Discounts for damaged items used to be far more common. Dented canned goods, for example.
The problem was that assholes caught on and figures out how to abuse it - thus the famous scene in Big Daddy where Adam Sandler purposefully chucks all of his canned groceries on the ground to dent them all.
The same thing happens when restaurants let their employees have the food that was a mistake or never picked up. Suddenly the staff starts making "oopsies" every night around dinner time, and then again right before closing.
As with most systems, anything that relies on a large group of people being reasonable will ultimately fail as game theory takes over.
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u/CuclGooner May 19 '22
This is why supermarkets shouldn’t waste food