I know someone whose son occasionally goes to the "DUNKIN DONUTS" at certain late hours and gets boxes on donuts before they would have been tossed into the dumpster.......according to "law" I guess, if they donate and someone gets "sick" there could be a gigantic law suit.
My daughter once (for about a week) worked at a distribution center for Mernard's...same thing there with returns.....dumped. Granted some things were broken, pieces missing but many things were just returned because customer decided did not want and into the dumpster it goes....and employees are not allowed to take anything home...all must be destroyed.....see how wasteful we are!!!!!!!!!