Mouse-infested warehouse lands Family Dollar Stores with record $41M fine
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An investigation found “live rodents, dead and decaying rodents, rodent feces, urine and odors,” at a warehouse in Arkansas.
Family Dollar Stores was this week ordered to pay $41.6 million for using a rodent-infested warehouse to distribute food, cosmetics and medical devices to more than 400 stores across the South.
The largest criminal penalty of its kind comes after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation found "live rodents, dead and decaying rodents, rodent feces, urine, and odors, and evidence of gnawing and nesting," at the company's distribution center in West Memphis, Arkansas, the Justice Department said in a statement.
I think it was John Oliver that did a story on them.
It's a total shit show, but for some people in food deserts it's their only accessible option.
Yes it was. And their whole philosophy is to cut as many costs as possible, even when it makes zero sense. Such as not keeping a warehouse pest-free.
As John Oliver showed, they also tend to have one employee per shift per store, which makes things almost impossible to manage.
Mostly because towns allow them in and they create the food dessert. Here's another video essay about them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpUV--2Jao
What did they do wrong? They're just providing value by offering consumers free pets with their food!
That's a shit joke
It's a urine joke too
That's how you know when you've joined the peepee club
Urine over your head, kid
Let them eat Flakes
I just bought stuff from a family dollar 💀
F in the chat boys. Our dude's not long for the world.
Spread my ashes in Dollar Tree
How else do you think they keep it a dollar💀
They don't. It's $1.25 now
Three years? Good God, make it ten. That is disgusting and dangerous. Three years is not enough time for a company to be making mistakes that large.
All that free protein, and people are complaining?!?!