One of the shops near me throws out so much fresh bakery stuff every day that after collecting and redistributing it to poor single mothers and refugees there's still enough left over to provide me and 4 others with breakfast and lunch every day. Businesses overproduce and then throw away the excess to protect their profits, it has nothing to do with inventory.

Even if you weren't spouting bullshit, who cares? Fuck those people, who cares, let them have the food.

I absolutely reject your viewpoint, and I'm tired of pretending its okay to think this way, fuck you.

Keeping people desperate is by design.

Small restaurants are more likely to allow employees to grab food at the end of the day or even implement family meals. It helps with team cohesion, morale, and when normalized means it doesn't fuck with inventory counts because employees do record what they take. The 12 years I was with my ex spouse they worked in restaurants and were constantly coming home with food half the time it was the owners actively giving it to employees. The people working those places knew not to take advantage of it otherwise they'd lose that trust and the perks.

We could live in a world where big corps decide to let a little control go and treat their employees like humans and us and the corps would be fine. Instead of locking everything down we can just normalize human behavior and a base level of decency and people will respond positively. "Never take anything or you're fired" leads to people being sneaky and now the books are all fucked plus morale is trashed, "you can grab a reasonable amount but write it down and don't take anything that's high demand or hard to replace" and now the books and employees are happy and you can roll it into business expenses

Makeshit0p is a very spot on username for you.

The correct solution is to log it and adjust purchasing quantities based on the data. Allow giving it away, but log it as if it was wasted.