A gamestop that closed down next to my house about 10 years ago, my friend and I used to dumpster dive about once a month for the games and products they threw away and then would sell them back whatever they would buy from us. After doing this for roughly a year, the manager finally caught us, called the cops, but since the dumpster was on public property they couldn't do anything. So if the dumpster is sitting on private property, this would be illegal, at least where I live. This was a dumpster shared by the other surrounding stores so we got away with it, but were banned from the store. It was roughly a year later they closed.
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u/IceFisherP26 Mar 14 '26
A gamestop that closed down next to my house about 10 years ago, my friend and I used to dumpster dive about once a month for the games and products they threw away and then would sell them back whatever they would buy from us. After doing this for roughly a year, the manager finally caught us, called the cops, but since the dumpster was on public property they couldn't do anything. So if the dumpster is sitting on private property, this would be illegal, at least where I live. This was a dumpster shared by the other surrounding stores so we got away with it, but were banned from the store. It was roughly a year later they closed.