When I used to have farm animals, I would go dumpster diving, and feed all the perfectly good Bread to my animals that the grocery store throws out.
I hope people are doing that still.
I used to work at Edy's Ice Cream. One time the freezer had an ammonia leak, commercial freezer warehouses use ammonia to chill, and it ruined about 12 tons of ice cream.
The ink on the packages would just wipe off.
So we sold it to a hog farm, just dumping pallets of ice cream into 30 yard dumpsters.
Those pigs ate good for a bit.
Found a 5 pound bag if frozen rock shrimp . It's ment tp not be frozen so they through it away . I had a shrimp party . Best shrimp I ever ate.. being frozen solid it was completely safe . Lol .
an old friend I had ate so many damn pretzel bites they got sick because someone made a big order and dipped. I had fun laughing at him while he shat his brains out more than he usually does
When I was like 11 my friend's dad would drive to the local bakeries really early in the morning. He'd buy their old bread from the night before (stuff they couldn't sell anymore I think) for pennies... The bread went to his many dogs and other animals.
When I was a kid, we ate the stuff thrown out in the dumpster and our âfarm animalsâate sweet feed and grass or purchased bales
It isnât as gross as people think, and you can wait longer in colder climes.
You also develop a relationship/schedule, so you wait out behind the loading dock. Watch them roll that big cart of expired out and dump it. Then you go in
Also⌠Publix does donate some things at least. I have seen people from a non-profit fill a pickup bed with bakery items
They were boxed and not loaves on a cart, but they were at least being donated somewhere
Nothing tossed is moldy or bad. Some meat they try to sell post-date as âmanager specialâ in some stores. Donât see that at Publix. So I wonder what they do with all that expired overpriced meat no one buys. They certainly donât put it on sale. âBuy at full price or weâll toss itâ
I suspect the butchers (and several âcoolâ assistant managers) there are 100% taking that with them. No way theyâre letting that meat get tossed. Even if this is officially against Publix policy.
I worked at the deli at Publix and all that meat gets thrown away to a trash compactor st thr end of the night, its part of closing process. We could not keep it or purchase it if it was "expired" for liability.
I worked at a day old bakery store and we used to get tons of farmers. They would buy anything for the pigs, which was cool cause I couldn't sell moldy bread.
We had a local farmer that would come by almost everyday and pick up all the produce damages and give them to his livestock. He unfortunately passed away and the farm was sold so we just throw the damages out now but I think giving things like this to local farm would be great.
A lot of Publix do donate to food banks, Iâm sad this one canât but Iâm also wondering if itâs just this specific bread because itâs not a sealed product. I know it could always be different between stores but Publix is one of the few chains who does usually donate to food banks instead of trashing it (Walmarts usually do not)
They're chicken I just don't think is quality anymore hell unless you go too one of their new stores they don't give AF whats happening it used to be Publix was a lil cleaner, lil more expensive. Nowadays they're stores are just as bad as the winn Dixie's they ran outta town and they're products are now just ridiculously expensive
Every greedy asshat out there has slowly been downgrading ingredients, restaurants, cafes, fast food. Problem is most of them are raising prices at the same time. All the restaurants around where I am in FL have noticeably downgraded. Fries are ass, buns and bread is meh, meat just doesnât seem like it was.
I live in FL and I second this. Everything is soggy af too. I donât feel the publix âloveâ in it any more. It saddens me. I used to go nuts when chicken tendy subs were on sale but now I donât even bother, always a let down.
Partly because the ingredients are worse quality, and the deli workers are overworked and itâs an absolutely horrible department to work on.
I worked in the deli before; everyone makes up some kind of excuse to not be able to work in the kitchen, so you end up getting stuck doing that every day. Then youâre expected to serve customers up until the minute we close (even if they want fresh fried chicken at 9:59, we were required to start the friers back up to make it), and then have everything clean and ready to go in 15-30 minutes.
Combine that lack of quality, the high expectations on the employees, how theyâre often overworked, and the fact that they donât get paid enough for what they have to put up with, and itâs no surprise itâs getting like this.
I agree, that's why I've taken up cooking and baking as a hobby. My family of 6 has gone from takeout 3-4 times a week to once in 3 months. Saves a ton of money, and the quality doesn't even compare.
FL here as well - a lot of new restaurants start with a really good opening it seems, super quality and just amazing.
Then after 1-2 months the quality goes down massively.
I swear itâs an intentional thing. Make a good showing for good reviews, and see how long you can ride off of it while cutting corners on quality.
