Retrofitting so many buildings and hiring out the staff, and training them, is just not viable. Or even a good idea. You might as well want all of them to have helicopter pads and hotels attached.
Food banks exist. There should be more of them. But they are a very different kind of building than a supermarket and you need a VERY different kind of staff to be able to actually help those who need it rather than wander off because you are getting paid minimum wage and its your smoke break.
Rather than defeat the idea, why not try to think of ways it could work. Ideas need time to grow and flourish with revisions. Nothing is made perfectly the first time. What changes to the idea would you make in good faith?
Just because an idea won’t happen doesn’t mean we can’t explore the ‘what if’ :)
There isn’t much to retrofit. It could be like adding another pharmacy department counter.
There is no way this “could work” because it is a fundamentally bad idea.
A food bank is not just a cart full of loaves of bread. It involves people who know how to engage with various government programs and how to tell people how to engage with it. And, the good ones, involve people who know how to help the people who need to use said food bank.
Like I said above: the issue is not the food. It is the counties. It is getting people to allow a food bank to even exist in their county. And you can 100% bet that if it is such a struggle to allow one to be opened that they will not be cool with The Poors “shopping” in the same supermarket they do.
The issue is that you are approaching this from a REALLY shitty direction. Because the vast majority of the people losing their god damned minds over supermarkets dumping excess food? it isn’t the needy. It is college kids who decided they want to dumpster dive because that will let them save money on food to spend on weed. Because yes, supermarkets waste a LOT of food. But if you actually look into this at all from a “helping the needy” perspective, the issue isn’t the amount of food wasted (which generally isn’t actually THAT much because supermarkets would rather sell food than dump it) and more the distribution to the needy and actually having a food bank/shelter/soup kitchen in a given county/area. And distribution to the needy is almost universally stopped by NIMBYs
Retrofitting so many buildings and hiring out the staff, and training them, is just not viable. Or even a good idea. You might as well want all of them to have helicopter pads and hotels attached.
Food banks exist. There should be more of them. But they are a very different kind of building than a supermarket and you need a VERY different kind of staff to be able to actually help those who need it rather than wander off because you are getting paid minimum wage and its your smoke break.
That is a big leap to helicopter pads.
Rather than defeat the idea, why not try to think of ways it could work. Ideas need time to grow and flourish with revisions. Nothing is made perfectly the first time. What changes to the idea would you make in good faith?
Just because an idea won’t happen doesn’t mean we can’t explore the ‘what if’ :)
There isn’t much to retrofit. It could be like adding another pharmacy department counter.
There is no way this “could work” because it is a fundamentally bad idea.
A food bank is not just a cart full of loaves of bread. It involves people who know how to engage with various government programs and how to tell people how to engage with it. And, the good ones, involve people who know how to help the people who need to use said food bank.
Like I said above: the issue is not the food. It is the counties. It is getting people to allow a food bank to even exist in their county. And you can 100% bet that if it is such a struggle to allow one to be opened that they will not be cool with The Poors “shopping” in the same supermarket they do.
The issue is that you are approaching this from a REALLY shitty direction. Because the vast majority of the people losing their god damned minds over supermarkets dumping excess food? it isn’t the needy. It is college kids who decided they want to dumpster dive because that will let them save money on food to spend on weed. Because yes, supermarkets waste a LOT of food. But if you actually look into this at all from a “helping the needy” perspective, the issue isn’t the amount of food wasted (which generally isn’t actually THAT much because supermarkets would rather sell food than dump it) and more the distribution to the needy and actually having a food bank/shelter/soup kitchen in a given county/area. And distribution to the needy is almost universally stopped by NIMBYs
I hear your criticisms, but I also think you are not on the same page of understanding my idea as I am. It’s a shower thought anyways.