Halloween Madness

So today, all of our leftover Halloween stuff went 75% off. So, of course, all the crazies were out and about, ransacking the seasonal department and throwing things around. Its like they see some crappy plastic pumpkin for five bucks and think, oh thats cute but do I really need to spend my money on it? But then somebody else speaks their mind, like, "Oh, what a cute pumpkin! Maybe I'll get it for 75% off!" And then the first person, in a blind panic, realizes its the last cancer-causing plastic pumpkin and they MUST have it before somebody else puts their grubby little mitts on it. I swear, people just buy things to make sure they have it secured in their cart but then realize, hey I don't need or want this after all. I guess now that I'm sure, I can let somebody else buy it. So they stuff it in some random aisle, like between the tissue boxes, and just cause more of a mess for us employees.

Ahh how I love the holidays.

But anyways, thats was really just a side story to my real story here. Everybody knows that Halloween was this last Saturday and, naturally, so was trick-or-treating. Personally, my family bought six bags of candy and we went through all six. (We just happen to have a very busy neighborhood.) However my aunt, who lives in the same town but about ten minutes away, bought four bags of candy but only went through three. And even though she didn't use her last bag of candy, she still kept it. Thats just common sense right there. You do not return food to the store. 

Well not everybody out there in the world seemed to get that memo. Today at work I returned (no lie) at least 50 bags of Halloween candy. And I know people think, hey I didn't use these bags so I'll return them and get my money back! And thats all fine and dandy, but what people don't realize is that I can no longer re-sell the candy you just returned to the store. We cannot put returned food of any kind back on the shelf once it has left the store for safety reasons. The food, sadly, simply gets thrown away.

Yep, I had to throw out at least 50 bags of perfectly good candy. Never been open, nothing wrong with it, but yet, I was throwing out food. And I know its just candy and isn't like I'm throwing out cereal or other non-perishables that could go to a food pantry but still. I'm throwing out food when there are starving children in the world. And all so these greedy people out there can get there two or three bucks back. 

Just keep the candy. Its not going to go bad. Set it out in your home for company or give it out at work or school. Nobody cares that its in a Halloween-themed wrapping. The candy inside is still the same. There's really no need to return food to a store at all.