Supermarkets get their cut as you help fill the on-site foodbank box

AM I the only one who finds it incongruous that supermarkets “generously” allow foodbanks to set up in their stores to receive donations of food stuffs from customers of the stores? This is in no way altruistic as they collect the profit on the items purchased and subsequently donated. How much more philanthropic would it be for them to donate the profit made from these purchases to help the foodbanks?

When one considers the volume of food which is discarded by the supermarkets because it is past a notional sell by date or is not perfectly uniform in colour and shape is it not time that we started pressurising our politicians to force the supermarkets to donate the discarded produce to the poor and in need? David Stubley, 22 Templeton Crescent, Prestwick.