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Here is the anti-story to the above:
Back when I was in school I needed a handful of 35mm film canisters for some damn fool project or another. I don't remember exactly what I was planning to use them for. So I went to the local camera store and asked the clerk there if I could just buy like 20 or 30 empty film canisters figuring they'd have a fair few lying around. This was, of course, in the days when 35mm film was still the predominant photography standard, and consumer grade digital cameras that could even achieve one real world megapixel were very new, very exciting, and very expensive.
Apparently I was right, because they guy said, "Good god, please take some" and gave me an entire shopping bag full of the damn things. For free. Apparently just to be rid of them.
I was using film canisters to store everything and anything for years after that.
Same thing applies to cardboard boxes at the liquor store. Most retailers have plenty of strong boxes and the clerks hate having to break them down for the trashman.
I used to store quarters for the laundromat in empty film canisters.
Awww nostalgia! I remember those containers, we would fight over them in my family. Funny how now they've disappeared and I'm not even sure what replaced them (as miscellaneous containers)
That's awesome!
I did get a small bit of pork lard from another store today, but they basically told me it was a one time thing. I was definitely hoping it would be free since it's otherwise garbage, but I also wasn't surprised that they charged a small fee for it. But then again, it's a national chain, not some small, local shop. The "no code = trash" store is also a national chain, so I'm a little surprised by the differences.
Another factor to add is that major retailers use anything they throw away as a tax write-off "loss" and they are therefore extremely cagey about giving any of it away for any reason, even to employees, I guess because if this is found out it could have some kind of implications, I dunno.
My nephew works for Target and apparently they do this. He tells me a manager will stand there and watch them crushing perfectly good floor model TV's and other electronics in the trash compactor so he can sign off that they did it and none of those items were used for any beneficial purpose whatsoever, because weaseling out of $0.02 in taxes is apparently more worthwhile to corporate than giving a dedicated employee a new but slightly scuffed TV they were going to throw away anyway.
It's positively infuriating. I'm sure the perishable goods/food sector is even worse.
Giving these items to employees could be considered part of their compensation package, like gift cards. Those have to be appropriately recorded and taxed.
FWIW, a lot of these places now send damaged/surplus/whatever items to a salvage company, who then pays the original retailer "fire sale" prices. These items are usually auctioned off locally for a fraction of MSRP.
Same for many returned items, BTW. There's a local auction site that runs like eBay, but it's overwhelmingly Amazon returns.