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Posted 23 April 2021 - 07:38 PM

What is the best process to follow when giving away donations to employees? We often have muffins that are not within spec. It's mostly cosmetic, however, I don't feel comfortable employees taking retail items with labels and full item description. How can this be handled?

 



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Posted 23 April 2021 - 09:11 PM

Hi,

I would recommend destroying the brand label using a very visual, obvious method. It is very common for companies to donate their rejected product (food safe) to employees. If the concern is that they will resale the product, destroy the UPC and brand name. It could be as simple as using a large/bold, indelible marker to strike through these areas on the packaging. If it's a sleeve, remove it.

 


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Posted 25 April 2021 - 01:51 AM

couple of clients just use black bold markers to block out their labels.

 

One client we had gave aways thousands of nutrition bars everyday because of filming issues, in that case they were simply marked as samples.


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Posted 26 April 2021 - 03:56 PM

All of your employees should have it written into the employment contract that the resale of items is verboten

 

Bulk pack them in food safe plastic bags in a carton with ingredients and stamp them as seconds, not for resale


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Posted 26 April 2021 - 08:32 PM

Ha...use the word "verboten" in our employee agreement a lot of heads would be scratched.  Good word...I haven't seen it in quite some time.

 

All of your employees should have it written into the employment contract that the resale of items is verboten

 

Bulk pack them in food safe plastic bags in a carton with ingredients and stamp them as seconds, not for resale



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Posted 27 April 2021 - 02:53 PM

We have this very often, we just repack into basic packaging or if the quantity is too high to do this i just get a black marker and scribble over the packaging





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