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Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

The reason the soda is tossed is because each item would have to be cleaned and inspected (for expiration date) before donating it. It would actually cost the manufacturer. Not worth it, considering they'd still be liable.


Hard to understand how something vacuum sealed inside an aluminum can could have expiration, spoilage or contamination issues.

As for cleaning the cans, whoever it was donated to could rinse them off.

Certainly if it can be done with boxes of cookies and crackers...

Buncha corporate weenie jerks.
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I think soda loses carbonation or flavor or something. I know diet soda has a much shorter shelf life.

But there's all sorts of rules re donations of food. I don't even think they're draconian, but maybe some companies just don't wanna take the chance.

I remember in SF, homeless advocates challenging the McDonalds across from Golden Gate Park re their refusal to let homeless people have their leftover food. It was because they got sued! Some homeless person supposedly got sick and sued McDonalds. The company decided it just wasn't worth it.

Like Judge People's Court says, no good deed goes unpunished.

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Yes, soda like anything else, will eventually go bad if you keep it long enough and depending on the conditions, like heat, humidity, etc.

But it takes a loooooooong time.

And it doesn't actually become unsafe to consume.

Like you said, it loses it's fizz and maybe doesn't taste as good.

It doesn't even have an expiration or use by date, but rather a "best by" date. But even that isn't cast in stone.

You can probably still enjoy it months or even over a year afterward.

It's just a waste no matter how they try to justify it.

I hope they at least drain the cans and bottles and recycle the aluminum and plastic.

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Beer can become skunky, so maybe soda can as well?
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Originally posted by MustangMarj MustangMarj wrote:

Beer can become skunky, so maybe soda can as well?


So you're saying that if someone has a can of Billy Beer in their refrigerator, they probably shouldn't drink it?

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Probably. I haven't had a beer in 30 years, so maybe I wouldn't even know the beer was indeed skunky! 😁
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I started drinking beer one night a week about a year or so ago.

Saturday nights I get a 4 pack of 16 oz cans of something called "Steel Reserve".

It's a "high gravity" lager whatever that means.



But it's got 8.1% alcohol, so I can't even drink all four of them.

Two maybe three and I get a nice buzz.

Save the rest for next Saturday.

I think there's a brand that has 8.8% alcohol.

Like Marj, I hadn't had a beer in about 30 years.

Figured "What the hell?"
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Walking the dogs around the neighbourhood recently and what do I see? Freaking Halloween decorations. People, it is mid-August! Halloween is not for another two months! Just because stores already have Halloween decorations on display doesn't mean you need to put yours out!
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Jimbo - when I was a teenager, we would have an older person buy us kids beer called Old Stock - then we would sit on the banks of the river drinking beer through a straw to get really drunk! Hah! Kids these days don't know what they are missing!
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Originally posted by MustangMarj MustangMarj wrote:

Walking the dogs around the neighbourhood recently and what do I see? Freaking Halloween decorations. People, it is mid-August! Halloween is not for another two months! Just because stores already have Halloween decorations on display doesn't mean you need to put yours out!

That's too early.
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Originally posted by MustangMarj MustangMarj wrote:

Walking the dogs around the neighbourhood recently and what do I see? Freaking Halloween decorations. People, it is mid-August! Halloween is not for another two months! Just because stores already have Halloween decorations on display doesn't mean you need to put yours out!


Some people live for holidays. Those same people will have their Christmas lights up before Thanksgiving.

Walmart has an entire department called "Seasonal". The shelves in that department need to be constantly filled so as not to look like the Soviet Union circa 1960. That's why, in stores, one holiday runs into the next (money-spending holidays, that is). That doesn't mean we have to follow suit.


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I just get pissed seeing Halloween sh*t mid-August! It is still summer people! Until I get to bring out my long sleeved sweaters and jeans, it is still freaking summer!
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Originally posted by MustangMarj MustangMarj wrote:

I just get pissed seeing Halloween sh*t mid-August! It is still summer people! Until I get to bring out my long sleeved sweaters and jeans, it is still freaking summer!


There are several groups on Facebook dedicated to Halloween (and probably every other holiday) where people boast about their fanatical devotion to it.

Some people claim that they leave their decorations up all year.

They post memes to that effect as well.



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^^ I feel holidays are running into one another - Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are now just a blur in my mind!
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^ Working in retail, I get that really bad. "Back to school" starts in June, Halloween in July, Christmas in August, etc.

This year, it's especially bad. Since the supply chain started clearing out in June, we've been getting what should have been last year's Christmas gifts, mainly toys, which we have clogging our aisles on sale at 25-75% off.

News articles say we can expect this "inventorry glut" for several quarters. We actually had to rent 20 trailers to accomodate all this garbage.



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Originally posted by MustangMarj MustangMarj wrote:

^^ I feel holidays are running into one another - Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are now just a blur in my mind!


