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There Are Cheapskates, Misers & Lazy People Who Don’t Want To Drive To The Store & Stand In Line That Will Take Advantage Of This...

We have them here and I always wonder if it helps those who really need it.....
SW-User
Eh, on the part of the people putting items in there it's a means for them to allow their unwanted food to be used as opposed to ending up in the garbage. I would hope it'd go to the truly needy, but I'm okay with it being used by anyone as an alternative to simply throwing it out.
REMsleep · 41-45, F
@SW-User Yes. My mom has been eating food from the local foodbank which I don't like her to do because its for the truly needy but my little cousin is very poor and she pics up a bag and gives good things to my mom so they eat it.
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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
We have them in places around the UK too.

Annoys me that they're necessary really.
They say a mark of any nation is how it treats it's poorest. And if 'Foodbanks' are necessary, there's something wrong somewhere.
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
@Picklebobble2 There not just marketing for churches. But they're better than tossing perfectly good food.
Ingwe · F
we also have donations bins but mostly in supermarkets
we can but hope people will not take food from the really desperate
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Ingwe I don’t know about that. When I worked at Walmart there was a young man who rode a bicycle and carried a backpack full of groceries he would return for a Walmart card. He did it quite regularly like several times a week and my friend who was also a greeter said he did it several times a day sometimes. I figured before she told me that he was going to church pantries and other pantries and taking handout from them. There are several churches who help people that way. Some days he would have 2 dozen items and over half of them would be things not even sold at Walmart. Like random things people take off their kitchen shelves & donate to food drives .
Ingwe · F
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Ingwe yeah and customers would buy things like bags of flour or cornmeal etc sometimes and bring it back saying it had bugs in it and then looked and saw it was out of date. I wondered if it was because this guy had brought so many things in that had been donated from people’s homes....yikes.
LucyFuhr · 56-60, F
We had a number of them closed, taken down or moved to private property where they can be supervised.
Not only did the city deem them a safety hazard, people started putting all sorts of (literal) garbage in them.
Ingwe · F
I want to erect such a thing in my front yard
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Ingwe I bet 😂
Ingwe · F
That's a lovely initiative. I've seen similar but with used books. A neighborhood library of sorts.
But yes, inevitably someone will abuse it.
@cherokeepatti Agreed. After tales from friends in retail, and security, I'm convinced people have no shame.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SethGreene531 Well some don’t and that’s for sure. The stuff that many of them steal are not necessities for living.
@cherokeepatti Exactly. I can't fault a man who's desperate and hungry, or a woman needing formula for her child. But there's no grace for the scam artists working most these locations.
Nobody00 · F
I think this idea take what you need started in Italy. I saw a photo of little italian store they had a separate shelf with “take what you need for free” it had breads, cereals etc
I love the idea, but around here it would be emptied by the first person that saw it.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@UnderLockDown yes I think so, there were a young guy who rode a bike & wore a backpack that would come to Walmart 10 years ago when I worked there and return dozens of random food items nearly every day, some days more than once. A lot of the stuff he brought in wasn’t even sold there so I know he didn’t buy it himself...looked like it was donated to pantries. Someone like that will take advantage of these free food pantries.
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MarineBob · 56-60, M
We can only hope it does
REMsleep · 41-45, F
Nice idea. I prefer to help people individually but this is a good idea
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@REMsleep I guess if a person “borrows” something because they are cooking dinner & find out they are missing an ingredient & get it from the box pantry, that they can go to the store and buy whatever it was they took to replace it.
Lilnonames · F
We have book ones too and ive been getti g a couple and give them to friends with kids
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Lilnonames Do you live in California? I saw a lot of used book racks at random places like in front of tourist areas, small restaurants etc. and they charged a little bit like 50 cents or $1 for each book. I thought that was an interesting way to recycle books. And better than paying full price for a new book if you were just looking to read something interesting and not wanting a specific book.
Lilnonames · F
@cherokeepatti no im on the east coast and ive only seen them at churches some brand new and a lot of learning books for kids
Lilnonames · F
We have them to and i only take when im homeless.and i also fill them once in a while
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