You can thank the government for creating laws and regulations which causes this. You know why bakeries have to trash their food instead of giving out to the homeless? Regulations. Thanks government!

Same things with housing homeless people. It takes so much $$ to look after a large amount of homeless people that many places can't afford to even try.

Building codes, zoning, laws, taxes, fees, certifications. The list goes on and on for literally anything we want to do. Let's not talk about any of that though. Government loves us and is here to keep us safe! Yes, Amazon is a shitty corporation but the government is what allowed it to become that way and get even worse.

I wouldn't necessarliy say all those things are bad. Stuff like building codes (within reason) are fine IMO especially for commercal buildings. I disagree with stuff like trying for force people to put on solar panels, or force them to connect to the grid if they did have solar panels etc. However minimum weather tightness or earthquake safety stuff is alright.

I'm talking about the entire over bloated system and unnecessary paperwork, fees and permits. Doing simple renovations or additions should not require what they do in many, many places. These things destroy small business by design. It's insanity. Sorry, I'm a small business owner and this topic really grinds my gears.

I agree it's all a scam to steal hard working tax payers money. Meanwhile big corporations get tax breaks

This. So much this. The government is a god damn train wreck and it’s honestly astonishing to me that people think we need more if it. Corporations are allowed to act the way they do because they’re protected by shitty government laws to begin with. Why would you want those assholes to control more of your lives?fucking moronic

System is never fixed, it's only built upon.. Then you have to brake some obscure code, and do something illegal, and that's the point system wins. You live in constant fear of getting caught on something like , idk. "loitering" which is for me the most amusing US law or something.

You know why bakeries have to trash their left over food instead of giving out to the homeless?

I owned a bakery and gave all the old bread to the local food pantries except during hunting season because bear hunters would pay for it.

Worked at a pizza shop and we'd give the left over slices to the homeless guys at night. We were living on the edge. Thank god the health inspector did not come by at 1am.

They have changed the rules on this. A business can no longer be held liable if someone gets sick from food that is given away as charity. A couple of years ago, if I recall correctly.

That's what's up, back when i worked at pizza place I'd always feel so wasteful throwing away 10-15 big ass pizzas every night. Make me think of how much food gets wasted everywhere else. Every day.

I've read in America it's up to 40%

Worked in a food distribution center in phoenix az. Hundreds of lbs of food every day simply because it couldnt be taken away

So you that good deed feeling with bonus adrenaline rush? Kick ass! Where do I sign up?

Ugh, any local food joint that over produces food in quantity where there are also homeless people?

You seem so bothered to answer a rhetorical question that wasnt even directed towards you.

So you were not literally asking how you could get an adrenaline rush from sharing the left over food at a minimum wage job? Because sharing and helping those less fortunate feels good?

That's crazy.... feeling good only comes from acquiring wealth and dressing "alternative" while twerking. Duhbz.

I don't know how to answer that, and think i am just too old to get the last part.

Las. Vegas. Buffets.

Saw a special on what they do with that left over food and it actually does not all get wasted. It is fed to swine.

That’s doesn’t mean some don’t

Plenty of bakeries where I live who donate left over food to food pantries and shelters. The problem is there is a lot of food coming in so the pantries and shelters actually turn away food because there’s so much being brought in it goes bad

What regulations??

Amazon can do whatever it wants, it's part of the government now.

Just wait till they open their second headquarters in Washington D.C., where Belzebub already owns the newspaper.

What marks you think it will wind up in the ocean?

Everything does... eventually.

Thank god people are waking up to Amazon's bullshit. I feel like 7 years ago people looked at me like I had 3 heads.

Not that it isn’t totally believable, but do you have any type of source on this?

my girlfriend signed up for some program that involves amazon sellers sending their stock to you for free so they can dump their intentory without getting a flag from amazon for not keeping up with stocking fees

she gets a bunch of junk, nothing useful yet besides some led light bulbs

Yeah, there is some youtube channels that do unpacking of palletes full of various tech shit that you can get for like 100 bucks or so. I think you bid on it just by looking at the photo of pallete. Like warehouse wars. Then you pray it isn't just a bunch of old routers and shit.

Lol. So you can pay the seller to put their product in the landfill?

What do you mean “using the fulfillment centre and decide to stop spending money on restocking fees”?

How can you decide not to?

Not really restocking fees, but if your product is sitting in their warehouse they'll charge you a fee every month or something. If you don't pay it, they destroy your product apparently.

Sellers have the option to have their product shipped back to them if they want it, some just choose not to because they don't want to pay for the shipping and then figure out where they are going to store it.

That makes more sense.

Get the fuck out of here with this garbage. Every single company in america does this. It's even in the retail 101 book.

O shit its in the retail 101 book! Fuck well guess it is the best thing going and we should never question it! Fuck, once anything is written or in practice we should never question it or change it again because its obviously the BEST we can do!

Get outta here with your two-dimensional eye holes.

FOR THE RECORD......Reddit is hosted by AWS. (amazon web services)

Lol

I used to work at an Amazon warehouse. People there didn't seem like they enjoyed the job. I saw one employee cursing out either the company or someone higher up as he left work lol.

Great story...

Im surprised amazon doesn't have a clause in their contract where they get to keep and sell inventory not paid for by the seller for storage. That is what you're talking about, right?

Everything does... eventually.