Comment on Grocery stores should have food banks

• Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Staff from the store itself. I see no barrier for a large business with m/billions in profit to add additional staff to run the food bank area

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  • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So you’re not suggesting some sort of legal requirement? You want a company to voluntarily add labor cost, storage costs, any liability, equipment costs, etc on the chance people coming in for food assistance might buy stuff that not all grocery stores even carry?

    Companies aren’t going to do that voluntarily, that’s not a realistic expectation. The ROI on your suggestion doesn’t make sense, the only way something like that gets staffed is if you convince states to pass some sort of requirement that companies do this…

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    • Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is an idea to flesh out. There are so many barriers. When you discover a problem, try to also find a solution instead of tossing it in the trash.

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      • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You may want to take your own advice, coming up with unrealistic solutions to every realistic problem posed to you isnt helpful either.

        Loss leaders is a sales strategy that does not require additional overhead like permanent staffing, storage, and additional liability. Suggesting that they are makes it seem like you don’t understand sales, Operations, or logistics. I’m really trying to grasp how you think your “solutions” are helpful. Would you be comfortable providing insight into what industry you have the most experience in so that I can try to see it through the lens your looking at the problem through? (i.e. finance, customer service, procurement, etc).

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