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A supermarket employee expresses frustration with inaccurate 'ripen at home' labels on produce, stating that items often take weeks longer to ripen than indicated. This discrepancy contributes to food waste as consumers may discard produce prematurely or find it spoiled before it's ready. A feature is needed in food management applications to provide more reliable and dynamic guidance on actual ripeness, potentially through user input, community data, or predictive analytics, to help consumers reduce waste.
This is a massive irritant for met. ! A giant pet peeve! I work at a large supermarket. The amount of food waste makes me crazy! This is AFTER the charity gets theirs, After the staff get a small slim-pickens of a bit of stuff. It makes me see red when labels, "ripen at home" and it takes 2 weeks longer than the date on the package says! My place of employment gives to the homeless shelters, a food waste app, it's staff and community organisations and still I see a hundred bags get thrown out. Fruit and veg because "it's not perfectly blemish free" goes into bin bags to be dumped. (I was told what's left travels to Germany to be "processed" into animal feeds. Well I've a hobby farm myself. Yeah. If love to be getting free stuff for my animals ( feed them less. Buy less in the first place. No one stays home all the time so buy 3 days at a time, not even.