassing charge.
@@pathfinderlight Something doesn't have to be illegal for the company to fire someone over it. It just has to violate company policy. But also, a lot of parking lots are private property - probably most. So the store has some say in what you can do there.
@@ironhell813 In MOST states, dumpster diving is perfectly fine and legal unless the company has their dumpsters locked or in a "no trespassing" area. Funny enough, about 90% of companies don't lock their dumpsters OR or them in "no trespassing" locations.
@@PhunkieZero yeah I doubt that the dumpsters have locks for a reason, they constitute private property just as if it was a shed or any other locked container. It’s no legal if it’s on private property or it’s locked.
I'm glad to see these people stand up for their community and against one of the worst companies ever. I worked at Dollar general for a few months several years ago. They left me by myself there once on a truck day. I told all the customers that "our systems were down" . When the last customer walked out put all the tills in the safe, then I locked up the store and drove home. I made them come get the keys from me. I refused to step foot in their stores ever again. It's a horrible company they don't give a rat's ass about their employees they don't care at all.
Same holds true for most of these "discount" stores...Big Lots could care less about their employees, don't appreciate the good loyal ones. They know they can hire another one at minimum wage..but always cutting hours, asking for donations for their own corporate charities and spending money on corporate issues. Companies need to take care and listen to their employees. Paying corp execs 5 mil a year and people who've been these 10+yrs $13. Take care and best to you..❤
Until people stop contributing to capitalism will it finally cease and hopefully change into something better. We need to be the change we want to see.
This 'community' has FAR deeper issues that the Dollar General. Check Google maps...the DG was the ONLY 'grocery store' in this pissant little town. If your town's only store is a DG, then your town sucks ass.
Every Dollar General I have ever been into is barely staffed. I have had to go hunting for employees in the BACK of the store!! None of them seem to be happy with life and I don't blame them.
That's the best place to steal from. That's how I keep making ends meet. I just sneak into DG's and take a few things. I usally make $100 to $200 / day for 30 minutes of work.
Those people should be happy that someone hired them. Doesn't matter how poorly you're treated at work or how "immoral" the policies are. Be thankful that someone didn't care about the font on your resume or the margins on it. Be thankful that someone is paying you.
I was a manager at Walmart and we threw enough Deli and "expired" food away every night to feed a small army. Walmart did donate some stuff but had to throw all the rest away due to fear of unforeseen lawsuits.
Yes, because of the liability and insurance companies, if they donate food that may have been sitting around too long and someone gets sick or worse, the first one to get the lawsuit will be the store that donated the food- these days its INEVITABLE.
I worked at Aldi for three years and they threw away so much product. I wanted to donate the items to a food bank. They didn't want to because it was a "health code violation". These are the same people who tried to force me to hand pick all the moldy strawberries from their containers so we can sell the rest.
@@crowdnine878 not expired items. Food banks and other charitable organizations won’t take expired food items because of the liability issue, and as the OP said, health codes.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68 go to a food bank and look at the dates. Especially bread and canned goods. Even boxed things such as hamburger helper and Lipton/ Knorr products.
If I worked at a grocery store it would be my super hero duty to hoard as much as I can in my tote bag every night of any foods being thrown out and give it to my neighbors👏🤲🦸♀️ ugh if only😩
For those of you that think its awful that employees are fired for taking damaged materials out of company dumpsters... Most companies enforce such policies for a very good reason. If the company allowed employees to regularly go dumpster diving, they know there are a certain percentage of dishonest employees that would purposely damage desirable goods within the store so that they be discarded and thereby gotten for free. Taking the dumpster access away from employees removes this temptation. Now I do agree that many goods are wasted by throwing them away, but you have to realize that companies worry that expired food, food in damaged packages, and broken merchandise can harm those that receive it. Company lawyers figure the cost of throwing it away is less than the costs associated with lawsuits from consumers that might be harmed (or pretend to be harmed) by the discarded items. So while many of you argue that this waste is horrible, the company has a right to protect itself.
It's not just the companies, many states and cities place onerous restrictions on what can be given to the poor. For instance, most places outlaw people making food in their homes, and giving to the poor. Barbers have been arrested for going into parks and homeless encampments, and giving free haircuts and shaves. All in the name of protecting public health of course.
a company's definition with usable is usually defined by lawyers or accountants, trying to donate what you'd think is still usable could put the company in big liability.
I used to work in a craft store. We had boxed items returned with the lids not closed. Some employees "damaged out" these items (this is called "shrink" and affects the store's bottom line), instead of just closing the lid. Other examples could be an item in a bag and the bag was cut open with scissors, therefore also "damaged out" as unsellable instead of just taping a small tear on a bag, or two items together simply not put back in the box and "damaging out" the whole set instead of just putting the items BACK IN THE BOX. The acceptable waste was astonishing.
It's a small detail, but I like how the sign says how much they love their customers. Just a soft reminder that it's not the customers' fault and that the workers appreciated being able to serve them.
you go to a store that sells things for a dollar! How many employees do you think they can afford? Would you rather they raise prices and have more cashiers?
@@timsmith3969 maybe they should be paid appropriately so they would be incentivized to work harder. imagine being over worked and underpaid. why would we care. it’s not hard to run a business. american business owners and corporations alike are just not good at not being dick heads in terms of pay distribution.
@@timsmith3969dollar general doesn't sell things for a dollar, infact there pretty overpriced and not one of the cheaper places to go through making it all the more disgusting on how they treat their staff.
I work at an Aldi's. Yes, we donate and throw away food...mostly bad produce. We donate dented cans, crushed boxes, opened packages. Still edible, but nothing a customer would buy. Are we supposed to just let this stuff clog up the shelves?
Get a load of @@dcg590who thinks their opinion matters. Probably thinks my tax dollars should fund something they think is important too. So entitled... 🤮
@@dcg590they really don't have much of a choice. most of the time, dollar general stores are the only establishments within miles and/or the only non-fast food. Kinda weird that you're siding with a corporation who consistently doesn't give a shit about humans instead of the community members trying to make a living.
They should have been fired. Most companies are greedy but they would embrace a donation for taxes or good will. This means there are reasons they don't donate. From my experience its legal from people like the employees. Abuse and liability. They should have been fired.
I have worked at both KFC and Popeyes where the rule was to throw away the food at the end of the night. We were not allowed to take it home because the company thought the employees would cook more food just to be able to take home. As manager I let the employees buy the leftovers at cost, but my district manager did not like this. I told them that I told the employees what to make and if they made something without my approval we would stop. We had the best food cost numbers in the district and the employees got to eat for fairly cheap. Win/win
It's not meant to survive off of. 🗣 that's why it's called minimum wage H.E.L.L.O What part you do not understand, the 3 Ms 2 I's 1 n and 1 u. In minimum.
Lol, I work part time at an Amazon warehouse and every time I go in there I wonder what little thing might end the partnership that particular shift. Could be something as stupid as a stopped conveyer belt or asking me to remove my earbuds which I refuse to do.
Dollar General has ALWAYS done this horse crap. I worked at a DG 16 years ago, and we were required to not only throw away unsold product, but to DESTROY it first, so no one could dumpster dive for it. Plastic tray didn't sell? Snap it over the side of the dumpster. Ceramic ghost still on the shelf a month after Halloween? Hold it over the dumpster and break it to bits with a hammer. Opening a case of cookies and accidentally slice the cellophane on the top package with your box cutter? Write it off as waste, and give it to the employees as a snack, because they deserve a treat. Just kidding. Tear open the package and dump the cookies straight into the dumpster. We were told we had to do this, so no one could dumpster dive and get something for free. Because if they get an item from the dumpster, that means they won't buy it from the store, and DG would miss out on a Very Important few cents of profit. So much perfectly good stuff, useful stuff, and food, that could've really helped people, went straight from the factory to the trash, simply because if the company can't profit off of it, then no one can have it! Like the company is a possessive, jealous boyfriend. And yes, we were overworked, underpaid, and just generally treated like dirt-and no, corporate doesn't give a rat's ass, lol. And it's not just DG. It's Meijer, Walmart, Kroger, all of them. Matter of fact, when I worked at Meijer (big box grocery and retail store, for those not familiar), we had a book rep that would come in once a week, and change out the books. The ones that didn't sell in an allotted amount of time, the rep would tear off the covers to send back for credit, Perfectly good books. Nothing wrong with them. Just straight in the garbage compactor. When I asked why the books weren't donated to nursing homes, or the like, I was told they used to be, but visitors took them home instead of leaving them at the nursing homes. And?? Once they're donated, what do you care who reads them? Oh. Right. Because if people read donated books, they won't BUY books, and the company won't get their profit. I guess they don't know that libraries are a thing? Honestly, retail is one of the most wasteful industries out there. If people really knew the amount of perfectly good, brand-new items that get thrown away , simply because they didn't sell in a certain amount of time, they would be appalled and sickened. Profit over people. Every single freaking time. It pisses me off, and makes me sick. This greedy country, and indeed this world, is disgusting sometimes.
Last Christmas, I was getting rung up for my items at a dollar general,most employers,had their hours cut, during Christmas time,one lady just started balling she went to 40 hours of work to 12 hours of work in a week. She had 3 small children. I stopped going there after that. That place is a crap hole.
@@panicfever1277 I agree they were going to hire me back in my 20 's full time,then said I'd only work 12 hours a week,so,I never worked for them, thankfully.
