[billybob255]

Not to downplay the good work he's doing, but both of those things (selling expired food and giving it away) are both pretty common. There are discount stores who specialize in expired food.

[fragsworth]

Yeah, it's nothing too novel. It sounds to me like he wants to take over a chunk of that market, by providing a large-scale solution that competes with all the small vendors. This article is mostly a promotional piece.

[pbreit]

The novel part is that a business person with prior success on a large scale is doing it. Hardly anything is actually novel.