Helping those in need due to the season.Toys, clothing, cash, food?Consider this: every single
day, not just during the holidays, neighborhood and the major grocery store chains throw away hundreds of
dollars of groceries. Dented cans, bruised produce, torn boxes, and frozen meats. Our local stores want to
make available to us the freshest meats, chicken, salads, fish, cheese, soups, pizza and sauces. After about
four hours in the display case, it gets thrown away, and replaced with fresh! After all, who wants to buy
four hour food? How often has anyone seen the following;Customer: "I’d like a pound of … (fill in the
blank)."Store employee: "Certainly, how would you like that sliced?"Customer: "For
sandwiches please."Store employee: (displaying three slices), "how’s this?"Customer:
"Thicker / thinner please."Store employee: "No problem." Then throws the three slices in
a garbage can.Is it impossible to salvage this food for those in need? Every day this happens. Why can’t the
stores collect, store, and make available for pick up every day by churches, kitchens, and shelters to make
these wholesome, nutritious foods available for those in need?If you were hungry, would it matter that the
food was four hours old?Just food for thought.Fred FisherRudolph