Pretty much the same with me.

I call October through New Year's Day "the festive season".

Still my favorite time of year though.

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

^ Working in retail, I get that really bad. "Back to school" starts in June, Halloween in July, Christmas in August, etc.


Around here it's not quite that bad.

Halloween stuff starts hitting the shelves in some stores (Dollar Tree mainly) in August. Christmas stuff might start showing up in October.
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Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:


Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

^ Working in retail, I get that really bad. "Back to school" starts in June, Halloween in July, Christmas in August, etc.


Around here it's not quite that bad.

Halloween stuff starts hitting the shelves in some stores (Dollar Tree mainly) in August. Christmas stuff might start showing up in October.


What I meant was that, if you're actually working in retail, you see that the holiday stuff starts coming in weeks before the buying public sees it on the shelves.

We actually started getting Christmas stuff in last month.

I always like to say that, by Halloween, I'm sick of Christmas.

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Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

What I meant was that, if you're actually working in retail, you see that the holiday stuff starts coming in weeks before the buying public sees it on the shelves.

We actually started getting Christmas stuff in last month.

I always like to say that, by Halloween, I'm sick of Christmas.


Ah.

You weren't very clear on that.

But re: working in retail, I did a good bit of that back in the late 70's while I was in college.

Montgomery Ward, JC Penney and Sears, all three, and in that order.

One year at Penny's, I transferred into the receiving dept in October.

The Christmas stuff was coming in heavy by then.

I remember this one trailer we unloaded that was literally packed from front to back and floor to ceiling with bicycles.

Still in the box, mostly unassembled of course.



The boxes were laying flat and packed in so tightly you couldn't have slipped a credit card between them.

And they came right up to the back doors of the trailer.

We really busted our asses on that one.

Come November, most of the merchandise was in, so they put me in a little room where I was in charge of assembling all the lay away bikes.

I must've assembled a couple of hundred bikes in two or three weeks.

Did a few repairs, too.

That was actually kind of fun.

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Ahh, yes. We had an assembly department...mainly for bikes, but also grills and some other stuff. It was manned by Eugene, a Vietnam vet, and John, a mechanic whose diabetes prevented him from being on his feet (his bones break easily) and was able to sit while he assembled bikes. Both good guys.

Now we have some third-party foreigners come in to do the assembly. They really churn 'em out, with varied results.

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Thor, you are to be commended for working retail! Retail has to be one of the tougher jobs to handle.
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Thanks, Marj. It's one of the tougher jobs I've ever had (most were white or gray collar office jobs). But I like that I'm not sitting at a desk. I specifically did not want that.

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Originally posted by MustangMarj MustangMarj wrote:

Thor, you are to be commended for working retail! Retail has to be one of the tougher jobs to handle.


What about me?????

I worked in retail for three years!!!

Of course that was in the late 70's and early 80's when I was in my early 20's, but still....

Why don't I deserve to be commended too????

It's not fair!!!!

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Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

Thanks, Marj. It's one of the tougher jobs I've ever had

Wuss.
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Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

Thanks, Marj. It's one of the tougher jobs I've ever had

Wuss.


It really is, though. And it's not even the actual work. It's the mass of obstacles, physical and otherwise, that get in the way of getting the work done.

Get this:
My first day on the job, I got written up because one of the assistant managers was f*cking the girl in customer service that another of the assistant managers was cheating on his girlfriend with.




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Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

It really is, though. And it's not even the actual work. It's the mass of obstacles, physical and otherwise, that get in the way of getting the work done.


Oh, the stories I could tell about the summer of '77 when I was "the warehouse guy/forklift driver" at the Sea Ray boat plant in Merritt Island, Fl.

Blistering hot outside, no a/c in the plant area of course, much of the job was performed outside hefting heavy stuff around in the blazing sun and the "warehouse" area was a much too small section of the R&D building in which I'd have to do things like...

...dig through huge stacks of 4'x 8' sheets of plywood with a forklift to get one or two sheets off of a stack in the back, then re-stack them...

...and unstack two, three or four ceiling high stacked "towers" of 454 cubic inch Ford "Mercruiser" inboard engines that were defective, just to get to the (hopefully) good ones behind them, then re-stack them before delivering the new ones to the engine test dept.

And of course, as often as not, at least one of the pair of new ones I pulled was bad too, which required me to repeat the process all over again.

Imagine the scene in the picture below, but instead of two high, they're stacked about six or eight high. Defective ones in front, untested and hopefully good ones behind them in back.



All while the rest of the plant was still waiting for their stuff to be delivered.

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My first day on the job, I got written up because one of the assistant managers was f*cking the girl in customer service that another of the assistant managers was cheating on his girlfriend with.


So, how did that get you written up?

Refused to take part in a threesome or foursome?

Refused to be the video cam operator? 🤔




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