All that food wasted for something that could be fixed within the confines of the internet.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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Yep. These will all be recalled to stores who will immediately bin it. I love near a grocery store and seeing them do this shit is heartbreaking. Even more so when you realize they're dumping this perfectly edible food into locked dumpsters behind locked gates.
You can literally see the pile of food they've thrown out when walking past the store.
How many people are actually returning this product though? Nobody is going to any effort to return a product that costs so little.
And everything I've read about this recall makes the reason clear so I can't see anyone opting not to just consume it - which more than likely they already did immediately on purchase.
The product they're throwing out isn't stuff that's been returned, it's every affected product they have in stock, which could be loads. Not even donated. Just tossed out.
This product isn't the only one to ever be recalled. It won't be the last either. Also not everyone eats their food immediately upon purchase and not everyone looks into the details of a recall either. My parents would bin anything that was recalled, no matter the reason.
It doesn't matter how many people are returning it. That isn't relevant. The problem is that recalls are made over things that can be easily fixed remotely. The food is completely edible but any might be wasted because they made the decision to issue a recall instead of working with the site.
Lidl returns it's food to the distribution centres to be turned into energy. It's wasteful but it's not just in the dumpster out back.
That's something at least.
I get why they recall it, but let's be honest. How many people visit an URL found on food packaging? It's made for fans of the paw patrol show, and most kids that age don't come further then whatever game is popular on ios and android.
In reality they should have just said nothing, by recalling it and notifying the general public far more people are going to be aware of this. Had they just said nothing it probably would have flown way under the radar
Could have been against the law if they knew they had compromised package labels that displayed porn to children and they did nothing about it.
Someone did notice it and informed them. If they did nothing then they could get in trouble for inaction.
Uhh why not take down the site instead of wasting perfectly edible products?
Read the article?
I would have thought something named Paw Patrol would be a dog treat..
Anyone who wants to send one of those packages to me for, um, research purposes, please do so.
appykidsco.com
(NSFW / Chinese Adware / Possible Malware)
No malware was noticed but I'd use uBlock and a VPN, disable JavaScript, and a good antivirus at a minimum...
If you want to know what it linked to, someone posted the link in another community. It seemed to be a Chinese landing site (looks like something along the lines of a “this domain could be yours”), with a bunch of affiliate porn ads (read: 88px X 88px animated gifs) like you might have seen in the mid 2000s.
I couldn’t read any of it because it’s in Chinese, but that’s the gist of it.
Free biscotti and a link to free porn sounds great. I'll happily take the recalled product off their hands for disposal.
Porn patrol
Getting a real bang for your buck!
Quite the shock here. Recalling it is the right move.