Walmart Food Waste

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I am really surprised to see that much food is being wasted by Walmart and other supermarkets. Which could be donated to Foodbanks. I think the reason food is being wasted because the customers buy food that tastes good, so they leave the food that doesn’t good like healthy food. ''Not saying that healthy food doesn’t taste good''. So the supermarkets have to throw it out because the people are not buying the food, and they put new stickers on it to extend the expiry date.
The other thing I'm really shocked by is that supermarkets selling us old and expired food. If the food is expired they just make it look good again by putting new ingredients on top or the outsides of the food. The second way they do this by putting new stickers

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