Re: Co-open common sense
Cinder's your article there is a year old, Dec 2017 !
Just about all supermarkets have since provided such foodstuffs to charity organisations, in particular the FareShare organisation.
The support centres I have worked in often rely on such food donations. The street people don't care if things are a little out of date, it's the least of their problems.
What I have often found though is that the selection of "past date" foods is very limited.
Bottom line is the supermarkets want people to pay full whack for their products. It's not really in their interests to have any major level of cheap products because people will simply adapt and wait for those cheap foods to be put on display rather than buy the real thing.
That's why the "past date" or "nearly past date" bargains are just a tiny tiny area of the supermarket. A couple of shelves usually.
Food wastage is still enormous and the issues are not straight forward.
Here's the Fareshare link if you're interested:
https://fareshare.org.uk/