The Waltons’ weaponized incompetence gave me my first grape of wrath moment, complete with security guarding the dumpsters. Had to watch roughly $250k to $500k (sale value) of still edible product, but outside sellable temp range, all get thrown into dumpsters. All because they didn’t have any alerts set up on their C02 refrigeration system. Control breaker tripped, compressors stopped running, high pressure reliefs dumped the refrigerant charge, store was completely unaware for 8 hours, supply houses don’t have refrigeration grade C02 laying around, took 3 days to restart.

All that food waste should have been avoided with a simple deadman panic alarm, and a backup refrigerant charge on hand, but Walmart didn’t want to spend the money on either. Instead they spent it on moving fixtures around, making a corridor through the middle of the store with caution tape, and just wasting everything.