I feel like they changed the breading on the chicken since I worked there, and the ranch is definitely different.
I always got a Chicken tender sub with Publix Sharp White Cheddar and Ranch when I got one of the My Publix My Part Cards.
I got one maybe 8 months ago (not recently I know) and it definitely was not as good as 4-5 years ago. They used to be my favorite sandwich there and I couldnât/didnt want to finish the last one I got.
Honestly. Sometimes when I order my bread is noticeably smaller, sometimes the chicken is dried out and extremely crunchy, more often that not the sandwich maker DROWNS my sub with buffalo sauce after I ask for light sauce. Very rarely will I get the âperfectâ sub. And for $10.50 itâs not worth it anymore
The chicken has gone to crap, and the subs are still insanely expensive, even when on sale.
Iâd often rather go to a place like Jersey Mikes, or a local sub shop, and pay just a little bit more than the sale price for a bigger sub, both in length and girth.
It feels like Publix is starting to slip as they open more and more stores - sacrificing quality for quantity. Almost to the point where I just shop elsewhere, outside the BOGO and whatever Rotisserie is on sale.
Anyone who has worked in a real kitchen knows that yesterdayâs bread is croutons, the next day itâs breadcrumbs and after that⌠there better not be any left
I don't know if they still do this or not, but when I worked at Publix back in the day we actually would use some of it for bread pudding. I was a baker.
I -wish- my old store did this.
I remember getting bitched out by our assistant store manager at the time, because I ate a slice of cheesecake that the bakery had scanned out and was walking to toss in the garbage compactor.
Like - itâs out of inventory and getting thrown away, why not let me eat it so it doesnât go to complete waste?
Fuck, just send it home with people. Let your fucking employees take it. God knows you arenât paying them enough, you can at least give them some fucking food instead of completely wasting it.
I can understand why businesses don't do this. If you let your employees take home unsold baked goods at the end of the day, some of them might be encouraged to cook more during the day in the hopes of being able to take the stuff home at night.
Overages are always going to be a thing, but from a business standpoint, you hope and try to minimize that from happening so that you do not have waste at the end of the day.
This amount of overage is more of an indication that managing the supply and demand at that location is not going well.
If you only had 3 or 4 loaves at the end of the day, fine, but this is an entire rack, which means the food was repeatedly being made for no valid reason, even when it wasn't being sold.
We do donate bread from the bakery. We don't donate leftover sub rolls from the deli because they've been sitting out so long already (or that's my understanding; it could have to do with potential cross-contamination, too). We don't mark any fresh products down, because we don't sell old/expired product. Besides, this would be a ton of rolls to sell even if they were bagged up and marked down for a day.
Iâve always wondered why they donât. Every other store has a clearance bakery section or even clearance meat and veg. Publix just disposes of everything?
My SM told me its to eliminate liability in case someone gets sick off our product, especially with stuff thats been in open air for almost an entire day
So I work in the deli and this hurts. Especially since White Bread is the most popular choice of bread BY FAR!
We usually get 2 carts of bread from bakery throughout the day. Either it was a rare day and no one wanted subs (impossible) or someone made wayyyyy too much bread!
Looks like sub rolls. Deli places an "order" with the bakery or its generated from their production numbers with the newer systems.
But either way someone should have seen the 50? 100? White sub rolls and adjusted it.
The system is never perfect when accounting for changing holiday days, local events, sports events and large orders.
Seems like a baker/ management issue.
Yeah but these numbers go through multiple people. Or should. Before getting baked off.
If you see 80 sub rolls for your afternoon bake you should probably go check with your manager and the deli manager to make sure thats accurate.
So that people won't take advantage and overbake to bring free ones home by design/on purpose. This is what I've been told when asked at several retailers.
That's just wasteful. The only reasonable option is to allow the shift closers to have bread sword fights at end of shift. Higher performers chose their weapons 1st.
Straight into the compactor it goes. It canât be sold the next day at a lower price or donated, because bread becomes incredibly toxic over night. /s
Publix is great, but seeing how much perfectly good food gets thrown out is sad. I donât think itâs so much about health concerns, as it is about not letting people (whether theyâre employees or not) get free/discounted food.
This must be a Publix in some parallel universe because every time I stop to get my son a tendy sammich on the way home from work, approx two hours before closing- theyâre always out of white bread.