I worked at Walmart once and this older lady started crying one day. She told me she'd worked there 40 years and they cut her down to 1 day a week because they wanted her to retire and she'd refused. I quit a couple months after that. These corporations have people over a barrel these days. It's not like back in the old days when there were all these manufacturing jobs that treated their employees right even if you just had a GED. Those jobs are gone.
I agree I used to work there and they do not pay. I was making 729 an hour part-time and they did not allow you time off for any reason on truck day. You were fired if you did not show up on truck day…. That was whether you had a sick kid that was whether you had a bad back that was whether you had any legitimate reason it did not matter you better show up on truck day.
There are states that have higher minimum wages and state mandated personal time off. You (or anyone else that's unhappy) could move to one of those states.
@@gingermcgarvey7773 Try Minnesota. They have higher pay scales for workers, allowances for time off that are publicly mandated and generous social programs.
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@@terryowen6759 correct. But, the principle of the story here is that all ya gotta do is SCRATCH off the corp./company name and DONATE it! Pretty sure you STILL get a TAX BREAK, which is probably not as lucrative as "writing product off as a loss!. It's still a greedy, avaricious, money grubbing thing to do.
@@timg2973Sued for WHAT? That the walking stick will "break?" No... How DARE someone get anything in today's world without paying for the CEO and stockholders' 52nd vacation home!
@@rgaritothere are contracts between the owner/manufacture and retailers. in those contracts often say you can not give it out for free. also there could be a silent recall on an item. you don;t see the bigger picture most people don't. it could also be labeled a medical device and other laws surrounding it.
So many restaurants and business do this. I'm glad these girls are actually standing up to it. There is so much waste out in the world that could help people in need.
Only affects these rural backwater towns though. Why? Because DG is the ONLY 'grocery store' within 50 miles. Check the map! Where on earth do these folks get fresh produce?? They don't. And they are mostly obese and unhealthy as a result. Bigger story here.
@@tjsogmc LOL there are precisely ZERO immigrants in Mineral Point, WI. There isn't even another grocery store or ANYPLACE to buy a tomato. rural rubes
Years ago, I was a single mother w/ 3 boys I was unable to find work . I took a gig setting up and maintaining a display booth at an unnamed big corporation warehouse store. I had to go into the back of the building to retrieve my booth. There I saw They had maybe 12 or more of those xtra large shopping baskets filled over the top w/ rotisserie chickens… I asked “What do you all do with those “? Thinking maybe they donate to a shelter or charity organization or something? WRONG! Goes into the incinerator to be sure no one else can eat them!!!! As a single parent trying to feed 3 growing ( and hungry) boys … this was tragic and heartbreaking!
I'm gonna be honest, I'm not sure how safe they would be to eat. When I worked at a store we kept those things out for as long as we could. I honestly wouldn't trust them
Every Saturday at the store.I work up , we throw away so many vegetables All the ones from the week prior because they continuously send us a new stuff And our stores Doesn't sell a whole lot of the Produce and when I tell you, we throw away perfectly.Good food every week on Saturdays because they won't stop ordering the same amount if not more every week and we only have one little spot for it.But you would be sick at the amount of good food we throw away
Most stores do this. Employees are REQUIRED to throw away inventory. They cannot keep it or give it away. I couldn’t believe the stuff my daughter had to throw away when she worked at a specific store. And they had a trash compactor to stop other people from getting anything out of the garbage.
@@drquack4213Wal-Mart, Dollar General, Target, Dollar Tree, Panasonic, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, HomeDepot, Lowe’s, etc. As you can see, it’s a diverse group of companies that have industrial levels of waste with regards to otherwise perfectly good products.
I used to work for Publix, and for a company that claims it is "intolerant of waste" in the evenings they will throw away as much as TEN perfectly good rotisserie chickens simply because they didn't sell. Every evening near closing.
@@orbitalpudding1946 Actually, yes you CAN donate already cooked chickens. How do I know? Because originally Publix was doing it. Every evening a van would come and they would give the local homeless soup kitchen old bread and the leftover chickens. Plus, they would also give some away to any employee working that night who wanted one. Then one day Publix just stopped doing this. I asked a manager why and got some weird cryptic answers.... "If someone got sick from the chickens (even though there was absolutely nothing wrong with them,) Publix could get sued." And the worst excuse was..."Well, if we give chickens away to employees, then employees won't BUY any." (And, keep in mind that Publix offers NO employee discount to its associates on anything.)
@@alrightyru Most Deli Managers are operating according to the Publix corporate guidelines. Publix has a weird rotisserie chicken guideline. If they cook a chicken at 12 noon, then it has only a four to five hour expiration time. So, at 4PM or 5 the deli will remove these so called "old" chickens, throw them away, and make new ones. I personally don't know exactly how many they throw away in the course of a day, but I had been asked to help with the trash one evening (I worked in another department) and that evening around 10:30 pm they gave me 11 to 12 chickens to throw in the dumpster.
And who have no idea why those policies are in place. It isn’t because these big corporations are evil, like many think, but because they can be liable if someone gets sick or dies from expired food items. There is also the risk of dishonest employees hiding items until they expire and taking the items home for themselves. I would imagine that a lot of the people that they were “donating” to were friends and family. Food banks don’t take expired goods, nor do other charitable organizations. So just who were they donating the items to?
They’re making too much of a carbon footprint. All that stuff could be donated to a homeless shelter. Stop the waste at landfills, recycle as much as possible.
True funny story. 25 years ago my 10 year old came home with a bunch of really cute items. Carrying them in her shirt. When I asked where she got them all she admitted she and her friend had dumpster dove at the Dollar Genersl behind our apartment. I insisted they get in the car and we drove them back to return them. I spoke with the Manager on duty and she said for safety reasons they didn't want anyone in the dumpsters, I agreed, but it was ok for the girls to keep what they found. Apparently this was a normal thing for the Dollar General to ditch items. Many items, toys, pretty little ceramic items were still in boxes. I was shocked then as well. My daughter insisted I keep a little ceramic heart jewelry box of which I still have to this day. Truly is selfish that they can not donate perfectly good items to women's shelters and such instead of filling up landfields.
DG around here got flooded during Harvey. only about 4 inches. but they had to throw away everything in the store. but we had local drivers that would pic up the dumpsters take them off the property and park them down the street and let everyone go threw them. i myself didn't buy any smokes for 6 months. and a friend didn't buy any beer for at least 3 months. both our pick ups was full to the max when we left. but we wasn't allowed to take it from the dumpster until it left the property.
I drove trash truck 4 a company off Ortega hwy. years ago. Big Corp. Bought them out. 1st. Employee meeting they say No mo salvaging. Drivers immediately moaned loud. Made job worse. Going back an stuff often gone. Big reason I quit.
When I worked at a foot wear factory they told me that since they claimed thrown stuff on taxes or something like that and got their cost back, they weren't allowed to give away. We had to cut them to keep people from using them. We threw 1000s a year. I'm not sure if the truth but made sense at the time.
Good for them! We did the same thing at Joann Fabrics (and this was way back in '07). We had a box out of packs of sharpies for back to school, and when the sale was over, we were told to throw out what didn't sell. Huge packs of sharpies (17 in a pack) throw out when they could have been donated to a school. 😢
That one doesn’t make much sense. I can understand not selling them at a discount vs getting credit, some people would simply hide items and wait to buy them at a discount. But giving them to a school is different. And markers have a pretty long shelf life, they could have easily kept on the shelves to be sold off sale.
i love Dollar General it is one of the greatest spots to do some dumpster diving at lest 2-3 times a month i go to 6 different Dollar General stores and i fill the back of the car every time i try not to take cold food other then in the winter but snacks and some sodas house hold goods are absolutely fine all year long over the last 5 or so years i have gotten about $8k-$12k or more worth of product that was totally fine to eat drink and give away
I love going through trash! Most often I find something cool that I can take home for "Free Dollars." The other night I was up late and witnessed a homeless person going through my trash on my security cameras. I always shred papers that contain sensitive information so I hope they found something they can use.
Its about our litigious society - the damn lawyers! If DG sells expired food, customer gets sick and sues DG. The producer of the product also gets dragged in the media, and can lose millions in stocks value. Do I agree w it all? No, but in this world it makes sense.
Not only that - but then all the people criticizing DG now for throwing it away - would then change their criticism of how the "corporate world" doesn't care about people letting them eat "rotten food."
@@lextacy2008not true, there is still liability for donated food stuff, thats why many companies would rather trash it and take the loss on their books.
I work for Dollar General, as a Temp. driver. They wanted me, to do 3-mens jobs. Over the road and unloading. Basically, for free. I went along with everything, for a week. After a week, me and another Temp. drivers, got new job assignments, with another good companies. The job position would been good if they had 3 to 4 people to do the job. Where I live, the Daller, don't care how well the manager, does his job. THEY TREAT THEM POOLY.
Jeffery C. Owen Dollar General Chief Executive Officer's total compensation is $12,032,684 Rhonda M. Taylor Dollar General Executive Vice President & General Counsel's total compensation is $3,249,391 John W. Garratt Dollar General President & Chief Financial Officer's total compensation is $4,303,436 They can afford to pay living wages and to donate to the needy.
@@dcg590 you not getting that when an employee quits, they don’t get unemployment, shows how out of touch you are. The people are waking up and that terrifies you.
