@incendiary_dan I disagree; so long as your company’s goal isn’t “to mess things up for teh evulz” you’re open to new ideas and technologies; at the end of the day, you just want to make a buck, and it would be nice if there were someplace to spend it.
Consider this not-quite-the-same-case:
As you might expect, the Meat Dept. at Sam’s produces a lot that doesn’t sell. I am including in this the fat and gristle that gets trimmed from the meat, the sausages that didn’t sell by the ‘sell by’ date, and the rotisserie foodstuffs. For the longest time, all of that was thrown away.
Then someone got the idea to sell the scraps to a company that boils such things down into grease for their own uses – resale, probably. Someone else worked out a way to donate the packaged food to a foodbank without risking frivolous lawsuits. The leftover rotisserie chicken was addressed in part by carefully tracking demand, and part by having the deli make the inevitable remainder into chicken salad.
Wal-Mart, whose goal is “zomg $$$ plzkthxsbai” and not “let’s laugh at the starving children from our Bentonville fortress,” listened to complaints and ideas, tested solutions, and made changes to their model, to take better advantage of their resources, to further their goal. They benefited, as did others.
That chicken salad? So popular that they have us make rotisserie chicken just so that Deli can make rotisserie chicken salad. Two birds, one stone.