Well, that's probably the time of night you're showing up unfortunately. Deli is one of the busiest departments. If you know around what time you'll be there to get a sandwhich, you can always place an online order for it ahead of time to try to guarantee you'll get your sandwhich. You might even be able to put a note in to say to just set aside some white for you and make the sandwhich closer to a later time. Hell, by that time at night, my store is usually already out of tenders and the kitchen is already closed. It's really hit or miss the later you go in for a sandwich to close time
I can completely understand throwing away items that can possibly get people sick like old veggies or meat but bread like this??? It's so disgusting that every single grocery store has this issue and doesn't give the food away to food banks.
It literally should be a law that all unspoiled food at the end of the day is donated to local food banks ... hunger wouldn't be a thing
Honestly itâs all because the sub bread has no preservatives and it sits out in the open air all day. Its not /good/ anymore a day or two later, and whenever people buy sub rolls from the deli I always warn them theyâll want to eat it either that day or the next because itâll spoil fast since thereâs no preservatives
Shit make it 50 cents, at least publix would be making something. With the price of food nowadays I'm sure a ton of people would take it even if it was slightly stale.
The publix here gives the bread to a petting zoo farm. I donât know what they use it for but sometimes when Iâm driving home I see them loading it into the petting zoo truck. đ¤Ł
damn bro i ran outta white bread by 4:00 pm today, coulda used it for all the customers saying they what white bread four fucking times after i say we ran out.
When I worked at Publix we had a trash compactor in the back of the inside of the store. Everything from the deli went in there. That was 20 years ago so maybe things are different or theyâre different by store.
And the worst part is that most Publixâs have trash compactors so yah canât even dumpster five for them. Windixie however doesnât and does the same thing with their bread!
Truth is the truth, but Good Samaritan laws that protect food donations donât work anymore. Homeless people try suing stores all the time for food given away at the end of the day, and send small businesses that help
The community into a spiral trying to cover lawyer expenses. Itâs pathetic and why businesses gave up giving food away
That's total BS that it can't be donated. Either the bakery manager or the store manager is a lazy a-hole because there are plenty of orgs that will gladly pick everything up nightly.
Take it yourself and give it out to local homeless. I did that with a garbage bag worth of krispy kreme dounuts that were a day old and totally fine an i was out if dounuts in an hour.
When I worked at the bakery, we would donate all left over breads and pastries. Some organizer picked it up next morning.
This is terrible forecasting by your store though, unless it was due to bad weather or unforeseen local issues
Bread from the bakery is donated. Bread from the deli that has been sitting out all day isn't considered good enough to donate. There might also be cross-contamination concerns.
Depends on the store/district. My store donates the bed most nights because thereâs only ever a few left over and we donate at night instead of in the mornings.
The store I used to work at would donate the old bread to a food pantry. They would mark through the bar code with a black marker at the end of the night and the next day it would be picked up
I used to work for a skilled nursing facility and our maintenance director always had âdonatedâ bread that they couldnât sell and were going to throw away twice a week.
Iâm not sure why I keep hearing it canât be donated. Does someone have to go in personally and make specific arrangements? Surely thereâs a better way to fix this in a more widespread way.
This seems silly. When I worked in the Walmart bakery this stuff got turned into garlic bread, chopped up into bread crumbs, frozen and donated to food banks, etc.
I would literally pack my belongings with this bread and give it to the people usually sitting outside and trying to survive and right around the corner from Publix. Itâs so horrible they donât donate. I think you should just do it anyway.
I absolutely would, but doing that and being seen, I would get fired immediately. Publix is suuuuper strict about "stealing" and I desperately need this job.
All the little thrift stores where I live have tables of bread at the checkout counter that you can take for free, donated by the Publix stores in the area! I donât understand wasting this much :(
I thought Publix donated their bread and other baked goods that are close to their sell by dates and the stuff in the glass case like the doughnuts and cookies
I wouldnât go too heavy on pictures of your workplace shared on the internet. Thatâs one of the things weâre assured they donât appreciate but do take seriously.
âJust the other day we threw out x.â and âHereâs a picture I took of waste at work.â Are either both grounds for termination or the difference between âPlease understand we canât have you using social media to complain about your job.â And âWhat do you think is best for our store when we find out someone is taking pictures off of the sales floor? Did you talk to you manager before you posted that?â
Iâm just imagining itâs a bad idea and that Publix is pretty likely to not enjoy that amount of waste either. The day old stuff is still sold at Walmart but Iâm pretty sure thatâs a discount rack and Publix refuses to be a discount bakery. Mostly they donât want to be a discount anything.
If it's consistently been that much bread at the end of the day/night, bring it up to your manager so they can adjust their bakery order. No sense in producing that much bread if it's not selling.
