foragers outwit cops guarding massive amount of food tossed due to storm (by out waiting them)

[Demovictory9]

Updated Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2021.

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Roughly a dozen Portland police officers faced off with a small group at a Northeast Portland Fred Meyer on Tuesday after people tried to take food that had been thrown away.

Workers at the Hollywood West Fred Meyer threw away thousands of perishable items because the store, like many others, had lost power in an outage brought on by the region’s winter storm.

Images on social media showed mountains of packaged meat, cheese and juice, as well as whole turkeys and racks of ribs that had been tossed into two large dumpsters near the store.


A few people gathered about 2:30 p.m. at the store, 3030 N.E. Weidler St., in hopes of salvaging the food.

But within a few hours, people seeking food from the dumpsters began to report police officers showing up to guard the dumpsters and prevent people from taking the items.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/02/portland-police-guard-dumpster-face-off-with-residents-trying-to-get-discarded-food-from-fred-meyer.html

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. PrOtEcTiNg AnD sErViNg

[ret5hd]

2. Sounds to me like this is part insurance scam...

part “real”...

What better time/way to get rid of those pesky slow moving/overstock items than a situation like this?

[Jeebo]

3. The store should have just given it all away.

That would have been great for public relations.

Or, they could have had a sale:

"POWER OUTAGE PERISHABLES SALE! 90% OFF EVERY PERISHABLE IN THE STORE FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS!"

That would have been good public relations too, and they would have recouped SOME of their losses.

Not to mention the humanitarian objective of helping to feed hungry people and poor people.

-- Ron

[gladium et scutum]

7. maybe good PR

up to the time someone became sick from eating it. Then the lawyers will be lining up to sue Fred Meyers for millions.

[bullwinkle428]

4. What the fuck kind of country are we living in, where cops are dispatched

to make sure that people can't access perfectly edible food that someone has chosen to go to waste?

[TomSlick]

5. WHY did the cops care that people were salvaging food from a dumpster?

It feeds folks and keeps the food out of the landfill - win/win.

What am I missing?

[dhill926]

6. "Let them eat Cake" quote cracked me up...

so Portland...