@@Usernotfound31231actually most states will give you unemployment if you quit if you have certain “grievances”. And I bet you these people will apply for unemployment claiming to have grievances and this claim they quit over the no donating policy is just to have another reason they had to quit. If they quit just because they felt they were underpaid or understaffed, they wouldn’t get any unemployment. But claiming they have a moral issue gives them a legit grievance. The fact that they even said they felt underpaid and overwork proves that it wasn’t about the donation policy. And this news story only helps them. I had an employee quit my cafe because they said they couldn’t lift the bussing trays when clearing the tables. She claimed she had a bad back and it hurt her too much to lift the trays. The state got involved because she claimed I didn’t provide for her “disability”. The case was finally denied because she had no proof of a back injury and had signed an employment form with me stating she had read what her duties were and that she had no physical reasons not to do them.
Yes, because of the liability and insurance companies, if they donate food that may have been sitting around too long and someone gets sick or worse, the first one to get the lawsuit will be the store that donated the food- these days its INEVITABLE.
Don't forget that company that donated all their muffin stumps to the homeless shelter to only get harassed by the people who worked at the shelter. They got all angry yelling at the company saying that the homeless deserve more than the muffin stumps even though they were perfectly edible. This is why they don't do it anymore.
i counted 3 teeth between all of them, I don't understand how throwing things away is "cooperate greed". It's avoiding liability cases by some of the nitwits that will eat "expired" food and claim they got sick and want to sue... It's NOT the company's fault, It's humanities greed, not corperates.
The fact that the people can just quit and walk away from their job tells you that corporate doesn’t value them or the community they operate in. Power to the people.
I worked at walgreens, we were allowed to package up items that were one month away frome expiring to be donated but if it was like 3 weeks away we had to throw it in the compactor. We threw away a tremendous amount of food.
Wait, so D.G thinks useable, unopened products should be in the GARBAGE than at the THRIFT & SALVATION ARMY stores???? omfw. Make it make sense. Btw, here's a perfect example of community coming together & getting things done - so PROUD of this team & i SUPPORT your efforts by NOT shopping there. Thank you! ❤❤
Wait, so a person that knows nothing about how a business is run is making stupid comments? There are liability issues that prevent DG and other retailers from donating expired items, along with health codes that prevent donating said items. Food banks and other charitable groups will not take expired items either, so who are you going to give those items to? And allowing employees to take it home encourages some bad ones to hide items until they expire and simply get them for free. As for any of the toys and such being thrown out there is still a liability issue if the items have been tampered with or opened. But for the most part, those items would just set on the shelf of a Goodwill or thrift store for months and then thrown out. Unless there are laws put in place to protect these companies from law suits, expired items will continued to be thrown out. So don’t blame the companies, blame the politicians and greedy lawyers.
Unfortunately these policies exist thanks to unscrupulous employees who have taken advantage of donation policies. Corporations have these policies for a reason; likely a few bad apples ruined the donation policy for some items. Additionally, government regulations and legal liabilities have a big effect on what can be donated. The government and courts do not differentiate between the company selling or donating the items.
That's messed up. There was a Dollar General near where I live in Michigan. We lost power and it was in a small town and they were told to throw everything away in the freezer section and refrigerator instead of reaching out and giving it away. I mean. The town was small enough and Facebook was active.People could have got there quick enough to save the food
Yes, and if one person decided to sue DG for making her sick with bad food, DG could lose thousands or millions of dollars. There is no upside for DG. Can't really blame them. It's the world we live in.
My local DG said the highest paying position was Manager and they would be hard pressed to convince the owner to shell out $9/hour even then 🚮…went straight to target for $18/hr the next week. That DG is closed now
Rare to see people stand up for something these days.
Imagine the waste at bigger corporations.
Good for them.❤
It's huge!!!
@@Styrofo4m
What? K Mart still exists somewhere?
What exactly were they standing up for? It's not their property and it's not for them to make up their own policy. If they really didn't want whatever it was thrown away(Funny how The Press never asked them that) then they could have purchased the merchandise with their own money and then donated whatever it was. To me all they did was made themselves more unhirable for future employment.
@@Styrofo4mthey should've thought of it during COVID-19 outbreak
@@jvanek8512it's quite complicated because donating items that could cause harm to someone is an open door to a lawsuit
The amount of stuff they throw away is criminal.
My wife was a Dollar Gen, asst manager and she was accused of stealing for bringing home stuff that they were throwing in the dumpster. She quit on the spot.😊
@@gregoryhodge9452 My niece used to set the throw away stuff on the back dock. There was a homeless camp nearby. If anything was left in the morning, she'd put it in the dumpster, but she said that seldom happened.
The issue is if the item isn't on the list and it is donated, the recipient can sue if they " feel " harmed by the item ( like day old food ) . There is just too much liability there and you would do the same.
@@bobroberts2371. Makes sense, you have to watch your back always.
@bobroberts.....that's what I explained to my hubby. Couple years ago on Undercover Boss for 7-11 he wondered why they didn't donate the food for the day. Turns out they did for a long time but more recently someone got sick off a sandwich and sued therefore they stopped.
don't hold your breath waiting to hear back from corporate 😂😂😂
^^Right. How's that blue-in-the-face-not-breathing thing working out for them? Lol
You guys act like this is a good thing or some gotcha moment.
I’ve called them and they called back a month later.
@@1320passI don’t know. How’s that “going on the internet just to be a douche” working out for you?
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These people are awesome for bringing this up. 🎉🎉
Yes now they can go on welfare and we can pay for them.
Dude, I work at a hardware store and the amount of perfectly good stuff we throw out is ridiculous.
My son, 36, is fortunate enough to work for a hardware store that does allow him to bring it home. They also give him broken things, that he repairs and usually donates it himself to someone in need.
Where is your dumpster located?
Shame
Then do something about it.
now you're going to be on tiktok every time you take out the trash. I've been filmed taking out trash by kids that think they're going to jump in and grab treasure. it's one of the reasons employees are okay with destroying the merch per policy.
The same feeling was had when I worked for a Sam's Club. Every week, we'd count up how many entire cases of member's mark water we'd throw away just because they were missing one or two bottles. Thousands upon thousands of bottles of unopened water, thrown in the compactor, and we all, employees and members both, were forbidden from keeping it or giving it to folks that needed it because it was counted as a company loss. And that's just water. Food, clothing, hardware, tools, toiletries, hundreds of rolls of tp and paper towels, all tossed because of foolish, FOOLISH "company policy". Complete waste.
That’s more a problem with GAAP.
Fook Sam's Blow Job club of crappy shyt.
I used to work for Anheuser-Busch. They would dump pallets and pallets of beer if the color on the label was just a shade off. Honestly, I always thought nobody would care about that stuff anyways.
I used to say that the bottling area was an alcoholic's worst nightmare, to see all that beer get dumped over a coloring problem on the label and you can't drink it.
The least they could do is let employees buy it at a discount
@@crayonchomper1180 I would think so, but then again, you open a new issue: state control of alcohol sales. You would need a beer and wine license to sell it (different from manufacturing it). The state wants their tax money and license fees.
They could give it away as they do beer giveaways for events, but they don't.
Now, if it was back when my dad started with the company, they could just put it in commercial refrigerators and people could drink it on their break. Back then (mid 80s), you could consume alcohol so long as you were on your scheduled break. Employees were happy and the local police were happy for all that revenue for DUIs (catch them as they were exiting the parking lot, according to my dad.) MADD and some politicians didn't like that policy, so the brewery had to put an end to it.
Imagine if all employees across America realized we have this power.
But, it doesn't say the policy was changed. Based on this story, one store was closed over the weekend, that's it.
@@compugasmYou’re not comprehending the point of the comment you responded to. Yes it was ONE store, but the comment states “imagine if ALL employees across America realized we have this power.” If ALL employees realized this, the whole American economy would change. Is this going to happen? Absolutely not. However employees like the one here in this video show us that working Americans do indeed have more power than they could possibly imagine. Even if it’s just one store.
@@compugasmI’m a union leader and we refer to your mentality as “too far gone” and we move on to work with more intelligent and courageous workers
Power? Six employees left and were replaced
@@anonymousbosch9265 you should divert some time and spend it on comprehension and communication. the person made a perfectly legit point and you want to disparage their intelligence and courage.
I love the two signs together. "It's not easy to Quit." and "We QUIT!" right next to each other. 😂 The first is talking about smoking.
Good eye
That’s hilarious lol
Nobody wants to work these days
Most companies are claiming to want to go green, yet this place is demanding they throw product in the garbage instead of giving to those in need and who could use it. Shame on the company! Good for the employees for taking a stand.
Companies do nothing but lie. If they said something good and useful, you already know they didn't mean it. smh
When I worked for Hot Topic (almost 20 years ago) they threw away clothes, bags, etc. I remembering asking about donating them locally and they said no. If it was found out we would didn't throw them away and donated them then we would be fired.
Giving away things for free just makes people even more lazy and let's be honest this stuff will end up in the hands of lazy people and illegal immigrants
It's called capitalism.
@@vanessa.85Because donations are returned for cash or credit. Scammers caused that problem.
This is nothing new. I worked at Dillards department store, which is a high-end department store, I worked in the bed and bath department. We would get complete bedding collections returned because one piece of the set was a bit damaged. These sets could be anywhere from $200-$800. We would have to cut a big hole in every piece and put them in the dumpster. We were told this was so that no one could return the items for a refund. I was disgusted with this policy, but had to do it. This isn’t just Dillards, or Dollar Stores, this is every retail outlet has a policy like this.
