9.27.19 Grocery story happy hours lower costs and prevent food waste; Clark Stinks
The Clark Howard Podcast
Clark Howard
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Knock, knock, who's there? It's the land of same day. |
| 0:02.4 | What? Iceland.co.uk? It's only been two hours. |
| 0:05.4 | That's right. With St. Dave Leverie, we'll have your shopping with you in no time. |
| 0:08.9 | Shop online today at Iceland.co.uk. |
| 0:11.6 | Delivery from £2 minimum, more than £25 to your restrictions in terms of life. |
| 0:20.9 | Thanks for taking time out of your day to join us here on the Clark Howard Show, |
| 0:25.1 | where it's about you learning ways to save more and spend less. |
| 0:29.7 | And don't let you whenever rip you off. |
| 0:32.9 | So do you know something that I have been upset about for years? |
| 0:40.6 | If you're hearing me say this for the half a dozen times, I apologize. |
| 0:45.9 | But it just drives me to distraction that by most estimates, 40% of the food in the United States, |
| 0:56.4 | that we buy is thrown away. That it expires, restaurants end up throwing away a lot of food. |
| 1:05.6 | Anywhere you go, the food ends up being thrown away. In some cases, |
| 1:12.4 | it's really great where supermarkets have tie-ins with local food banks and route their |
| 1:20.4 | expiring food to food banks, where it is not wasted. And it does, in fact, provide food to families. |
| 1:29.6 | But that's only a tiny fraction of what's wasted. And I think about how over the years, |
| 1:37.6 | I've talked about specific places that have come up with ways to use the food instead of having |
| 1:47.4 | it wasted. I've given you the example of bagel shops that sell day-old bagels that normally they |
| 1:54.8 | would throw out. And they sell them 75% off because a bagel, well, generally you want it when it's |
| 2:03.5 | really fresh, but there are people who'd rather have 75% off and then they're not wasted. |
| 2:08.7 | Convenient stores that do a big business in donuts and pastries, from about 4am to 11am. |
| 2:20.3 | In the afternoon, a lot of them sell off their pastries and donuts a huge discount to clear them out. |
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