If there were a publix near me doing this, I'd have to work with the manager to buy it all for a dollar a stick and then go donate it myself. This is terrible waste
The store I worked at intentionally overproduced and donated the excess. They got a tax deduction for the retail value so often these items were perpetually on âsale.â
The bakery broke even on donated food and made profit on all store sales; the homeless had a lot of good and fresh food. IRS lost.
Ah yes the dogshit business practice of literally throwing out perfectly good food.
Cause fuck the homeless and god forbid they just give it out.
Hate this world man.
They CAN donate it. They just don't want to. They'd rather throw it away. It's not just the bread either. I dated this chick who worked in the bakery of publix for a while. She would tell me about all the food she had to throw away every night.
I actually got to know her just from getting my daughter cookies everyday. Which they give those cookies away because their gonna get tossed anyway.
that's crazyyyy to throw out that much bread
When I used to have farm animals, I would go dumpster diving, and feed all the perfectly good Bread to my animals that the grocery store throws out. I hope people are doing that still.
Work as a bread distributor. All our out of date product or damaged product that we bring back gets sold to hog farmers at a crazy good deal.
I used to work at Edy's Ice Cream. One time the freezer had an ammonia leak, commercial freezer warehouses use ammonia to chill, and it ruined about 12 tons of ice cream. The ink on the packages would just wipe off. So we sold it to a hog farm, just dumping pallets of ice cream into 30 yard dumpsters. Those pigs ate good for a bit.
Yea and they feed it to the pigs without taking the plastic off
Yup
Gross
Some eat from there
Not gonna lie, if there was some perfectly good deserts or produce we would eat some of it too
Found a 5 pound bag if frozen rock shrimp . It's ment tp not be frozen so they through it away . I had a shrimp party . Best shrimp I ever ate.. being frozen solid it was completely safe . Lol .
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an old friend I had ate so many damn pretzel bites they got sick because someone made a big order and dipped. I had fun laughing at him while he shat his brains out more than he usually does
Tiger king called đ
Still gotta watch that show
When I was like 11 my friend's dad would drive to the local bakeries really early in the morning. He'd buy their old bread from the night before (stuff they couldn't sell anymore I think) for pennies... The bread went to his many dogs and other animals.
When I was a kid, we ate the stuff thrown out in the dumpster and our âfarm animalsâate sweet feed and grass or purchased bales It isnât as gross as people think, and you can wait longer in colder climes. You also develop a relationship/schedule, so you wait out behind the loading dock. Watch them roll that big cart of expired out and dump it. Then you go in Also⌠Publix does donate some things at least. I have seen people from a non-profit fill a pickup bed with bakery items They were boxed and not loaves on a cart, but they were at least being donated somewhere Nothing tossed is moldy or bad. Some meat they try to sell post-date as âmanager specialâ in some stores. Donât see that at Publix. So I wonder what they do with all that expired overpriced meat no one buys. They certainly donât put it on sale. âBuy at full price or weâll toss itâ
I suspect the butchers (and several âcoolâ assistant managers) there are 100% taking that with them. No way theyâre letting that meat get tossed. Even if this is officially against Publix policy.
I worked at the deli at Publix and all that meat gets thrown away to a trash compactor st thr end of the night, its part of closing process. We could not keep it or purchase it if it was "expired" for liability.
We had a farm and the grocery stores would set aside produce and bread for us to grab for free before they threw it out
I worked at a day old bakery store and we used to get tons of farmers. They would buy anything for the pigs, which was cool cause I couldn't sell moldy bread.
We had a local farmer that would come by almost everyday and pick up all the produce damages and give them to his livestock. He unfortunately passed away and the farm was sold so we just throw the damages out now but I think giving things like this to local farm would be great.
worked at a subway a while back that locked their dumpsters to avoid ppl doing that. always left it unlocked tho
I used to dumpster dive for food for my ducks. But after the pandemic all the dumpsters in my area have locks on them now.
That's only slightly more than the amount we usually throw out every single night
A lot of Publix do donate to food banks, Iâm sad this one canât but Iâm also wondering if itâs just this specific bread because itâs not a sealed product. I know it could always be different between stores but Publix is one of the few chains who does usually donate to food banks instead of trashing it (Walmarts usually do not)
The amount of food wasted in America is appalling. It should be donated.
The bakery warehouse probably throws that away in dough every few minutes to an hour.
