Rotisserie chickens in the trash: I worked in a supermarket and saw shocking food waste every day | Ann Larson

Stores over-stock their shelves, then toss out what they don’t sell. Meanwhile, workers struggle to make ends meet To most grocery shoppers, rotisserie chickens look like a mouth-watering and easy option for dinner. But whenever I pass by the rotisserie case in a supermarket, I see chicken carcasses piled up in the trash, their once glistening juices congealing into a slimy jelly. It all started when I was working as a cashier in a chain supermarket. One day, I was chatting with a colleague about the behind-the-scenes secrets that shoppers didn’t see. The deli employee said, “Last night we tos

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