Throwing Away Wrapped Packaged Food, Not Donating To Hungry Or Needy!?! Why Not?  

That is just awful! What a waste is right. That is horrible, what goes around comes around, you know? I don't know why they couldn't send it back to Gerber or something or just put it in the dumpster area so someone could get it. That is sad, I know there are so many starving people in the world, let alone the United States. There will come a day when we will not have the luxury to throw away food. It will I just know it. This society is a very wasteful one with priorities in the wrong places.

With every thing being getting simenola and all that ya realy cant blame walmart for doing this.
They just have no way to tell really if a needle or something had been poked into it now they probably threw it out in there trash and some homeless person will get it.
But I figure that they dont want to be sued for selling already sold food, no matter if ya told them it hadnt been touched!

It's the kind of world where sickos have contaminated food in supermarkets in order to sicken or kill random strangers. It's the kind of world where our food needs to be temper proof or we won't buy it. It's the kind of world where even with the temper proof stuff still in place somebody in the convenience of their home can find a way to still inject poison into the food or find another way to spoil it to make the child sick (storing it out in the heat will do it for this type of food btw, won't break the seals but spoil the food inside). It's the kind of world where the supermarket will be sued for millions, if somebody gets sick because a contaminated product is on their shelves and they didn't catch it.

Yes, it's a waste and not only happens to baby food but it's supposed to happen to any food item you return, no matter how unopened the box and otherwise completely sealed the container may be. Even if they hand it on to a food bank, they would still be liable. Stores won't take that risk. There is millions at stake. Can you imagine the jury waiting to 'stick it' to places like Walmart and award millions? That's the problem in our lawsuit happy society. That's the problem if you have sickos around who think it's fun to do stuff like that to people.

Next time, knowing this will happen, take it to the food bank. Maybe they are not as strict. We dropped our baby food (jars, later the microwave dinners) into our church food pantry donation box, when our kids outgrew it and we still had some left in the pantry. We were never told that they don't take it. I don't return any food item to the store unless it's visibly spoiled and nobody could eat it anyway. Everything else goes into the donation box.

I do understand your anger and being upset. I also find it a waste especially when there are so many that go without food or very little food. It is not because the country is so rich that we can just throw away food like that it is because of all those horrible people out there who do bad things to food and try to harm others, it is just a trust issue I guess. There have been too many horror stories out there about something in foods even the packaged foods. I see that it is just easier to buy new and give the other away to someone who can use it.

Isn't the whole point of tamper-proof packaging to prevent something like this from happening? I could understand it if you'd opened the packages, or even if it had been a while since you'd purchased them, but less than 24 hours later? That's ridiculous. At least now I now if I buy food at WalMart that we don't need, to just donate it to my church or local food bank (even though then I still have to pay for the replacements)...because I can't justify that extent of wastefulness. It's sad that our country is so untrusting of people that they feel it necessary to go to those lengths.

I do not know if it is just Wal Mart, or if it is all stores. I have not asked. I just never have food to return. It is an indication that we have too many law suit happy people who would choose to try to make a buck by sueing a multi million dollar company, not realizing that they are hurting all of us. I know that a billion years ago, when I worked at Wal Mart, the Humane Society criticized how they cared for the live animals and in retribution Wal Mart quit giving the damaged food to the Humane Society. I found that hateful. They also deliberately damaged returned clothes before throwing it out, because they said that otherwise people scavenged it from the dump and tried to return it for cash. Again, cheating causes people to lose out, and it is not the cheaters.

I would check with WalMart's manager to see if what they did was actually the right thing to do. They might have done that unnecessarily. If something is returned still vacuum sealed, I cannot see any valid reason to destroy it. It that's they're policy, then if I were you, I would NEVER return any item, but would instead either sell it online or give it away through FreeCycle rather than have it destroyed for no reason. I can understand if they tossed opened caselots - they might not be able to determine if they were tampered or not. But, a case that is still shrinkwrapped is evidently NOT opened and still shelf-ready!! The manager might not know they are doing this.

When i was little my mum made us sit at the table and eat what was put in front of us, if we didn't like it, well too bad. In the end we usually ate it because there was nothing else, we knew if we didn't, we would go hungry. We all grew up to like all food groups and we don't have any dislikes.

It's sad that you have to go out and buy different food for your child than the rest of the family eats. Unless she has an allergy i would try to incorporate your cooking into her meals, otherwise she will grow up being a picky eater. That's what happened to my cousin, and her mum could never get her to eat anything. In the end, by the time she was a teenager, she would only eat mcdonalds or kfc while everyone else got homecooked meals.

Some of the rules or laws created just don't make any sense. I agree with you. There are people who would love to have those. I hate to see food thrown away anyway. I get mad at my husband because he rarely ever wants to eat leftovers.

i understand both sides to this argument, but at the end of the day, its down to the individual. If you want to recycle, then find an outlet, don't put the blame on someone else not wanting to recycle for one reason or another (such as its un-hygenic).

Too many people find excuses not to recycle and help others. Just get past that and help yourself to help others! dont rely on a 3rd party