I didn't understand the reason before but that makes sense. Smart policy actually. Those homeless will return the sheets 5 times.
If we didn't have thieves and dishonest people that policy would not be needed. Destroying the merchandise makes sense.
@@donotsupportterroristgroups I agree, the items should be marked in some way to avoid a scam. I saw many perfectly good comforters , blankets, towels, all being just thrown away. The defect would be minor from the manufacturer, and the hole or cutting would be minor, but it would still get just tossed in the garbage.
It's not right to punish the good or needy because of the dishonest @@donotsupportterroristgroups
All they have to do is require a receipt for return.
Makes no sense throwing stuff away that others could use. It's a corporate thing
That's because you don't understand business. Businesses are business to make . If they give the stuff away instead of throwing it out then no one will buy it. People will just wait until they give it away. Everything that they throw away is a loss write off of 100 percent of the product if they donate it they only get to claim 50 percent and if they give it away they don't get to claim nothing ( 0 percent )
Plus people get things for a lesser price or pick through the trash for free stuff and then try to return it to the store for cash. They throw tantrums in the store to embarrass the managers and get their own way. I worked at a higher priced store and they had to destroy items before throwing them away for this very reason. It isn’t always the corporation that’s at fault. Don’t forget the thieves and scammers that take advantage of everything including what corporations try to do for good.
@@ralphsnow2337 The employees are talking about donating goods to charitable organizations, not individual customers. Those companies can afford to claim 50%. And anyway, it's worth the great PR.
@@ralphsnow2337 Still sounds like a greed thing to not give away perfectly good merchandise!
It's a matter of food. Saw a undercover boss episode from 7-11 where he wanted to know why they didn't donate the days food. They used to but after decades someone got a bad sandwich and got sick and sued so the gubberment told them to could no longer do it.
I worked at a Dunkin donuts in New York once, where at the end of the day wed give usually 100 or so donuts out to the homeless, as per policy, until a homeless guy sued them over stale donuts, and won. Changed policy immediately, and the homeless man got a good chunk of money and ruined it for everyone else in the process. Now all those donuts go right in the dumpster.
We used to have a mill and bakery store here in town. for years they'd throw out "expired" product into a dumpster out back. It was perfectly fine for the most part, and the dumpster was never used for anything else, so it was clean and practically brand new. We dived that thing for years, getting all kinds of good stuff, until they eventually set up a system to donate all of it to local food distribution networks. That went on like that until the mill was closed and torn down down, and the bakery outlet store followed a few years later.
He couldnt have been homeless if he could afford to sue. They could have counter sued. This sounds ridiculous
@@LavenderDream-j5h You know not of lawyers.
Your first problem was treating the homeless like people
Suing over a free stale donut, and winning? That is crazy on both fronts.
Remember people. You vote with your money.
This has nothing to do with politics stupid, dont go full politicaltard
This has nothing to do with voting lol this has been a issue for years. And Years
Dont go full politicaltard
@@robertruge2916 dumb people "thumbs-up" dumb comments
Yes, always follow the money.
I used to dumpster dive at grocery stores and the amount of good usable stuff they threw away was mind boggling. I only quit when the town I live in passed an ordinance making it illegal to take anything out of a dumpster, despite a national law protecting stores in case food from a dumpster makes anyone sick. Sad fact is, stores HATE anyone getting anything for free and want it all to be dumped in landfills.
Most stores actually dump chemicals on the food too. I dumped my bosses coffee on his head and walked out of a job once because my boss was bragging about it, hoping he would "teach the bums a lesson"
Left him by himself (I was the only guy who hadn't quit yet)
Some pet stores throw away live animals. It’s awful.
Dollars General has cameras all over, and the supervisor there got a clipboard to count how many are counted as "damaged goods", stolen, opened, missing, ect, ect all so the owner of Dollar General can collect A BIG INSURANCE CHECK.
As for the trash in the dumpster, you may very well be right. They hate someone getting free stuff, when legally, and by definition, it's just trash by now!! As soon as it enters, it's trash!!
😳😠
I worked at a chain grocery store for 18 years and we threw away NOTHING that was not out of date or otherwise unsellable. We repacked damaged-package items for return to the distribution center and some further sale or donation.
If you a REAL MAN, a dumb law would not stop you. Laws or no laws, I take what I want.
That is a great reason to always shop Mom&Pop shop locally owned and operated. We can't cut corporate out completely but we can shut them way down. Big Corp don't care about no one only about the money and they don't care how they get it!!! Let's make America Great again and support small locally owned businesses and products that are truly made in America
Most people I know who preach shopping at mom and pop stores can be found loading up their carts at Wal Mart or Costco. The vast majority of people will always shop where they can find the best prices. "Big Corp." and "Green Friendly" are talking points that very few Americans even care about.
Yeah, but I find it often that mom n pop stores don’t have what I’m looking for, even big corp stores sometimes don’t have what I’m looking for.
Go start a business.
Most didn't survive covid. Most of the small businesses are service-centric but the unique and eclectic are not readily replicated, even on the same plot. DG had no problem reopening the store with staff who had a particular rule drilled into them during training. There's a lesson for all to see. Gripe all you like about corporate greed, I'll probably agree with you. But a corporation is a machine by design. A unique cultural model in many cases.
DG went the same way the Ben Franklin stores did way back when. Remember when Wal-Mart sold American-made products? How long does a washing machine work?
Americans are a nation of walking ATMs.
@@MrOiram46 Amazon is the best
In the very early 2000's I was an assistant store manager for a pizza hut in NW Ohio. we had the pizza buffet m-f for lunch. At the end of every buffet we would store all of the un-eaten buffet food and take it to the local homeless shelter. We never asked corporate for permission and we never told them what we were doing.
When I was a poor starving college student 40 years ago I used to bring home leftover pizza from Pizza Hut buffet where I worked. I wouldnt have had food if it wasn’t for that pizza. To this day my husband can’t understand why I’m not a big fan of pizza. When that’s all you had to eat for weeks and months on end, it ruins it for you.
I worked at a Pizza Hut for 6 months, in 1999. When I started, all the extra pizzas each week (deliveries that couldn't be made, mess ups that we didn't eat, etc) were put in the walk-in, and at the end of the week, someone from a homeless shelter would come collect them. By the time I quit, the shelter had decided it didn't want to serve pizza anymore, as it was deemed "too unhealthy", so all those perfectly good pies just went in the trash. IDK about you, but if I was homeless and living in a shelter, I would look at a weekly pizza dinner as a real treat. And I wouldn't care that I was unhealthy. I'd just be glad I had food in my belly.
@@mariebelladonna437 That's crazy. So I guess they had enough taxpayer funds to buy "healthy" food instead of taking donations.
@@kencurtis2403 beats the hell outta me. I just know what I was told. But it does make you wonder.
That job wasn't all bad, though. I mean, I met my husband there. So there is that, lol. 😊
My nephew used to work for a coffee chain and he said the amount of food they had leftover every night was baffling. They were not allowed to give any of it to charity. (Despite there being a very reputable local charity about 5 minutes away.) Corporate policy was to throw it all in the garbage. However, they had a branch manager with a heart, and he would pretend not to notice when the staff filled up their backpacks each night with the leftovers.
Maybe for legal reasons - if you donate edible stuff and someone gets sick there might be substantial legal risks
so make them sign a waiver absolving them of responsibility. What a lazy excuse
@@ilyarepin7750 If you were the exec you'd think twice. I'm not a lawyer. Will a waiver be bulletproof? Maybe there's exceptions. You wanna lose your job and your pension if you turn out to be wrong making these decisions? Are you going to hire a law firm to develop this mechanism?
I'm not giving them excuses, just telling you their process.
I agree completely that corporations waste shameful amounts of product. However, there is another, very real issue with allowing employees to use their discretion when marking out product...SOME employees then believe they can take anything. I worked for a high end housewares store, and I witnessed employees intentionally damaging a product so it would be marked out and they took a home as it was slated for the trash. Not every employee has the best intentions.
The reason is because they cant write it off as a loss but its still pretty dumb to not just give that stuff away to the needy.
Having that sign on the left saying "It's hard to quit" and the sign on the right saying "We quit!" makes this even better
I don’t see how, one’s clearly about cigarettes.
@@ericbattista9341 Oh I know, it's just a strange coincidence!
@@dracofirex Eh.
Literally thought the same thing when I saw it haha
@@ericbattista9341you must be an absolute riot among your friends
It’s a stupid tax write off when they throw it away instead of donating. Laws need to change too
No its a tax write off both ways but they are avoiding a law suit if they throw it in the trash. If it is food items and someone gets sick they can sue them. This happens all over the US.
Regardless of how they dispose of inventory, the cost of the disposed inventory is an expense on their income statement.
Wouldn't they lose sales if you could get their items for free at the local donation store.
*sigh* and the sad part is that it is true @@johnunsicker7440
They can get a tax right off donating, they just won't do it
I LOVE that the manager and assistance manager were part of the walkout. TRUE team solidarity!
The ones that walked out were probably the only employees of that store, Dollar General severely under Staffs their stores.
Anyone that works a DG should be well aware of the fact that DG don't take care of their employees at all! DG is the epitome of "Over worked, under paid, not appreciated". The reason thy pop up everywhere is NOT because they are such a good company to work for because they aren't! But because the local "Politicians" get paid well to let them in the community!
agree 100%. my son opened and closed a store ! unloaded trucks and ran the store all by himself. couldn't get help and regional managers didn't care!
