Sacramento Bee via Overlawyered:
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the nation’s largest food retailer, said Thursday it will no longer donate nearly-expired or expired food to local groups feeding the hungry.
Instead, that food will be thrown away, a move several Sacramento charities consider wasteful.
Olan James, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said the policy, which applies to all 1,224 Wal-Marts, 1,929 Supercenters and 558 Sam’s Clubs, is an attempt to protect the corporation from liability in case someone who eats the donated food gets sick.
One thing that we all need to realize is that walmart is a large corporation and makes policies that will be best for the corporation as a whole (in all locations). Just because donations could be viable in CA doesn’t mean they would be in FL. We can even take that further to imply they may have liability in Canada or China. Instead of making a policy for each location, Walmart operates as one entity with the same policies across the board. At least, as much as they possibly can. It’s just good business.