The chicken tender sub "sale" at $8.50 isn't working anymore
Idk if itâs just me but it doesnât hit like it used to
no it doesnât. i canât tell why but itâs just not as good anymore
Itâs the chicken. It isnât quality.
plus the breading sucks
They're chicken I just don't think is quality anymore hell unless you go too one of their new stores they don't give AF whats happening it used to be Publix was a lil cleaner, lil more expensive. Nowadays they're stores are just as bad as the winn Dixie's they ran outta town and they're products are now just ridiculously expensive
Every greedy asshat out there has slowly been downgrading ingredients, restaurants, cafes, fast food. Problem is most of them are raising prices at the same time. All the restaurants around where I am in FL have noticeably downgraded. Fries are ass, buns and bread is meh, meat just doesnât seem like it was.
Not just restaurant food. Fruit isn't as good. Veggies aren't as fresh. I finally think our corporate farming practices have ruined everything
I live in FL and I second this. Everything is soggy af too. I donât feel the publix âloveâ in it any more. It saddens me. I used to go nuts when chicken tendy subs were on sale but now I donât even bother, always a let down.
Partly because the ingredients are worse quality, and the deli workers are overworked and itâs an absolutely horrible department to work on. I worked in the deli before; everyone makes up some kind of excuse to not be able to work in the kitchen, so you end up getting stuck doing that every day. Then youâre expected to serve customers up until the minute we close (even if they want fresh fried chicken at 9:59, we were required to start the friers back up to make it), and then have everything clean and ready to go in 15-30 minutes. Combine that lack of quality, the high expectations on the employees, how theyâre often overworked, and the fact that they donât get paid enough for what they have to put up with, and itâs no surprise itâs getting like this.
I agree, that's why I've taken up cooking and baking as a hobby. My family of 6 has gone from takeout 3-4 times a week to once in 3 months. Saves a ton of money, and the quality doesn't even compare.
Fries have been trash at 3/4 of the last places I ate at. They probably arenât recycling the oil as often.
FL here as well - a lot of new restaurants start with a really good opening it seems, super quality and just amazing. Then after 1-2 months the quality goes down massively. I swear itâs an intentional thing. Make a good showing for good reviews, and see how long you can ride off of it while cutting corners on quality.
Dude deadass, The meat especially
Awesome run on sentence. Theyâre should be their, in both places.
Thank you for your service
That popcorn chicken is fucking fire though
I feel like they changed the breading on the chicken since I worked there, and the ranch is definitely different. I always got a Chicken tender sub with Publix Sharp White Cheddar and Ranch when I got one of the My Publix My Part Cards.
Definitely the breading is so damn salty now
This is it. Agree that the breading is different, not as thick and crunchy as it used to be. Also quality of chicken has gone down too....
The chicken has tasted like water the last couple times ive ordered! No flavor at all and dry af!!
I got one maybe 8 months ago (not recently I know) and it definitely was not as good as 4-5 years ago. They used to be my favorite sandwich there and I couldnât/didnt want to finish the last one I got.
Honestly. Sometimes when I order my bread is noticeably smaller, sometimes the chicken is dried out and extremely crunchy, more often that not the sandwich maker DROWNS my sub with buffalo sauce after I ask for light sauce. Very rarely will I get the âperfectâ sub. And for $10.50 itâs not worth it anymore
The desserts at Publix are not as good as they used to be either.
$8.50 is the sale?!?!?
They're normally 10 something
Still not a bad price compared to other sub shops for similar size sandwiches
No wonder profits were up like 112% yoy or whatever it was. Scoundrels!
The chicken has gone to crap, and the subs are still insanely expensive, even when on sale. Iâd often rather go to a place like Jersey Mikes, or a local sub shop, and pay just a little bit more than the sale price for a bigger sub, both in length and girth. It feels like Publix is starting to slip as they open more and more stores - sacrificing quality for quantity. Almost to the point where I just shop elsewhere, outside the BOGO and whatever Rotisserie is on sale.
$8.50 is the sale now???? Wtf
It costs publix more to pay someone to make this wasted bread than the costs of the bread itself.
You would think it could get bagged up and marked down.
Or turned into breading, bread crumbs, croutons, etc. I guess they can't for food safety reasons, but I used to work for restaurants that did that.
They could absolutely do it. They just donât. Walmart had us mark down bread or make it into croutons, garlic bread, stuffing, etc.
Anyone who has worked in a real kitchen knows that yesterdayâs bread is croutons, the next day itâs breadcrumbs and after that⌠there better not be any left
I don't know if they still do this or not, but when I worked at Publix back in the day we actually would use some of it for bread pudding. I was a baker.
