Complex sentence: Rather than stack items on shelves, they were tossed into wire baskets and unfortunately, FedMart's choice of labels for their own brand of food closely resembled that of the free food distributed to the poor by the USDA at that time.
Split into simpler sentences: Rather than stack items on shelves, they were tossed into wire baskets. And unfortunately, FedMart's choice of labels for their own brand of food closely resembled that of the free food distributed to the poor by the USDA at that time.