I take it you've never worked at Wally World where "Dead Peasant" insurance is collected FREQUENTLY.
"Local politicians" don't get kickbacks to let DG in. That's hilarious. Like any business, they buy a spot of land and put a building on it and people shop there. DG was uncannily good at buying land in small, rural hick towns that the big box stores ignored, and becoming de facto monopolies in poverty belt regions.
Nobody cares.
We didn't even get breaks and had to snack at the registers.
Most , if not all Dollar General and Family dollar stores are exactly like this !! Slave labor is the best description of the labor force there . Corporate will not change , they just keep hiring ..
To hire someone that means they accepted the job because they wanted it. So this "slave labor" is nonsense.
30 million "undocumented invaders" will be happy to do the job.
I wonder if they were going to be fired for violating company policy?
Kick backs from the donations maybe?
Nearly slave labor status is the conservative-capitalist way of life and business. The owners and C-LEVEL staff do not consider those at the bottom rungs of the economic scale as people with actual lives.
@@jvanek8512oh yes, tell us all about it. You must LOVE exploitation.
@@todddanforth8853no it isn’t. It’s both parties!!
Yes, this is a crap company. Never worked there, I did shop there. Not anymore.
Dollar general near me register is always broken and they make customers use self checkout and lines are always long. They need to get their sh** fixed.
I used to work for Family Dollar (Dollar General and Dollar Tree are owned by the same company). Terrible, atrocious company. You are disposable garbage to this company. You're expected to due everything with no staff. You have to run around and stock shelves and ring people out at the same time. You're also expected to watch the store constantly for theft.
A list of things that can get you written up and eventually fired:
-If theft is too high
-If you have too many returns
-If you have to void too many items off of an order (aka someone says, never-mind I don't want this anymore).
-If you have to change the price of an item because the sale didn't come up on the POS software (thank you for not updating software)
Not getting things on the shelf in their allotted time frame (aka 3 days)
You don't really have a lot of control over inventory. They send you what you get. Even if they send you overstock of one thing no one wants and never send you something people are literally demanding and asking about. Even if you order it constantly.
When I worked there you couldn't get a full time hours and because of that you had:
No sick days
No vacation days
No health insurance
No benefits
Don't even get me started on any kind of medical injury or bereavement. You will basically lose your job.
Their employment model is all sorts of f-cked up. Those items you get there are cheap for a reason. They really cut down on labor costs.
I was a store manager for dollar general. It’s horrible. You aren’t even given enough hours to employ enough people so you can get the products out on the shelves. That’s why you see a lot of push carts blocking the isles. It’s a horrible company
Well I DID!! ME & MY WIFE!!
they are a shit company to work for and we did the same shit, walked out!!. We had a lazy ass manager who would come in for 2-3 hours and try to make my wife do HER job. And then got mad because she asked my wife to count her drawer or something to that effect and my wife told her nicely but firmly NO. They TREAT THEIR EMPLOYEES LIKE SHIT!! They expected us to do so much for such little pay. Literally EVERYONE I WORKED WITH hated that job and were on their way out the door. It was one guy in management that was cool named Andrew i think. Im pretty sure he was like 6 hours from leaving his wife for a man because im like almost certain he was closeted gay. I don’t got no problem with gay people, but bruh just be you lol
I have one near me that has the best employees, always friendly and helpful and another one that just opened up closer to me. Its clean, employees are friendly and I have no problems shopping there..
Throwing out stuff that could be used to benefit the less fortunate is a crime. Maybe if corporations realized that pricing their item reasonably in the first place, their product would move off the shelves and they wouldn’t have waste to begin with.
Talk about irony: "Hard to quit" sign next to "we quit" sign.
saw that
I came for this comment. I'm always looking for Easter eggs like this.
The "It's not easy to quit" sign so close to "WE QUIT" is hilarious.
I am so glad that this is happening more often. Employees are taking some control and deciding to quit, enmasse, to make a point. It’s the closest thing to collective bargaining they can do. It might make it better for the next round of people that the company hires. I love hearing this. These corporations are absolutely ridiculous and are out of control.
God help them if the story follows them to the next job they apply for. I wouldn't hire one of them because the same might happen again.
They are just out of work. They aren't protected by a Union or anything. They will hire 6 more people that need a job.
@@gingermcgarvey7773 If someone has the cahonies to organize, lead and wage a campaign against the corporation, they have great potential for being self-starting self employed people. I would do that!
@@oleradiodudea.m.4735So you don't want to hire people who care and have principles? You are saying a lot about yourself in very few words that isn't exactly glowing.
More often? Who else has done this?
Yay, stand for what is right. I support all of you and would have done the same thing!
I assume you've read the 'Feeding America' donation guidelines?
Also, you do realize it does 'cost' to donate? That may require prepacking or reboxing, cold storage and transportation.
I also assume you've checked out the part where it says - providing expired products could result in legal challenges?
This has more to do with lawyers and people suing companies over donated products.
@@Wayward2023 you know what they say about assuming.
@@harmonygreen1730 Yeah, it says many make comments without bothering to put in any research work, so they just sit back and virtual signal.
Seems you like Kansas. Maybe we can agree on that. My fave band.
@@harmonygreen1730 On that, we can agree. Not my fav but definitely top 20.
The following is said without malice - Have you tried using Bing Copilot, ChatGPT or any of the other AI tools for quick and/or detailed research? When I see/hear videos/stories that stir emotion, I stop and look into them to see the facts behind the hype. Too many stories are bias, fake or misleading. - respect
This is a prime example of love thy neighbors ... No government can tell you how to take care of each other and do what's wrong. Stick together ❤
You mean no company right? The goveenment has no say in this story.
This wasn't the government. This was the company.
Grateful to them ALL for standing up for what is GOOD & RIGHT May our God Who Restores & Replenishes Restore&Replenish these fine people. GodBless
Thank you for standing up and being a good human being
Thank you for covering this story.
Have you ever owned a business? Have you ever paid estimated quarterly business taxes? Have you ever been audited by the IRS? The policy is there to adhere to IRS rules and regulations and has NOTHING to do with greed. When a business doesn't sell a product, it can take a tax credit. The IRS will make sure it is thrown away because donating it is a completely different tax situation. A business gets a LARGER credit for donations, meaning if it was all donated, tax money would go straight back to dollar general. They are taking the higher road and NOT allowing tax incentives to be the foundation of revenue. If you have an issue with the way Dollar General's policy is setup, contact your local government legislator, but the result of them donating everything means that the money taken out of YOUR checks will go to a million dollar company for free. What the employes did could have led to a years long IRS audit of Dollar General, where they would literally track every item down to the penny through surveillance cameras. Dollar General is not the bad guy here, the IRS is.
This is no different than car dealerships auctioning new cars for 50 percent less to the auctions rather then sell it to a customer at that same price. Big corporations run this country, lobbyist, bribes, and gifts make them untouchable.
There must be something in the tax code that encourages these things. To auction off a car at 50% of the selling price they charged you for it yesterday. To throw things in that dumpster rather than donate them, just because the label is smeared or the cap leaks. Who reads the labels? Employees always dumpster dive. In 45 years I never saw anything wrong with it.
It is completely different. That is something being sold at a different price. Nothing is getting thrown out. This is usable items being thrown out and adding to our landfill problems when they could be given to someone in need.
@@valerierodgeryou first have to get changes in liability laws when donating expired food items. That is the reason these corporations don’t donate, they are worried that someone could get sick from the items and then sue them. There are also laws that prevent the sales of expired food, so the government would also go after the corporations with some kind of fine. And food banks and soup kitchens don’t take expired items, for the same reasons corporations don’t donate them.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68 nobody is wanting to donate expired food.
The Dollar General in my community opened about 2 years ago. The checkout equipment is often broken---took a whole year before the self-checkout was functional, about 6 months before more than one station worked. The people who work there are the nicest, most helpful you could imagine---you'd think you were a wealthy movie star shopping at an exclusive Beverly Hills boutique, the way they treat you. But it's like management hasn't the faintest notion how to properly run a retail business---total cluelessness. The employees DO deserve better!
Home Depot is like that. They will ZEMA (mark down to 0 and dumpster) perfectly good merchandise because it is no longer stocked or been on the clearance shelves past the appointed time. Worse, employees have been terminated because they took something out of the dumpster that they really needed or could use.
Isn't that illegal? Taking stuff from a dumpster for recycling/reuse is legal. Parking lots are open to the public, so there's not even a trespassing charge.
@@pathfinderlight Something doesn't have to be illegal for the company to fire someone over it. It just has to violate company policy. But also, a lot of parking lots are private property - probably most. So the store has some say in what you can do there.
@pathfinderlight The dumpsters belong to the company so they charge you for breaking and entering as if it was the store.
@@ironhell813 In MOST states, dumpster diving is perfectly fine and legal unless the company has their dumpsters locked or in a "no trespassing" area.
Funny enough, about 90% of companies don't lock their dumpsters OR or them in "no trespassing" locations.
@@PhunkieZero yeah I doubt that the dumpsters have locks for a reason, they constitute private property just as if it was a shed or any other locked container. It’s no legal if it’s on private property or it’s locked.
These are good people and they made the right decision. God bless them ❤
Amazing people, god bless them
I'm glad to see these people stand up for their community and against one of the worst companies ever.
