Too Good To Go App

[Swanjaxs]

Good or bad?
Reducing food waste or should these food outlets be doing more to provide free meals to the homeless and struggling families...

 

[jack123]

Good or bad?
Reducing food waste or should these food outlets be doing more to provide free meals to the homeless and struggling families...

Just the homeless for me, I know some fekas who are on 50k a year plus, and they will still plead poverty, which ruins it for the genuine cases.

From what I have read in the past though, the too good to go app, and the food that they provide is not much to shout about. If you were a paying customer.

 

[MajorR]

It’s a mixed bag.

To be fair, some of the outlets that do the Too Good To Go bags also give food to homeless centres and shelters. I’ve seen one outlet do the bags and also put a pile of other food to one side for a food shelter.

I occasionally do some outreach at a couple of food banks and in addition to donations from the public, some of the supermarkets supply the food and direct. Contrary to popular belief amongst some, people can’t just rock up at a food bank week in week out and get bags of food, they should be referred in by social services, the police, Citizens Advice etc.

Believe it or not, I know of 1 group who travel around food banks and social supermarkets trying to get food which they then try to sell on for a profit - absolute scumbags. Fortunately the food banks and social supermarkets all talk to each other and have the offenders in their sights.

 

[Swanjaxs]

It’s a mixed bag.

To be fair, some of the outlets that do the Too Good To Go bags also give food to homeless centres and shelters. I’ve seen one outlet do the bags and also put a pile of other food to one side for a food shelter.

I occasionally do some outreach at a couple of food banks and in addition to donations from the public, some of the supermarkets supply the food and direct. Contrary to popular belief amongst some, people can’t just rock up at a food bank week in week out and get bags of food, they should be referred in by social services, the police, Citizens Advice etc.

Believe it or not, I know of 1 group who travel around food banks and social supermarkets trying to get food which they then try to sell on for a profit - absolute scumbags. Fortunately the food banks and social supermarkets all talk to each other and have the offenders in their sights.

It most definitely is a mixed bag lol

Just think the the likes of Greggs,Subway, Costa ect could do more to donate excess food to homeless and families in need of help.
Probably comes down to not wanting hungry people queuing outside thier establishments at closing up time which is fair enough...

 

[jack123]

It’s a mixed bag.

To be fair, some of the outlets that do the Too Good To Go bags also give food to homeless centres and shelters. I’ve seen one outlet do the bags and also put a pile of other food to one side for a food shelter.

I occasionally do some outreach at a couple of food banks and in addition to donations from the public, some of the supermarkets supply the food and direct. Contrary to popular belief amongst some, people can’t just rock up at a food bank week in week out and get bags of food, they should be referred in by social services, the police, Citizens Advice etc.

Believe it or not, I know of 1 group who travel around food banks and social supermarkets trying to get food which they then try to sell on for a profit - absolute scumbags. Fortunately the food banks and social supermarkets all talk to each other and have the offenders in their sights.

It most definitely is a mixed bag lol

Just think the the likes of Greggs,Subway, Costa ect could do more to donate excess food to homeless and families in need of help.
Probably comes down to not wanting hungry people queuing outside their establishments at closing up time which is fair enough...

Good shout Sj, no doubt even half the restaurants in town, could feed the homeless every night in Swansea on food that gets chucked away. And they deserve it, I know when you walk around town, they are walking around, swigging a can of extra strength beer, but I think there for the grace of god go I !! Like a couple of different moves here and there, and maybe if I had not met my wife, I too could be on the street.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Could happen to any one of us J2J at any moment.
I'm an atheist, but the "there for the grace of god" saying rings home.
Makes you think ...

 

[jack123]

Could happen to any one of us J2J at any moment.
I'm an atheist, but the "there for the grace of god" saying rings home.
Makes you think ...

Exactly mate, a couple of wrong moves here and there, and we could all end up in that predicament. I remember a programme a few year back, about homelessness in Swansea, and one chap appeared I was fucking gobsmacked, he used to be a waiter in Steak By NIght, and ended up living in a tent.

 

[Niigata Jack]

Just the homeless for me, I know some fekas who are on 50k a year plus, and they will still plead poverty, which ruins it for the genuine cases.

From what I have read in the past though, the too good to go app, and the food that they provide is not much to shout about. If you were a paying customer.

The more you got the more you want and the more you spend, absolute fact, is that!