Hy-Vee review: Food and grocery donations given at a bare minimum at hy-vee eagan mn

I am VERY disappointed in Hy-Vee Eagan when it involves donations to the local food pantry. I have volunteered at The Open Door in Eagan, and picked up donations at this Hy-Vee Eagan location several times over the past few years and it's only gotten worse in how much food and other items that Hy-vee Eagan does not donate, but instead throws in the garbage (or gives to its employees as I know for a fact they are doing). I know other Hy-vee locations that gladly donate. Other local supermarkets are very generous in their donations. For example, today, Feb. 24, 2025, other supermarkets in the area donated bakery, dairy, deli, grocery, meat, produce and household goods, each amounting to 500 pounds to over 1300 pounds of food and groceries, where Hyvee-Eagan donated 100 pounds, which consisted of only bakery and dairy. Randi, the warehouse manager, was very rude when I rescued food there and told me not to ask any employee throwing away what appeared to be good food if they could donate it instead of trash it. The dumpster is immediately next to where the food shelf pickup is at, so it's hard not to see what is being thrown away. She (Randi) said that the items to be trashed are priced out differently than what is to be donated. Randi also berated me when a few of the employees talked to me about whether I wanted what they were trashing, stating that she thought she was clear in not talking to employees. On one occasion, there were carts of flower plants at the place where we rescue food, and I asked if they were donations. Randi had the flower person come back and throw each plant in the dumpster right in front of me. Also, when they have donated some items that clearly came from the cooler, Hy-Vee Eagan leaves the food out of the cooler so long that the temperature is so warm that the food pantry has to throw it out. I talked to the store director, Jake Dimmitt, back on December 9, 2024 and expressed my concern then as the food donations on that day from Hy-Vee Eagan were 300 pounds (mostly bread and dairy) where other supermarkets on that same day ranged from 600 to 1600 pounds donated (and several were smaller stores). I told Jake how other supermarkets generally allow food-rescue teams to pick up out of coolers and certain locations in the warehouse (and are usually boxed up), not out of shopping carts by the dumpster. I asked Jake to get back to me by the end of the week, or I would boycott the store and leave a negative review. He retorted that they might donate elsewhere then. He never called me back as I had requested, and that was two months ago. I boycotted the Hy-Vee store in Eagan, and here's the review Jake. I am not asking for you to donate items instead of selling them in the store. Think about others who are starving and bring hope and help to the community. I can't imagine it's that much more work to donate vs. trashing, and I would think it would be better bottom line if you are pricing trashed items at cost and donated items at retail (my take on what Randi said). Do better please! There are people in need in the local community. Please help!