I worked at Dollar general for a few months several years ago.
They left me by myself there once on a truck day.
I told all the customers that "our systems were down" .
When the last customer walked out put all the tills in the safe, then I locked up the store and drove home.
I made them come get the keys from me. I refused to step foot in their stores ever again.
It's a horrible company they don't give a rat's ass about their employees they don't care at all.
Same holds true for most of these "discount" stores...Big Lots could care less about their employees, don't appreciate the good loyal ones. They know they can hire another one at minimum wage..but always cutting hours, asking for donations for their own corporate charities and spending money on corporate issues. Companies need to take care and listen to their employees. Paying corp execs 5 mil a year and people who've been these 10+yrs $13. Take care and best to you..❤
Until people stop contributing to capitalism will it finally cease and hopefully change into something better. We need to be the change we want to see.
This 'community' has FAR deeper issues that the Dollar General. Check Google maps...the DG was the ONLY 'grocery store' in this pissant little town. If your town's only store is a DG, then your town sucks ass.
@@he_lives_in_apineapple_und9743 Oh, here we go. Comrade.
@@he_lives_in_apineapple_und9743 Yes, comrade, capitalism is the problem. /s
Truth support your employees!
Every Dollar General I have ever been into is barely staffed. I have had to go hunting for employees in the BACK of the store!! None of them seem to be happy with life and I don't blame them.
That's the best place to steal from. That's how I keep making ends meet. I just sneak into DG's and take a few things. I usally make $100 to $200 / day for 30 minutes of work.
well i mean its an entry level job ... id hate life too if i was adult working a job meant for a teenager.. lol
Dollar Tree with 1 cashier every time.
OBLIGATORY CREEPER COMMENT: I'd have come out of the backroom for you, Danielle.
Good for you guys. More people need to stand up.
Those people should be happy that someone hired them. Doesn't matter how poorly you're treated at work or how "immoral" the policies are. Be thankful that someone didn't care about the font on your resume or the margins on it. Be thankful that someone is paying you.
Have fun losing your job and trying to buy food in this economy.
I was a manager at Walmart and we threw enough Deli and "expired" food away every night to feed a small army. Walmart did donate some stuff but had to throw all the rest away due to fear of unforeseen lawsuits.
Yes, because of the liability and insurance companies, if they donate food that may have been sitting around too long and someone gets sick or worse, the first one to get the lawsuit will be the store that donated the food- these days its INEVITABLE.
I worked at Aldi for three years and they threw away so much product. I wanted to donate the items to a food bank. They didn't want to because it was a "health code violation". These are the same people who tried to force me to hand pick all the moldy strawberries from their containers so we can sell the rest.
Aldi is a German company. Meaning, a Nazi company. No joking.
Other retailers give to food banks
@@crowdnine878 not expired items. Food banks and other charitable organizations won’t take expired food items because of the liability issue, and as the OP said, health codes.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68 go to a food bank and look at the dates. Especially bread and canned goods. Even boxed things such as hamburger helper and Lipton/ Knorr products.
If I worked at a grocery store it would be my super hero duty to hoard as much as I can in my tote bag every night of any foods being thrown out and give it to my neighbors👏🤲🦸♀️ ugh if only😩
For those of you that think its awful that employees are fired for taking damaged materials out of company dumpsters... Most companies enforce such policies for a very good reason. If the company allowed employees to regularly go dumpster diving, they know there are a certain percentage of dishonest employees that would purposely damage desirable goods within the store so that they be discarded and thereby gotten for free. Taking the dumpster access away from employees removes this temptation.
Now I do agree that many goods are wasted by throwing them away, but you have to realize that companies worry that expired food, food in damaged packages, and broken merchandise can harm those that receive it. Company lawyers figure the cost of throwing it away is less than the costs associated with lawsuits from consumers that might be harmed (or pretend to be harmed) by the discarded items.
So while many of you argue that this waste is horrible, the company has a right to protect itself.
So many companies do this, they just throw away untouched unsold items. These employees are real heroes.
It's not just the companies, many states and cities place onerous restrictions on what can be given to the poor. For instance, most places outlaw people making food in their homes, and giving to the poor. Barbers have been arrested for going into parks and homeless encampments, and giving free haircuts and shaves. All in the name of protecting public health of course.
@@UlrichW-mm8yz It's not technically legal here in red state SD but how often it actually gets penalized is probably pretty low.
@@UlrichW-mm8yz obese, white women complaining, that is definitely Dixie.
"Dollar General: We'd rather throwout products that are still usable rather than donating them" - essentially the official company response
a company's definition with usable is usually defined by lawyers or accountants, trying to donate what you'd think is still usable could put the company in big liability.
@@PandaMan02 A lot of people don't understand that and how much a company can lose
I used to work in a craft store. We had boxed items returned with the lids not closed. Some employees "damaged out" these items (this is called "shrink" and affects the store's bottom line), instead of just closing the lid. Other examples could be an item in a bag and the bag was cut open with scissors, therefore also "damaged out" as unsellable instead of just taping a small tear on a bag, or two items together simply not put back in the box and "damaging out" the whole set instead of just putting the items BACK IN THE BOX. The acceptable waste was astonishing.
Dollar trees as well sadly
@@PandaMan02no it cant
We had a store in Champlain NY close for the same reason. Every employee quit.
Yeah it happens a lot with doller generals I worked in one a year ago the whole staff quit
It's a small detail, but I like how the sign says how much they love their customers. Just a soft reminder that it's not the customers' fault and that the workers appreciated being able to serve them.
in every dollar general there’s always 1 cashier handling a line of 20 with no back up
you go to a store that sells things for a dollar! How many employees do you think they can afford? Would you rather they raise prices and have more cashiers?
@@timsmith3969 i’d rather have the cashier paid appropriately so they would be incentivized to do their job well
@@timsmith3969 maybe they should be paid appropriately so they would be incentivized to work harder. imagine being over worked and underpaid. why would we care. it’s not hard to run a business. american business owners and corporations alike are just not good at not being dick heads in terms of pay distribution.
Check the self check out and the fact the starting wage is 8.50 per hour a single store makes about 10 to 30k a day
@@timsmith3969dollar general doesn't sell things for a dollar, infact there pretty overpriced and not one of the cheaper places to go through making it all the more disgusting on how they treat their staff.
You guys should see the amount of food big groceries throw away.
Liability
I'll one up you there. Take a look at what farmers leave to rot or otherwise discard because stores want 'perfect' looking produce.
^That's the kicker that NOBODY talks about, unsightly food get tossed even tho it's perfectly fine to eat.
@@Shteven They are places that will take it.
I work at an Aldi's. Yes, we donate and throw away food...mostly bad produce. We donate dented cans, crushed boxes, opened packages. Still edible, but nothing a customer would buy. Are we supposed to just let this stuff clog up the shelves?
Every Dollar General store in USA needs to be investigated for employee abuse
Do these grown adults choose to work there? Yes. Not abuse. They are excepting the pay and rules when they decide to work there.
@@dcg590You pay shit, you get shit. Go move the company to Russia.
Get a load of @@dcg590who thinks their opinion matters. Probably thinks my tax dollars should fund something they think is important too. So entitled... 🤮
@@dcg590they really don't have much of a choice. most of the time, dollar general stores are the only establishments within miles and/or the only non-fast food.
Kinda weird that you're siding with a corporation who consistently doesn't give a shit about humans instead of the community members trying to make a living.
@@dcg590I hope life sneak up on you sideways and gives you a humbling chapter. Remember these words
They should have been fired. Most companies are greedy but they would embrace a donation for taxes or good will. This means there are reasons they don't donate. From my experience its legal from people like the employees. Abuse and liability. They should have been fired.
I have worked at both KFC and Popeyes where the rule was to throw away the food at the end of the night. We were not allowed to take it home because the company thought the employees would cook more food just to be able to take home. As manager I let the employees buy the leftovers at cost, but my district manager did not like this. I told them that I told the employees what to make and if they made something without my approval we would stop. We had the best food cost numbers in the district and the employees got to eat for fairly cheap. Win/win
Federal minimum wage to still $7.25. but housing has went to an average of 2000$ how do they expect anyone to survive. We have to eat food too
It's not meant to survive off of.
🗣 that's why it's called minimum wage H.E.L.L.O
What part you do not understand, the 3 Ms 2 I's 1 n and 1 u.
In minimum.
Then you need to get a better job. You don't have to work for them. Minimum wage jobs are not intended to be careers
@@Mr.Atlanta850
Stupid.
@@doug6259
Dumbass.
@@doug6259did you just come up with that? I’ve never heard anyone say that. Brilliant!
You have motivated me to walk out of my job
👏
Because they asked you to work and you accepted their offer?
It's spelled accepted! The exception is a new development.
Lol, I work part time at an Amazon warehouse and every time I go in there I wonder what little thing might end the partnership that particular shift. Could be something as stupid as a stopped conveyer belt or asking me to remove my earbuds which I refuse to do.
@@bertroost1675 by the way everyone, I’m self employed
Dollar General has ALWAYS done this horse crap. I worked at a DG 16 years ago, and we were required to not only throw away unsold product, but to DESTROY it first, so no one could dumpster dive for it. Plastic tray didn't sell? Snap it over the side of the dumpster. Ceramic ghost still on the shelf a month after Halloween? Hold it over the dumpster and break it to bits with a hammer. Opening a case of cookies and accidentally slice the cellophane on the top package with your box cutter? Write it off as waste, and give it to the employees as a snack, because they deserve a treat. Just kidding. Tear open the package and dump the cookies straight into the dumpster.
