agsalaska said:

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OP clearly has never been to a third world country.

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How dare you!

Yes, I have been to East Texas and Oklahoma multiple times.

Food getting thrown out like that happens ALL of the time. We've supplied roll offs and hauled these boxes full of food multiple times. Every time a Walmart loses power, every bit of it gets dumped. Can't give it a way cause if someone gets sick, store gets sued. Just like they will this time if that stuff has spoiled already, even though they're not intending ifor it to be eaten by people, obviously. Not always spoiled though. Hauled boxes with pounds and pounds of frozen turkeys before.
Landfill we hauled to near BHam, Al, wild hogs would just be waiting for the load to dump and be all over it.

The white liberals voted for defund the police and abolish all prisons clowns in local government now they get the circus.

normaleagle05 said:

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Meanwhile at Kroger this morning in Dallas County....

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Best example of Biden's America.

Anubus said:

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Well they don't call it Slaughter Lane for nothing.

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Still pissed they closed Southpark Meadows

Yeah, cause the state legislature has proven to be sooo good at rooting out corruption and mismanagement...

LSCSN said:

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Anubus said:

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Well they don't call it Slaughter Lane for nothing.

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Still pissed they closed Southpark Meadows

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This!! Every time I have to go to Austin (thankfully few and far between now) I literally shake my fist at the shopping center that replaced the best outdoor concert arena in the state.

Unintended consequence that steak is being diverted from the landfill. Hobo buffet.

Most HEBs usually have a partnership with Enchanted Rock for backup generation (Buc-ees as well). I'm not sure about specific Austin regulations, however we've partnered with them in non-attainment areas here in Texas and haven't had issues with passing emissions or noise regulations. Their generators are amazingly quiet. I've seen some backed up to neighborhoods; they don't even know when the my run.

The generators are used for two purposes; for utility outage purposes as well as the ability to sell into the ERCOT market. HEB/Buc-ees usually only pay a fraction of the cost which allows Enchanted Rock to maintain ownership and utilize for ERCOT purposes.

TChaney said:

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Austin has gone full Mad Max. People are fighting over meat in the dumpster at the HEB on Slaughter & I-35. Power outage forced HEB to toss tons of product. via Elvira Gonzalez pic.twitter.com/xk2yW5yaD6

— Chris Walker (@WalkerATX) February 2, 2023

DON'T EAT IT: People who took food from dumpsters at an H-E-B in Southeast Austin are being warned not to eat it.

INFO: https://t.co/PiJhhxauyr pic.twitter.com/x5MDz7sa5g

— CBS Austin (@cbsaustin) February 2, 2023

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Am I correct in thinking that if there was no power outage this wouldn't have happened, and as such, it wouldn't have been an issue?

TChaney said:

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agsalaska said:

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OP clearly has never been to a third world country.

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How dare you!

Yes, I have been to East Texas and Oklahoma multiple times.

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I'm sure you meant New Mexico.

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Ribeye-Rare said:

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Legit question for guys in the big-time grocery business --

Is the incidence of power loss at grocery stores so infrequent that it doesn't pay to have the refrigerated cases on large backup diesel (or natural gas) generators?

I recall walking into a WalMart back after the great 2021 power outage and seeing every refrigerated case they had completely empty. That had to throw all that product away, although I think they left the beer alone.

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Capital expense, maintenance, permits, possible environmental regulatory issues since theyre all close to neighborhoods…not worth it is my guess. These would be enormous units just sitting there waiting for rare occurrences.

Take the loss and file with insurance. Or have a standby agreement with a nearby equipment rental company like Aggrekko.

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Every single Bucees has one, but the average Bucees does an order of magnitude more business then the average HEB.

Anubus said:

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Well they don't call it Slaughter Lane for nothing.

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Bought to say. Street name checks out.

2 days later...

Charles Hickson Knows said:

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My point of origin and yes it's sad to see what Austin has become. In the early '60's there was something magical about the place. Such a beautiful spot it must have been only 200 years ago. I hope it can be a success story.

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Yep. It really was a nice place. Even South Austin was nice-a blue collar area that was well kept.

Sad how it's turned out.

'Keep Austin Weird' mentality run amock. Keeping it weird just means the next guy up is going to try and 'outweird' all previous comers, and the crowd thinks they should just accept it, because to even suggest otherwise, well, you must be un-cool.

So you found perfectly good meat, maintained in perfect conditions- wow, imagine that!

Every lib-city self destructs - socially, culturally, monetarily… anyone see a pattern?

zephyr88 said:

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Every lib-city self destructs - socially, culturally, monetarily… anyone see a pattern?

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Yep. Watching The Last of Us and I'm thinking that's modern day.

You Austin guys will be paying premium prices for it next week at your local Taqueria and Food Trucks

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C@LAg said:

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you only learn from your mistakes.

a few days on the porcelain throne and they will rethink these actions in the future/.

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Will they though??????……

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Yeah, what makes these morons morons is the fact they cannot separate their victimhood from the consequences of their own actions. If they have and hindthought it will be to blame HEB for throwing out spoiled food.

TChaney said:

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agsalaska said:

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OP clearly has never been to a third world country.

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How dare you!

Yes, I have been to East Texas and Oklahoma multiple times.

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At least us rednecks aren't in the dumpsters looking for dinner. Still plenty of squirrels and raccoon.

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TChaney said:

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agsalaska said:

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OP clearly has never been to a third world country.

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How dare you!

Yes, I have been to East Texas and Oklahoma multiple times.

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At least us rednecks aren't in the dumpsters looking for dinner. Still plenty of squirrels and raccoon.

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You forgot possum.

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cevans_40 said:

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TChaney said:

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agsalaska said:

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OP clearly has never been to a third world country.

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How dare you!

Yes, I have been to East Texas and Oklahoma multiple times.

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At least us rednecks aren't in the dumpsters looking for dinner. Still plenty of squirrels and raccoon.

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You forgot possum.

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Shhhh

That's a secret delicacy.

Now they are gonna be next to impossible to find much like chicken wings.

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Shhhh

That's a secret delicacy.

Now they are gonna be next to impossible to find much like chicken wings.

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True storytime.

Grandparents had a peach orchard/farm. Granddad would shoot squirrels and raccoons that messed with his crop. He'd save the carcasses, put them in the freezer and then give them to the hired help for dinner that night.

Squirrel, raccoon, possum, carp was still fresh food and they were happy to have it. And they knew how to cook it. Mudcats for instance, soak those in milk before cooking removes the mud taste. Worked for other non palatable fish too.

texasag_01 said:

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Most HEBs usually have a partnership with Enchanted Rock for backup generation (Buc-ees as well). I'm not sure about specific Austin regulations, however we've partnered with them in non-attainment areas here in Texas and haven't had issues with passing emissions or noise regulations. Their generators are amazingly quiet. I've seen some backed up to neighborhoods; they don't even know when the my run.

The generators are used for two purposes; for utility outage purposes as well as the ability to sell into the ERCOT market. HEB/Buc-ees usually only pay a fraction of the cost which allows Enchanted Rock to maintain ownership and utilize for ERCOT purposes.

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Side note: The president of Enchanted Rock is a complete A-hole. First hand experience. And second hand confirmation years later.

throw some of this in those dumpsters and take
care of the varmin

agsalaska said:

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OP clearly has never been to a third world country.

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I've been to Mexico and into grocery stores and they had power.

Really makes you think.

agsalaska said:

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OP clearly has never been to a third world country.

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I thought we'd all been to California, though?