If Thrift Stores sold food, what would they sell?

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 48 points – 9 months ago

The first thing that comes to mind is a big plastic bin filled with burnt burgers for 4 for a dollar.

Edit: I guess I was thinking more prepared/restaurant food.

The same food you’ll see at the dollar store.

expired candy bars

Slightly expired MREs.

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I knew some folks that used to own a "dented can" grocery store named Dirt Cheap Grocery. They would find all sorts of deals on entire lots of nearly expired canned and frozen goods and what ever various other things they could find through their various connections. There would always be something different, and they would have some pretty incredible deals sometimes. I remember buying an entire case of frozen hash brown patties for $5. There were six 5 lb bags in there. we split it up with my wife's sisters families. Another time they had those Michelina's frozen pasta dishes that had just expired for 10 for $1. My favorite deodorant scent had been recently discontinued and they just so happened to get a hold of a big display bin full of hundreds of them and sold them for $1 a piece. It took me several years before I finally ran out...

There's one fairly local here. They carry non-perishables, and their stock is definitely better than the dollar store. They used to be called "Freight Liquidators."

Canned rice.

That's such a weird thing to can but it's a thing in the US.

Ive never seen such a thing and I've lived here most of my life

I saw it living in the southern US a lot.

A thrift store selling food sounds like the food bank after a canned food drive.

canned food just at or past the expiry date.

Taco Bell, but not from like an actual Taco Bell, from one of those food court “express” ones with the limited menu that’s always out of something like sour cream.

Grocery discounters exist. They sell expired, distressed (torn labels, box tears, dents), test-marketed foods that failed, overage, etc.

Or see the Manager's Special section in your favorite supermarket.

I guess I was thinking more prepared/restaurant food.

Check your supermarket deli for discounted foods at the end of their "best by" time.

Can't believe no one has said fruitcake yet

Leftover snacks, of course

The local ones have a freezer with ice cream novelties, much as you'd see in a convenience mar. I assume there's a business synergy of having kids who have to look through 500 slightly differently sized used "size 12 jeans" to find the ones that fit, and buying their compliance with desserts.