Interesting, better than dumpster diving at least.
I have discovered this application for hobos on the wect today. Does bernd use it? Share your eggsperience.
Looks like a platform for retailers to offer food close to expiry at advantageous prices. If you wait the next day you will find it for free in the bins tho.
It doesn't help fix the problem at the root, just a mere patch-up. The mentality has to change.
Here there is a 240 liter bin consistently full of bread every morning. It's cheaper for them to overproduce every single day than to risk a customer not finding their preferred variety of bread at any time of the day and maybe changing store.
Also the laws are retarded. If I poison myself with the expired food I fished out of the bin, which is technically stolen, I could take them to court. So of course the managers are often pissed off when someone is dumpster diving. But many other smaller shops you can just ask and they often have older stuff in the back ready to be thrown out they will give.
Eat it I guess,feed the animals.
Funny thing is I don't even like drinking that much, the cheap spanish red was planning to make a batch of vinegar and use for cooking.
Dessert was a real good find though!
Here you have to go early in the morning before the shop opens, once they cleared out expired stuff but before the garbage truck comes by.
I often wait on the other side of the road behind bushes until some employee comes out with crates full of food.
I've had a few encounters during my eacapades. Always I'll be cordial within thw environment, just to avoid any escalating emotions which could bring the bolice.
Nz is very protective of their rubbish for health and business reasons. I was told, that even pig farmers aren't allowed to reuse the food, but how true it is is beyond my current laziness to investigate.
Yes keeping it calm is necessary. I've tried to explain to managers the madness of it all but they won't hear much. Best working tactic until now has been to just say "good morning, yes you are right" whenever they find me in the back and walk away, wait two minutes and go back rummaging.
Sometimes I have been discovered a second time, pepper red furious manager I bail out fast.
They menace they will pour bleach over the stuff but then they risk a big fine here.
Being caught a second time is always my favorite scenario.
Last time it occurred to me, I had innocently walked into a supermarket to catch some cardboard to continue my hitch hiking adventure to nowhere. When I saw how plump and fertile the rubbish bin next to me was, I cracked faster than an egg and plunged my fingers into the supple sacks, ripping open their contents to my greedy eyes.
Upon plundering numerous vegetarian pies, a few boxed pizzas and some other processed foods, the manager came out, politely telling me to leave. I turned the corner, wrote my sign, and peaked around to do a quick in and out rescue of my goodies and the supervisor came out as I started searching the rest of the bags.
"D-g, what are you doing? You can't do that! I'll call the bolice!"
"Oh please no, I was just hungry, and had no idea this was private property. Please don't call the bolice, I'll leave immediately!"
And so she barked to a young lad to open up the gates, which were promptly opened and the lad told me whatever goodies in my arms should keep me right, all the while laughing his head off.
Overall, I try to keep a cordial relationship and keeping cool is ideal. Its their territory, which is how I see it. Entering it is usually going to bubble a reaction, which will generally be negative as the dumpster diver is always seen as a substandard person rummaging through a rubbish bin.
My major concern has been to catch any diseases or possibly get cut or hurt while doing it. A few weeks ago my hands were chewed up by tin trays as I passed them through a cheesecake shop's bin. It was worth it, but my finger got a slight infection that made playing the guitar a mild misery.