wire trader joe's shouldn't be singled out it's just one company among many crowds vons safeway whole foods costco sam's club and many others throw away staggering amounts of food every day but stores are only part of the problem of food waste all of us throughout perfectly good food on a daily basis we let it rot in our refrigerators we toss leftovers because they don't sound good or were afraid because we don't know enough about food to judge whether or not it's edible wasting food is a bad habit that permeates all of society implicating all of us in the problem which means we're all responsible creating a solution. i thought all of our food was all you know about forty percent of the. overall typical household but for about. a year what we saw was among younger people say they want to point lack of what. they don't know what to call it bad there's a fear that this this half is bad i think great here. he's a spring up a good point about. a little bit about food safety here. i have never been sick eating dumpster food my family has never been sick and i had to be really careful on feeding a small child