Why doesn’t PetSmart donate broken food bags?
A – Products that might receive minor damage are marked down and sold at discount. We recognize that this isn’t a popular policy. On the surface, one could easily conclude that it’s simply a matter of picking up the damaged bag and giving it away. But in truth, it’s a much more complicated and challenging problem given the volume of products we deal with in our stores. Damaged food bags can expose the food to contamination. Damaged foods also create storage and distribution challenges for our stores. For example, our stores have extremely limited storage space and it becomes a problem to store damaged goods. We admire the passion you show for pets. We share that passion. That’s why as a company we continue to promote animal welfare by donating valuable retail space in every one of our stores to facilitate pet adoptions. We voluntarily feed and house thousands of homeless pets daily as they await adoption. And we’re proud that more than 1,000 well-fed and -cared for pets find new homes
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