We were told we had to do this, so no one could dumpster dive and get something for free. Because if they get an item from the dumpster, that means they won't buy it from the store, and DG would miss out on a Very Important few cents of profit. So much perfectly good stuff, useful stuff, and food, that could've really helped people, went straight from the factory to the trash, simply because if the company can't profit off of it, then no one can have it! Like the company is a possessive, jealous boyfriend. And yes, we were overworked, underpaid, and just generally treated like dirt-and no, corporate doesn't give a rat's ass, lol.
And it's not just DG. It's Meijer, Walmart, Kroger, all of them.
Matter of fact, when I worked at Meijer (big box grocery and retail store, for those not familiar), we had a book rep that would come in once a week, and change out the books. The ones that didn't sell in an allotted amount of time, the rep would tear off the covers to send back for credit, Perfectly good books. Nothing wrong with them. Just straight in the garbage compactor. When I asked why the books weren't donated to nursing homes, or the like, I was told they used to be, but visitors took them home instead of leaving them at the nursing homes. And?? Once they're donated, what do you care who reads them? Oh. Right. Because if people read donated books, they won't BUY books, and the company won't get their profit. I guess they don't know that libraries are a thing?
Honestly, retail is one of the most wasteful industries out there. If people really knew the amount of perfectly good, brand-new items that get thrown away , simply because they didn't sell in a certain amount of time, they would be appalled and sickened.
Profit over people. Every single freaking time. It pisses me off, and makes me sick. This greedy country, and indeed this world, is disgusting sometimes.
Last Christmas, I was getting rung up for my items at a dollar general,most employers,had their hours cut, during Christmas time,one lady just started balling she went to 40 hours of work to 12 hours of work in a week. She had 3 small children. I stopped going there after that.
That place is a crap hole.
Lowes is notorious for doing that to cashiers. They continually hire people on, then cut the hours of the existing workers.
@@panicfever1277 I agree they were going to hire me back in my 20
's full time,then said I'd only work 12 hours a week,so,I never worked for them, thankfully.
I worked at Walmart once and this older lady started crying one day. She told me she'd worked there 40 years and they cut her down to 1 day a week because they wanted her to retire and she'd refused. I quit a couple months after that. These corporations have people over a barrel these days. It's not like back in the old days when there were all these manufacturing jobs that treated their employees right even if you just had a GED. Those jobs are gone.
Shame on you DG!!!!
More like shame on the employees. Its not your stuff to give away.
Let them come to your house and give stuff away.
@crazyone1067 wrong this more about donations this is about dg and the community in general.
I agree I used to work there and they do not pay. I was making 729 an hour part-time and they did not allow you time off for any reason on truck day. You were fired if you did not show up on truck day…. That was whether you had a sick kid that was whether you had a bad back that was whether you had any legitimate reason it did not matter you better show up on truck day.
oh my gosh - piece of meat get to work - very sad
Here is an idea. Company should be paying for a logistics company to unload it. But that would make too much sense.
There are states that have higher minimum wages and state mandated personal time off. You (or anyone else that's unhappy) could move to one of those states.
If you only work Pt. and you can't figure life out.🤣 You got more problems than work.
@@gingermcgarvey7773 Try Minnesota. They have higher pay scales for workers, allowances for time off that are publicly mandated and generous social programs.
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CVS tried to have me arrested for donating discontinued walking sticks to a VA nursing home in Richmond Virginia.
they did not want to be sued. and you compromised that.
The bottom line is the product belongs to the Company to do with as they want, regardless of anyone's good intentions to give it to someone in need
@@terryowen6759 correct. But, the principle of the story here is that all ya gotta do is SCRATCH off the corp./company name and DONATE it! Pretty sure you STILL get a TAX BREAK, which is probably not as lucrative as "writing product off as a loss!. It's still a greedy, avaricious, money grubbing thing to do.
@@timg2973Sued for WHAT? That the walking stick will "break?" No... How DARE someone get anything in today's world without paying for the CEO and stockholders' 52nd vacation home!
@@rgaritothere are contracts between the owner/manufacture and retailers. in those contracts often say you can not give it out for free. also there could be a silent recall on an item. you don;t see the bigger picture most people don't. it could also be labeled a medical device and other laws surrounding it.
I think this has to do with tax laws and how you write this off of taxes. The tax laws a completely stupid. They creat huge amounts of waste.
sometimes it takes a brave person to make a change for all of us.... God bless the all.
So many restaurants and business do this. I'm glad these girls are actually standing up to it. There is so much waste out in the world that could help people in need.
looks to me as though they have been helping themselves for awhile. fat much?
Awesome, well done guys much respect! 👌👏👍💯
This is going on all over the country
Only affects these rural backwater towns though. Why? Because DG is the ONLY 'grocery store' within 50 miles. Check the map! Where on earth do these folks get fresh produce?? They don't. And they are mostly obese and unhealthy as a result. Bigger story here.
So are more and more lazy people.
It's not a problem because every year there's 3.5 million new workers coming up from the south
@@tjsogmc How many have ruined your life so far?
@@tjsogmc LOL there are precisely ZERO immigrants in Mineral Point, WI. There isn't even another grocery store or ANYPLACE to buy a tomato. rural rubes
Years ago, I was a single mother w/ 3 boys I was unable to find work . I took a gig setting up and maintaining a display booth at an unnamed big corporation warehouse store. I had to go into the back of the building to retrieve my booth. There I saw They had maybe 12 or more of those xtra large shopping baskets filled over the top w/ rotisserie chickens… I asked “What do you all do with those “? Thinking maybe they donate to a shelter or charity organization or something?
WRONG! Goes into the incinerator to be sure no one else can eat them!!!!
As a single parent trying to feed 3 growing ( and hungry) boys … this was tragic and heartbreaking!
I'm gonna be honest, I'm not sure how safe they would be to eat. When I worked at a store we kept those things out for as long as we could. I honestly wouldn't trust them
Every Saturday at the store.I work up , we throw away so many vegetables All the ones from the week prior because they continuously send us a new stuff And our stores Doesn't sell a whole lot of the Produce and when I tell you, we throw away perfectly.Good food every week on Saturdays because they won't stop ordering the same amount if not more every week and we only have one little spot for it.But you would be sick at the amount of good food we throw away
Dollar general has conducted an internal investigation and has found no wrongdoing.
Most stores do this. Employees are REQUIRED to throw away inventory. They cannot keep it or give it away. I couldn’t believe the stuff my daughter had to throw away when she worked at a specific store. And they had a trash compactor to stop other people from getting anything out of the garbage.
Name the store
@@drquack4213Wal-Mart, Dollar General, Target, Dollar Tree, Panasonic, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, HomeDepot, Lowe’s, etc. As you can see, it’s a diverse group of companies that have industrial levels of waste with regards to otherwise perfectly good products.
Wow! That is so awesome of these guys! Please keep reporting on this!!
I APPLAUD those workers.
I used to work for Publix, and for a company that claims it is "intolerant of waste" in the evenings they will throw away as much as TEN perfectly good rotisserie chickens simply because they didn't sell. Every evening near closing.
The Deli manager should be sacked for waste
Can’t donate already cooked chickens fam plus sounds like someone is over cooking which is the bigger problem with the associates
@@orbitalpudding1946 Actually, yes you CAN donate already cooked chickens. How do I know? Because originally Publix was doing it. Every evening a van would come and they would give the local homeless soup kitchen old bread and the leftover chickens. Plus, they would also give some away to any employee working that night who wanted one. Then one day Publix just stopped doing this. I asked a manager why and got some weird cryptic answers.... "If someone got sick from the chickens (even though there was absolutely nothing wrong with them,) Publix could get sued." And the worst excuse was..."Well, if we give chickens away to employees, then employees won't BUY any." (And, keep in mind that Publix offers NO employee discount to its associates on anything.)
@@alrightyru Most Deli Managers are operating according to the Publix corporate guidelines. Publix has a weird rotisserie chicken guideline. If they cook a chicken at 12 noon, then it has only a four to five hour expiration time. So, at 4PM or 5 the deli will remove these so called "old" chickens, throw them away, and make new ones. I personally don't know exactly how many they throw away in the course of a day, but I had been asked to help with the trash one evening (I worked in another department) and that evening around 10:30 pm they gave me 11 to 12 chickens to throw in the dumpster.
@@starbrand3726to be fair, if I wanted a chicken that was cooked 10 hours ago, I'd just microwave leftover garbage.
People with morals, that's fresh in this day and time.😊
And no jobs now
And who have no idea why those policies are in place. It isn’t because these big corporations are evil, like many think, but because they can be liable if someone gets sick or dies from expired food items. There is also the risk of dishonest employees hiding items until they expire and taking the items home for themselves. I would imagine that a lot of the people that they were “donating” to were friends and family. Food banks don’t take expired goods, nor do other charitable organizations. So just who were they donating the items to?
They’re making too much of a carbon footprint. All that stuff could be donated to a homeless shelter. Stop the waste at landfills, recycle as much as possible.
Thank the most high for good people like this still taking a stand. Blessing be upon them for doing right in the eyes of the Most High.
Jesus Christ is the most high!!🎉❤
im pretty high myself
Sign: "It's not easy to quit"
Also Sign: "WE QUIT!"
