On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:04:15 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:01:44 +1000, Jeßus wrote:
>
>> Well... not *poisoned* as such, but I do know that in Australia, meat
>> thrown away by the major supermarkets used to be covered in a blue dye
>> of some sort, presumably to make it less appealing to dumpster divers.
>> Only heard about this in one state though.
>
>They probably did that so that the packages could not be returned to
>the store for cash by people claiming they bought it.

Yep, makes sense.

>Grocers here
>require the food bank to cross out the bar codes on meat items with a
>permanent marker for just that reason.
>
>That's a double whammy for grocery stores - not only did they have to
>take the loss of throwing it away, but then they had to buy it back
>from scammers at full retail price.
>
>-sw