Question regarding unsold food at Safeway and Costco

Hi friends,

Just wondering if anyone know how safeway and costco handles the expired unsold vegetables, fruits, and meat?

Do they simply throw them away?

Thanks,

Terence

 

Don't know what Safeway or Costco do with unsold food.

The rumor I heard about T&T is they cook their closed to expiry food to sell as hot food/chinese take out.

 

It does make sense from a business point of view and it's technically OK.

 

Safeway probably uses it for their deli items (subs, salads, soups etc). Nothing wrong with using it for cooked items, but some places will just relabel it with a new expiry date. One of the Superstores in Vancouver got caught doing that by one of the media companies. It was expired meat too .

A friend (not the most reliable guy I admit) that worked at the Marine Dr. Superstore told me some nasty stories about their baked goods. For example, employees dropping dough on the dirty floor and not throwing the batch out or workers accidentally leaving knives/utensils in the commercial stand mixers, turning it on and then cooking the metal laden dough anyway.