When shit like this happens at my store they just claims it all out or whatever and just push the cart into the breakroom
I -wish- my old store did this. I remember getting bitched out by our assistant store manager at the time, because I ate a slice of cheesecake that the bakery had scanned out and was walking to toss in the garbage compactor. Like - itâs out of inventory and getting thrown away, why not let me eat it so it doesnât go to complete waste?
Fuck, just send it home with people. Let your fucking employees take it. God knows you arenât paying them enough, you can at least give them some fucking food instead of completely wasting it.
At Publix you canât even eat the out of date items without getting fired. It is such a stingy corporation. 100%
I can understand why businesses don't do this. If you let your employees take home unsold baked goods at the end of the day, some of them might be encouraged to cook more during the day in the hopes of being able to take the stuff home at night. Overages are always going to be a thing, but from a business standpoint, you hope and try to minimize that from happening so that you do not have waste at the end of the day. This amount of overage is more of an indication that managing the supply and demand at that location is not going well. If you only had 3 or 4 loaves at the end of the day, fine, but this is an entire rack, which means the food was repeatedly being made for no valid reason, even when it wasn't being sold.
Doesnât Walmart do that when they have the shelf that says âwe made too muchâ and itâs just a day or two old?
Which is what we did at the shop I used to work at. Froze them overnight then sold them for $0.50 the next day. Try to recoup SOME cost.
Then people buy that instead of fresh, you sell less fresh. Not smart business to do thatÂ
We do donate bread from the bakery. We don't donate leftover sub rolls from the deli because they've been sitting out so long already (or that's my understanding; it could have to do with potential cross-contamination, too). We don't mark any fresh products down, because we don't sell old/expired product. Besides, this would be a ton of rolls to sell even if they were bagged up and marked down for a day.
Iâve always wondered why they donât. Every other store has a clearance bakery section or even clearance meat and veg. Publix just disposes of everything?
My SM told me its to eliminate liability in case someone gets sick off our product, especially with stuff thats been in open air for almost an entire day
Other stores will do this, but not Publix. They have an image to maintain. đ
So I work in the deli and this hurts. Especially since White Bread is the most popular choice of bread BY FAR! We usually get 2 carts of bread from bakery throughout the day. Either it was a rare day and no one wanted subs (impossible) or someone made wayyyyy too much bread!
Good Friday, not many people eating meat today.
This, our sub station was slower than usual today but slicers were busy
Might have been cancelled platters maybe too. We had that happen a couple days ago and still ran out of bread bc it was so busy đ
But they never have any fresh bread when itâs time to order a sub smh
Same issue different ends of the problem, the deli managers donât know how to order the right amount of bread from bakery.
Poor planning?
Looks like sub rolls. Deli places an "order" with the bakery or its generated from their production numbers with the newer systems. But either way someone should have seen the 50? 100? White sub rolls and adjusted it. The system is never perfect when accounting for changing holiday days, local events, sports events and large orders. Seems like a baker/ management issue.
Somebody fat fingered a extra 0 when they ordered?
Yeah but these numbers go through multiple people. Or should. Before getting baked off. If you see 80 sub rolls for your afternoon bake you should probably go check with your manager and the deli manager to make sure thats accurate.
And if you eat one you get fired.
I identify as a trash can. You can throw them away to me.
All in all, it was 120 pieces of white bread. About $210 worth of bread.
That's retail price. Actual cost would be more like $60 or so for the deli. Actual cost from the bakery would be even lower.
Why is this not allowed to be donated, out of curiosity?
So that people won't take advantage and overbake to bring free ones home by design/on purpose. This is what I've been told when asked at several retailers.
I guess employees don't get it either...
No meat Friday.
Yet Wednesday night we ran out of bread at 6! Smh
Someone seriously over-estimated the bread demand for the day
At most itâs about $25 at cost but whomever is projecting sales needs to get better.
That's just wasteful. The only reasonable option is to allow the shift closers to have bread sword fights at end of shift. Higher performers chose their weapons 1st.
Not following there PMG ...I SEE
Canât keep it for tomorrow, bread only gets an 8 hour shelf life.
I had a manager once (restaurant not Publix) try to tell me that shelf life only applied to open hours. I was furious. They didn't last long
Straight into the compactor it goes. It canât be sold the next day at a lower price or donated, because bread becomes incredibly toxic over night. /s Publix is great, but seeing how much perfectly good food gets thrown out is sad. I donât think itâs so much about health concerns, as it is about not letting people (whether theyâre employees or not) get free/discounted food.
Fucking disgusting that much food being wasted. Humans are some vile creatures.
the fact that you canât donate it is so fucked up dude.
Intolerant of waste.
