Grocery Garbage Dumped in My Neighborhood

My neighbor, a very nice lady, said she had something to give me. It was two boxes of cereal, some tea, and a bottle of mustard. 

She apologized that the cereal was out of date, expired in July 2024 but noted the mustard was good until October and the tea was fine. I thought it was kind of weird but not too weird. After all the cereal is likely still fresh needing only a splash of milk to make it eatable. 

The next day I saw her giving a bag of cereal to someone else. It was Chex cereal. Just the bag with no box. Now, I thought that was weird. So, I asked her where she got the Chex and the food she gave me. She replied that she had been dumpster diving. 

Huh? Dumpster diving? 

But not literally.

You see, someone had dumped a whole lot of grocery trash in our neighborhood. She did not know who did it or why but she was told that the people in whose yard it was dumped would sort it all out for the trash collectors. In the meantime, as she showed me in a video, a flock of women descended upon that pile of garbage salvaging what they could. 

Here is a video of the voluminous pile of garbage which was unceremoniously dumped just up the street from me. 

While my neighbor claimed she was unaware of the circumstances of the pile's provenance she did claim that the garbage came from Metro Market as indicated in a few stickers on the boxes. That is also very weird because the nearest Metro Market is about 5 miles away. 

There are a lot of questions here that I will not be able to answer. However, I will certainly be on the lookout for a recurrence of this event.