Let's keep it a hundred: walking into a grocery store these days is enough to make your pockets hurt, but finding out what they're doing behind closed doors will make you straight-up mad. A former cashier named Ann Larson recently blew the whistle on the whole supermarket game, showing how these big chains are dumping massive amounts of food every single day. We are talking about up to 40 percent of the food produced in this country going straight into the garbage. That makes food the biggest thing clogging up our landfills, all while people on the block are struggling to buy basic groceries.

Take a look at the rotisserie chicken station. To most people, those spinning chickens look like an easy, cheap dinner. But behind the scenes, it's a horror show. A deli worker told Ann that they tossed out sixteen whole birds in a single night. Why? Because some manager decided a half-empty display case looked 'sad.' To keep that display looking pretty, workers have to get up before dawn, seasoning and roasting birds all day long. One poor worker even burned his arm up real bad trying to shove chickens into the hot oven and had to quit. All that pain and sweat, just for the leftover food to go straight in the trash at closing time.

It's the same nonsense over in the bakery. Another worker confessed they throw out one to two entire shopping carts of fresh-baked bread every single night. When asked why they're making all this extra bread just to dump it, the worker said it was simply to make the shelves look full. Think about that: people are working hard, baking fresh bread from scratch, only for corporate to throw it in the dumpster so some rich shoppers don't have to look at an empty shelf. It's wild.

According to a USDA study, the supermarkets are the biggest culprits when it comes to wasting food. About 31 percent of all food waste—that's a crazy 133 billion pounds—happens after the food already makes it to the stores. Because shoppers want perfect, undented boxes and flawless produce, the stores end up throwing away perfectly edible food. A girl working the produce section was so sick of it she started taking photos of the waste—piles of boxed salad greens and fresh berries thrown out two days before their expiration dates just because of store policy.

Now, you'd think they could just donate this food to the local food banks or people in the community who actually need it. But corporate says no. Setting up a safe supply chain to move that food to people who are hungry costs too much money. At the end of the day, these retail companies are out to make a dollar, not feed the streets. It is literally cheaper for them to pay to throw food in the trash than to give it away to a starving family.