An update --- the continued story

As many know, I had concerns on Friday on a grocery shopping trip.  I was contacted by HEB, which I am very pleased about.

I spoke with someone at the corporate level who oversees food how food is handled that goes to the food banks and other organizations.  I had some clarifications that I wanted made and had some concerns I still wanted to share.

It was a favorable conversation.  He wants to do checking up on the store level which I think is GREAT.  It turns out that the items that were pulled from the bakery at this particular store were pulled early.  They are pulled on their expiration date at around noon.   I was shopping at 6:45 in the morning.  Hmmm...

He also understood my concern for the bread being thrown at this particular HEB.  (I have seen it happen at other ones as well).  He is going to look in to how they can better handle that.  I shared my concern that the bread was taken back to the warehouse.  Because of the delicate nature of bread, all of it goes directly to the Food Bank.  He was also going to check in to this clerk's claim that sometimes the Food Bank didn't come.

All in all, I am pleased.  HEB does wonderful work with hunger issues in Texas.  The gentleman and I had a fruitful conversation.  He saw my concern about the "fancy breads" and said that he would check with the proper people to make sure everything is as it needs to be.

My main point in my blog was not to have talks with HEB, although I am glad I did.  Mainly, I wanted to voice my concern for the need for awareness of wasted food.  The fact of the matter remains that as Americans we are wasteful.  Many are hungry and yet we all let food go to waste.  We don't make sure it is where it needs to go.

I am not going to change the world.  But, perhaps I have made a needed HEB connection that will help to be a service to people who need it.

Thank you HEB for what you do.  Thank you for taking the time to care about some random youth director's blog.

AMEN