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Arkansas Granny

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8. Do I have this right? Amazon has donated a building for the use of this shelter and

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Thu May 24, 2018, 05:33 AM

May 2018

is donating large quantities of fresh food at the end of the day. The shelter says that they are receiving so much food that they don't have enough refrigerator space for it so some of the food has to be discarded, including a portion that is of questionable quality.

Surely a solution is lurking in here somewhere instead of complaining about Amazon's generosity.

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"We'd Spend Hours Each Week Unpacking & Throwing the Food Away" donated from Amazon [View all] Demovictory9 May 2018 OP

Amazon must be writing this off as a tax break The_Casual_Observer May 2018 #1

full retail price for garbage tax break. WhiteTara May 2018 #15

Starting to believe Bezos may be flat out evil. Period. 7wo7rees May 2018 #2

So they have donated the facility and way more food than is even needed Lee-Lee May 2018 #13

How is this evil? mcar May 2018 #19

Asshole is donating more food than they can handle. NCTraveler May 2018 #25

I think you might be letting some sort of bias cloud your view mythology May 2018 #28

He is a dick, but not for this. Iggo May 2018 #31

good grief. How simple would it be for Amazon to label and track the food for the pantries???? It riversedge May 2018 #3

Pre made packaged sandwiches are required to have dates on them elehhhhna May 2018 #26

Sounds like a need for fine tuning rather than condemnation dembotoz May 2018 #4

no good deed goes unpunished nt msongs May 2018 #5

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. LisaL May 2018 #6

Sure atreides1 May 2018 #7

The article doesn't actually say the food was spoiled. Voltaire2 May 2018 #9

Is your use of reductio ad absurdum purposeful LanternWaste May 2018 #33

Do I have this right? Amazon has donated a building for the use of this shelter and Arkansas Granny May 2018 #8

Yes! joshdawg May 2018 #10

How difficult would it be to contact Sherman A1 May 2018 #12

That was my first thought... Phentex May 2018 #22

Sounds like they need a larger walk-in cooler. They should get some bids and crowdfund for it. n/t FSogol May 2018 #18

Seems like a good problem to have mcar May 2018 #20

As the saying goes GusBob May 2018 #23

not just one building NewJeffCT May 2018 #24

can't they let them know ahead of time how much food there would be ? JI7 May 2018 #11

"Oh, Lord, I need a car. Please, please, please. Amen." Buns_of_Fire May 2018 #14

I see two issues gollygee May 2018 #16

It sounds more like a communications problem than something MineralMan May 2018 #17

Could Amazon donate a small used van? lpbk2713 May 2018 #21

They could also donate more refrigerators, as that seems to be part of the problem. gollygee May 2018 #27

I'm going to guess that by the end of the day they will have done just that Beaverhausen May 2018 #29

Probably gollygee May 2018 #30

It is not unlike the problems caused when people donate inappropriate Grammy23 May 2018 #34

And they could also keep better track of how long the food has been un-refrigerated. Iggo May 2018 #32

An Article by The NY Times describes Amazon's Leighbythesea May 2018 #35