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Edeka operator Klaus Heininger found that some of his food donations were left behind. The board gives various reasons for his behavior.
Wolfratshausen – Klaus Heininger would like to help. That is why the managing director of the Edeka branches in Waldram and in Breslauer Weg in Geretsried puts unsold groceries on the table in time for the weekly pick-up date. “Four or five boxes” are each time. What concerns Heininger: “Usually two or three of them just stop.”
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Some foods would be from Volunteers easy ignored. “Above all, the fresh produce and salads that I would have liked to give to those in need, in the end I have to throw them away,” reports the retailer. too breadTafel employees left it, which could still be enjoyed without problems. And refrigerated products like yogurt that are two days past the expiration date. “I hardly ever turn them off because they would stay there anyway,” he says. This is incomprehensible to Heininger. “In my private life, I sometimes eat yogurts that are three weeks past their best expiration date. They lack nothing. “
The businessman opines: “Tafel customers would definitely be happy with this, and I would like to provide this meal.” You could even sell these refrigerated products and make money from them, but then at your own risk. “The manufacturer’s liability only applies until the minimum date, after which I am responsible.”
Klaus Heininger runs the Edeka in Waldram.
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However, Heininger has decided not to offer such products to its customers at Edeka. “I prefer to put it on the table and help people who may not be able to afford some food.” But when he sees how much ends up in the dumpster, “that annoys me a lot.”
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For Claudia Brenner, press spokeswoman and deputy director of the Geretsrieder-Wolfratshauser Tafel, “a sensitive issue”. The food bank and its volunteers should adhere to some health and hygiene standards. For salads and fresh produce such as fruits and vegetables, for example, the requirement applies to only taking from retailers the amount “that we can actually pass on to our customers.” If in individual cases, as in the Edeka branches of Heininger, this meal is left to stand, “then our assistants in the previous stations have already received enough.”
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Tafel employees can take out expired refrigerated products, such as the yogurts mentioned by Heininger. The only exception is for meat and fish: “When the expiration date of these products is reached, we have to leave them there for hygiene and health reasons.” Volunteers leading from market to market. “When in doubt, our colleagues would rather leave something behind than give our customers potentially spoiled food,” Brenner explains.
Heininger is not entirely satisfied with this information. You understand that there are certain requirements for food distribution. However, he is not happy with that: “The public regularly criticizes the amount of goods that the trade throws away. But if I want to help, it will leak. ” As you are not allowed to give away the groceries to Edeka customers, you have decided to hand over the goods that have not been collected to your employees. “I can do something nice with it, and less food ends up in the trash.” Dominik Stallein
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