People do things without them being easy, have you never been faced with adversity in your life? Otherwise why did you comment?
I’ve always found min wage jobs easy to quit. There’s usually another right next door.
True funny story. 25 years ago my 10 year old came home with a bunch of really cute items. Carrying them in her shirt. When I asked where she got them all she admitted she and her friend had dumpster dove at the Dollar Genersl behind our apartment. I insisted they get in the car and we drove them back to return them. I spoke with the Manager on duty and she said for safety reasons they didn't want anyone in the dumpsters, I agreed, but it was ok for the girls to keep what they found. Apparently this was a normal thing for the Dollar General to ditch items. Many items, toys, pretty little ceramic items were still in boxes. I was shocked then as well. My daughter insisted I keep a little ceramic heart jewelry box of which I still have to this day. Truly is selfish that they can not donate perfectly good items to women's shelters and such instead of filling up landfields.
"Underpais, under-appreciated, and overworked."
Thats all retail jobs.
I have to know what they were donating!
Used prophylactics.
We need more people like this. With BACK BONE❤
DG around here got flooded during Harvey. only about 4 inches. but they had to throw away everything in the store. but we had local drivers that would pic up the dumpsters take them off the property and park them down the street and let everyone go threw them. i myself didn't buy any smokes for 6 months. and a friend didn't buy any beer for at least 3 months. both our pick ups was full to the max when we left. but we wasn't allowed to take it from the dumpster until it left the property.
I drove trash truck 4 a company off Ortega hwy. years ago. Big Corp. Bought them out. 1st. Employee meeting they say No mo salvaging. Drivers immediately moaned loud. Made job worse. Going back an stuff often gone. Big reason I quit.
Good on these guys for sticking together!! Leafing by example!!
Ya great, now more people looking for welfare because they are entitled l0sers who think their opinion matters
When I worked at a foot wear factory they told me that since they claimed thrown stuff on taxes or something like that and got their cost back, they weren't allowed to give away. We had to cut them to keep people from using them. We threw 1000s a year.
I'm not sure if the truth but made sense at the time.
Some states it's illegal to scavenge a dumpster for things that can be used.
@@muffs55mercury61 yes that's why they cut them.
Good for them! We did the same thing at Joann Fabrics (and this was way back in '07). We had a box out of packs of sharpies for back to school, and when the sale was over, we were told to throw out what didn't sell. Huge packs of sharpies (17 in a pack) throw out when they could have been donated to a school. 😢
That one doesn’t make much sense. I can understand not selling them at a discount vs getting credit, some people would simply hide items and wait to buy them at a discount. But giving them to a school is different. And markers have a pretty long shelf life, they could have easily kept on the shelves to be sold off sale.
You mean felt markers?
Fast forward two weeks and they announce they’re closing hundreds of stores across the nation. Truly sick.
i love Dollar General it is one of the greatest spots to do some dumpster diving at lest 2-3 times a month i go to 6 different Dollar General stores and i fill the back of the car every time i try not to take cold food other then in the winter but snacks and some sodas house hold goods are absolutely fine all year long over the last 5 or so years i have gotten about $8k-$12k or more worth of product that was totally fine to eat drink and give away
Probably because the employees there are disobeying the rules.
I love going through trash! Most often I find something cool that I can take home for "Free Dollars." The other night I was up late and witnessed a homeless person going through my trash on my security cameras. I always shred papers that contain sensitive information so I hope they found something they can use.
Just don't end up sueing when u get poked by needles or poisoned by bad food,drink cuz thats y they have rules,policies to protect against such cases
@@brandonvalle7901 That's fair enough.
@@brandonvalle7901Maybe you can cite a few of those suits?
Its about our litigious society - the damn lawyers! If DG sells expired food, customer gets sick and sues DG. The producer of the product also gets dragged in the media, and can lose millions in stocks value.
Do I agree w it all? No, but in this world it makes sense.
Donations are not sold. Anything you get for free does not come with a warranty or consumer protections.
Not only that - but then all the people criticizing DG now for throwing it away - would then change their criticism of how the "corporate world" doesn't care about people letting them eat "rotten food."
@@lextacy2008 You can still be sued whether you sold it or gave it away.
@@lextacy2008not true, there is still liability for donated food stuff, thats why many companies would rather trash it and take the loss on their books.
@@lextacy2008 That is simply not true. If DG gives away food and the receiver gets sick DG is liable.
I work for Dollar General, as a Temp. driver. They wanted me, to do 3-mens jobs. Over the road and unloading.
Basically, for free. I went along with everything, for a week. After a week, me and another Temp. drivers, got new job assignments, with another good companies. The job position would been good if they had 3 to 4 people to do the job. Where I live, the Daller, don't care how well the manager, does his job. THEY TREAT THEM POOLY.
Everyone need to walk out on these jobs who won’t pay
Jeffery C. Owen
Dollar General Chief Executive Officer's total compensation is $12,032,684
Rhonda M. Taylor
Dollar General Executive Vice President & General Counsel's total compensation is $3,249,391
John W. Garratt
Dollar General President & Chief Financial Officer's total compensation is $4,303,436
They can afford to pay living wages and to donate to the needy.
ABSOLUTE LEGENDS. Huge salute to these heroes
Jobless hero’s who will now expect tax payers to pick up their bills 🤮
@@dcg590 you not getting that when an employee quits, they don’t get unemployment, shows how out of touch you are. The people are waking up and that terrifies you.
@@Usernotfound31231He probably makes a couple cents for every post. He aspires to make minimum wage at a dollar store.
@@Usernotfound31231 How would this terrify anyone?
@@Usernotfound31231actually most states will give you unemployment if you quit if you have certain “grievances”. And I bet you these people will apply for unemployment claiming to have grievances and this claim they quit over the no donating policy is just to have another reason they had to quit. If they quit just because they felt they were underpaid or understaffed, they wouldn’t get any unemployment. But claiming they have a moral issue gives them a legit grievance. The fact that they even said they felt underpaid and overwork proves that it wasn’t about the donation policy. And this news story only helps them.
I had an employee quit my cafe because they said they couldn’t lift the bussing trays when clearing the tables. She claimed she had a bad back and it hurt her too much to lift the trays. The state got involved because she claimed I didn’t provide for her “disability”. The case was finally denied because she had no proof of a back injury and had signed an employment form with me stating she had read what her duties were and that she had no physical reasons not to do them.
I used to work at the local arena. The amount of perfectly good food we had to throw away was insane
Yes, because of the liability and insurance companies, if they donate food that may have been sitting around too long and someone gets sick or worse, the first one to get the lawsuit will be the store that donated the food- these days its INEVITABLE.
Don't forget that company that donated all their muffin stumps to the homeless shelter to only get harassed by the people who worked at the shelter. They got all angry yelling at the company saying that the homeless deserve more than the muffin stumps even though they were perfectly edible. This is why they don't do it anymore.
@@chan13153 wasn’t that from a Seinfeld episode?
i counted 3 teeth between all of them, I don't understand how throwing things away is "cooperate greed". It's avoiding liability cases by some of the nitwits that will eat "expired" food and claim they got sick and want to sue... It's NOT the company's fault, It's humanities greed, not corperates.
The fact that the people can just quit and walk away from their job tells you that corporate doesn’t value them or the community they operate in. Power to the people.
They had only 3 employees
I worked at walgreens, we were allowed to package up items that were one month away frome expiring to be donated but if it was like 3 weeks away we had to throw it in the compactor. We threw away a tremendous amount of food.
Imagine living in the most productive nation on Earth and still complaining. Go to Zimbabwe
Wait, so D.G thinks useable, unopened products should be in the GARBAGE than at the THRIFT & SALVATION ARMY stores???? omfw. Make it make sense. Btw, here's a perfect example of community coming together & getting things done - so PROUD of this team & i SUPPORT your efforts by NOT shopping there. Thank you! ❤❤
Wait, so a person that knows nothing about how a business is run is making stupid comments? There are liability issues that prevent DG and other retailers from donating expired items, along with health codes that prevent donating said items. Food banks and other charitable groups will not take expired items either, so who are you going to give those items to? And allowing employees to take it home encourages some bad ones to hide items until they expire and simply get them for free. As for any of the toys and such being thrown out there is still a liability issue if the items have been tampered with or opened. But for the most part, those items would just set on the shelf of a Goodwill or thrift store for months and then thrown out. Unless there are laws put in place to protect these companies from law suits, expired items will continued to be thrown out. So don’t blame the companies, blame the politicians and greedy lawyers.
Unfortunately these policies exist thanks to unscrupulous employees who have taken advantage of donation policies. Corporations have these policies for a reason; likely a few bad apples ruined the donation policy for some items.
Additionally, government regulations and legal liabilities have a big effect on what can be donated. The government and courts do not differentiate between the company selling or donating the items.
That's messed up. There was a Dollar General near where I live in Michigan. We lost power and it was in a small town and they were told to throw everything away in the freezer section and refrigerator instead of reaching out and giving it away.
I mean. The town was small enough and Facebook was active.People could have got there quick enough to save the food
Yes, and if one person decided to sue DG for making her sick with bad food, DG could lose thousands or millions of dollars. There is no upside for DG. Can't really blame them. It's the world we live in.
My local DG said the highest paying position was Manager and they would be hard pressed to convince the owner to shell out $9/hour even then 🚮…went straight to target for $18/hr the next week. That DG is closed now