In St. Petersburg, pensioners got into a fight over arrears

"Son, maybe you will live the same way." In St. Petersburg, pensioners used to collect sausage in the middle of arrears in a garbage can. An eyewitness captured on camera how pensioners are looking for products in a garbage can on Vasilyevsky Island, writes fontanka.ru.

A passer-by in St. Petersburg observed the sorting of overdue products in not the most hygienic conditions. Pensioners were looking for something that could still be used in food among the garbage.

The video in the group "Live on Vasilyevsky" was published by Alexey from St. Petersburg on August 16. The footage shows a group of six pensioners and one pensioner on the 11th line of Vasilyevsky Island. Those gathered waited for the employees of "Pyatyorochka" with a delay. The townspeople dropped the basket on the asphalt and began to grab its contents with quick movements.

A pensioner in a green jacket and snow-white sneakers had a sausage slip out of her hands, and she had to pick it up from the wet asphalt.

"Shoot, I like it. <...> Son, maybe you will live the same way," the lady addressed the eyewitness.

Store employees in the background commented that this was not the first time they had observed such a situation.

Product chains are prohibited from throwing out expired products, they must be disposed of as food waste. Fontanka sent a request to X5 Retail Group (managed by Pyaterochka).

"Fontanka" has repeatedly written about how in St. Petersburg, bread from stores ends up in the garbage can. In Finland, however, retailers try to get rid of missing products before X-day arrives, donating the food to charity. And the "missing ones" are taken for processing to turn them, for example, into energy for heating.