Family Dollar fined $41 MILLION for unsanitary warehouse conditions

[Sandy]

Looks like my sack of sympathy is...empty! Who would bother buying their crap, anyway, that's the same as a dollar store but 2x/3x the price? We went just once into a Family Dollar when we moved to our new town, and after checking it out for 5 minutes, we knew we had wasted our time.

The settlement's only the start. When any local, state and especially the federal government steps in, all the new "jobs" are giveaways to politicians' friends. Cuomo did that in NY when he was AG and went after financial companies.

[QUOTE]On Monday, Family Dollar Stores, LLC pleaded guilty to holding food, drugs, medical devices and cosmetics under insanitary conditions, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.

The plea agreement was in relation to a February 2022 U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation that discovered unsanitary conditions, including more than 1,000 rodents, inside Family Dollar's distribution center located at 1800 Family Dollar Parkway in West Memphis.

Family Dollar, which is a subsidiary of Dollar Tree Inc. (the companies merged in 2015), will have a forfeiture monetary judgement worth $41,475,000 million, the largest-ever monetary criminal penalty in a food safety case. The plea agreement includes a $200,000 fine and will require a strict corporate compliance agreement for the next three years, according to the DOJ news release.

An FDA inspection in January 2022 revealed rodent nests along with rodent feces and both alive and deceased rodents inside the facility. A resulting fumigation of the facility resulted in the extermination of 1,270 rodents, according to the plea agreement.

The infestation dated back to August 2020 when the company began receiving reports of pest issues from stores. In February 2022, the company closed 404 stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee that were impacted by the conditions and received shipments from the West Memphis distribution center. That same year, Tennessee state Rep. G.A. Hardaway called for an investigation into Family Dollar.

According to a Dollar Tree Inc. news release, some of the new health and safety compliance regulations include hiring a new chief legal officer, a new chief ethic and compliance officer, more food safety leadership positions, improved training programs, and maintaining an independently audited certification compliance.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fami...213000648.html

[Whitey Ford]

It's a safe bet that most of those employees staffing these rodent breeding grounds were niggers.

There's at least one decent dollar store called 99 Cents Only, but that's mostly staffed by Asians and Whiteys which is why it doesn't suck.