Beyond the Shelf: How Grocers Decide What Gets Donated and What Gets Dumped

Beyond the Shelf: How Grocers Decide What Gets Donated and What Gets Dumped
Food and goods are sorted to be sent to a food bank at a Metro grocery store In Toronto on Feb. 2, 2024. The Canadian Press/Cole Burston
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On a cool-but-sunny February day in Toronto’s west end, a temperature-controlled truck pulls up at the rear of a Metro grocery store, where pallets of food about to reach their sell-by date sit waiting. It’s time for the Daily Bread food bank’s weekly pickup.

Each package of meat, loaf of bread and deli item has been carefully inspected before ending up on the loading dock.