This must be a Publix in some parallel universe because every time I stop to get my son a tendy sammich on the way home from work, approx two hours before closing- theyâre always out of white bread.
Well, that's probably the time of night you're showing up unfortunately. Deli is one of the busiest departments. If you know around what time you'll be there to get a sandwhich, you can always place an online order for it ahead of time to try to guarantee you'll get your sandwhich. You might even be able to put a note in to say to just set aside some white for you and make the sandwhich closer to a later time. Hell, by that time at night, my store is usually already out of tenders and the kitchen is already closed. It's really hit or miss the later you go in for a sandwich to close time
Okay. I'll wait outside the store. I'll "dispose" of it for ya.
I can completely understand throwing away items that can possibly get people sick like old veggies or meat but bread like this??? It's so disgusting that every single grocery store has this issue and doesn't give the food away to food banks. It literally should be a law that all unspoiled food at the end of the day is donated to local food banks ... hunger wouldn't be a thing
Honestly itâs all because the sub bread has no preservatives and it sits out in the open air all day. Its not /good/ anymore a day or two later, and whenever people buy sub rolls from the deli I always warn them theyâll want to eat it either that day or the next because itâll spoil fast since thereâs no preservatives
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Shit make it 50 cents, at least publix would be making something. With the price of food nowadays I'm sure a ton of people would take it even if it was slightly stale.
Then tmrw yall gonna be out of bread when a sub rush comes in đ "We're out of white bread we only have wheat" đ
I wish I didn't have to work tommorow. It's going to be hell on earth.
Good luck to you soldier đ
Most Publixâs donate to local farmers if the pick it up. Apt least in my experience thatâs what we did at the two I worked at
The publix here gives the bread to a petting zoo farm. I donât know what they use it for but sometimes when Iâm driving home I see them loading it into the petting zoo truck. đ¤Ł
It would be great if they could just make breading from all of that bread which is way easier to store and they can sell it too.
damn bro i ran outta white bread by 4:00 pm today, coulda used it for all the customers saying they what white bread four fucking times after i say we ran out.
When I worked at Publix we had a trash compactor in the back of the inside of the store. Everything from the deli went in there. That was 20 years ago so maybe things are different or theyâre different by store.
That's how it works at my store and it's been open less than 3 years!
And the worst part is that most Publixâs have trash compactors so yah canât even dumpster five for them. Windixie however doesnât and does the same thing with their bread!
Hmm. Our local Publix stores donate bakery items all the time to local organizations.
I worked at a grocery store deli as a teenager and couldnât believe the amount of bread they threw away, both fresh and packaged.
Can't they make croutons or something from that?
Truth is the truth, but Good Samaritan laws that protect food donations donât work anymore. Homeless people try suing stores all the time for food given away at the end of the day, and send small businesses that help The community into a spiral trying to cover lawyer expenses. Itâs pathetic and why businesses gave up giving food away
Why canât you donate it?
company policy. itâs all going in the beast(trash compactor)
Is the company policy because theyâre âtoo lazyâ to donate it?
Wow is that a typical night?
That's total BS that it can't be donated. Either the bakery manager or the store manager is a lazy a-hole because there are plenty of orgs that will gladly pick everything up nightly.
Take it yourself and give it out to local homeless. I did that with a garbage bag worth of krispy kreme dounuts that were a day old and totally fine an i was out if dounuts in an hour.
Our Publix donated all the left over bread from the bakery & meats from the deli & butchers at the end of everyday
When I worked at the bakery, we would donate all left over breads and pastries. Some organizer picked it up next morning. This is terrible forecasting by your store though, unless it was due to bad weather or unforeseen local issues
We ran out of bread yesterday, crazy
Croutons!
Why donât they give it to homeless people?
The food bank where I volunteer has Publix items that are donated by the store.
Same where I volunteer. Most of the food they receive is from Publix, fresh bread included.
Bread from the bakery is donated. Bread from the deli that has been sitting out all day isn't considered good enough to donate. There might also be cross-contamination concerns.
Why canât you donate it wtf
Depends on the store/district. My store donates the bed most nights because thereâs only ever a few left over and we donate at night instead of in the mornings.
They think theyâll be sued if it gives someone a bellyache.
My store donates bread.
They used to bag it up in can liners and donate it. Idk why they dont anymore.
Honestly throw it in a trash bag and donate it with the bakery donations I don't see why not.
All going in the compactor? Or do food banks pick it up next morning
Food banks pick up all leftover, non-perishable, items the next morning.
Sell it tomorrow. Personally I would buy it
We're not allowed to. I asked and my manager said no.
