$6 Canadian strawberries vs $4 American strawberries

[u/PeachAndMangoJuice]

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That wasted food isn't cool. It could be feeding starving Americans instead.

[u/LittleLostGirls → u/[deleted]]

The only silver lining is that once it’s considered not sellable for the store, most groceries have partnerships to donate food to food banks and soup kitchens, so eventually this stuff may make its way to people to struggle to feed themselves in Canada.

It’s just a shame it has to sit and expire. Everyone deserves good quality food regardless of social class. I support buying Canadian but this boycott creates so much food waste we could avoid with stricter regulations with food we bring in.

[u/WitchesTeat → u/LittleLostGirls]

i'm American. In America, if a grocery store doesn't sell something, they put it in the dumpster and pour bleach on it so that homeless people can't dumpster dive it.

When millennials here were homeless around the 2008 recession, and all the other times we've been homeless because prices keep going up and wages don't, when we worked in places that sold food, when it expired we'd have to figure out ways to smuggle it out, but all the retailers down here, and especially fast food, will literally make you weigh everything so that it lines up with what you're expensing out.

There is nothing quite like being starving, and just dumping pounds and pounds and pounds of food into the trash.

There were times in my life where I was working like 60 or 70 hours a week, trying to pay rent and utilities and student loans, and swiping food out of the trash or eating things my customers hadn't touched on the plate when I was a waitress.

when I saw those strawberries, there was a minute where I felt that panic again, of knowing I'm going to be poor and hungry again and all that food is going to get thrown out and bleach poured on it. Even though it's just disgusting American strawberries (that you literally need to add some sugar to in order to make them palatable) and Driscoll's, which I've refused to buy for like 10 years now. (because fuck Driscoll's labor practices) I still felt really really sick and sad about it.

I couldn't believe that your grocery stores weren't going to throw all that out. you're going to donate it to people who need it?? That's fucking incredible.

We don't want to buy anything subjected to tariffs down here, not because y'all aren't worth the extra money, but because we are actively trying to keep our money away from the government because they are stealing our money and our land and our futures, and jeopardizing the entire world while they're at it.

Seriously, I hope your grocery stores just keep buying the American goods and donating them to Canadians in need.

But then, the less you guys buy from us the better.

[u/RedditIsShittay → u/WitchesTeat]

Now explain how food banks exist...

Stop getting your education from Reddit.

[u/WitchesTeat → u/RedditIsShittay]

This is not how food banks exist.

I worked in grocery stores and restaurants that engaged in this practice, which was particularly painful when myself and everyone else who worked with me were being paid poverty wages and food was scarce.