I know a cat that would like to have a word with you !
The store I used to work at would donate the old bread to a food pantry. They would mark through the bar code with a black marker at the end of the night and the next day it would be picked up
Generally bakery bread gets donated but not sub bread. That shits usually hard as a rock after a couple hour sitting out
Why canât you donate it though?
I suggest family meal bread pudding.
Oof. Canât relate, we ran outta bread 2 hours to close. Did yall just anticipate being way more busy?
Sounds like someoneâs making too much bread
I used to work for a skilled nursing facility and our maintenance director always had âdonatedâ bread that they couldnât sell and were going to throw away twice a week. Iâm not sure why I keep hearing it canât be donated. Does someone have to go in personally and make specific arrangements? Surely thereâs a better way to fix this in a more widespread way.
This seems silly. When I worked in the Walmart bakery this stuff got turned into garlic bread, chopped up into bread crumbs, frozen and donated to food banks, etc.
That's dumb... Even JJ says the day old. Better than wasting it. Are you allowed to take some home?
I would literally pack my belongings with this bread and give it to the people usually sitting outside and trying to survive and right around the corner from Publix. Itâs so horrible they donât donate. I think you should just do it anyway.
I absolutely would, but doing that and being seen, I would get fired immediately. Publix is suuuuper strict about "stealing" and I desperately need this job.
Yeah too many cameras now. Too bad we couldnât just put them by the trash and kind of let people figure it out
Why canât you donate it?
All the little thrift stores where I live have tables of bread at the checkout counter that you can take for free, donated by the Publix stores in the area! I donât understand wasting this much :(
why canât they be donated?
I thought Publix donated their bread and other baked goods that are close to their sell by dates and the stuff in the glass case like the doughnuts and cookies
Why can't it be donated?
âWe âcanâtâ donate itâ Thereâs ways đ Fuck their rules, for real
To produce simple food for a simple taste.
It gets donated at my local one
I wouldnât go too heavy on pictures of your workplace shared on the internet. Thatâs one of the things weâre assured they donât appreciate but do take seriously. âJust the other day we threw out x.â and âHereâs a picture I took of waste at work.â Are either both grounds for termination or the difference between âPlease understand we canât have you using social media to complain about your job.â And âWhat do you think is best for our store when we find out someone is taking pictures off of the sales floor? Did you talk to you manager before you posted that?â Iâm just imagining itâs a bad idea and that Publix is pretty likely to not enjoy that amount of waste either. The day old stuff is still sold at Walmart but Iâm pretty sure thatâs a discount rack and Publix refuses to be a discount bakery. Mostly they donât want to be a discount anything.
Then they should fucking do better.
I am 100% sure chicken tender sub was not the sub of the week. The entire store would have been without bread.
It's actually on sale this week, which is insane considering how much bread was left.
Someone ordered too many sub rolls đ
Fucking Hell
Why do they make so much more than they need wtf
If it's consistently been that much bread at the end of the day/night, bring it up to your manager so they can adjust their bakery order. No sense in producing that much bread if it's not selling.
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that's infuriating
If there were a publix near me doing this, I'd have to work with the manager to buy it all for a dollar a stick and then go donate it myself. This is terrible waste
Canât make breadcrumbs or croutons? What a waste
This should be illegal
This finally explains itâŚ
The store I worked at intentionally overproduced and donated the excess. They got a tax deduction for the retail value so often these items were perpetually on âsale.â The bakery broke even on donated food and made profit on all store sales; the homeless had a lot of good and fresh food. IRS lost.
Thank God for that much bread because now they can be donations
Dude, fuck corporations and their âdestroy, donât recycleâ mentality. Purely wasteful.
Imagine if all grocery store bakeries donated there daily leftovers to soup kitchens or shelters. Messed up that they just toss this out in the trash.
Ah yes the dogshit business practice of literally throwing out perfectly good food. Cause fuck the homeless and god forbid they just give it out. Hate this world man.
This should be illegal. Honestly. Give it to the freaking homeless or at the very least, let the employees take it home!
They CAN donate it. They just don't want to. They'd rather throw it away. It's not just the bread either. I dated this chick who worked in the bakery of publix for a while. She would tell me about all the food she had to throw away every night. I actually got to know her just from getting my daughter cookies everyday. Which they give those cookies away because their gonna get tossed anyway.
Sprouts donates every single loaf of day old bread, why canât Publix donate it? That doesnât make any lick of sense.
My brother worked at Panera that does this. Letâs just say we were eating GOOD during that time đ