Reply #14: Here's the thing... [View All]

[flvegan]

First, scenario. Let's talk, oh, I don't know...eggs. Consumed by the masses, expiration dates, store stock is usually pretty large. The eggs towards the top have a sell-by date of 7 days from today. The ones towards the back are 14 days. One is looking to buy a dozen eggs. This person eats 2 eggs every single day, like clockwork (or has a family and will use a dozen in the course of a few days). This person should, responsibly, buy from the front, allowing the stock to rotate. It leaves the "newer" ones towards the back for later purchase, or for purchase by someone that might need the full two weeks to consume the eggs.

Why?

Waste. If the eggs don't get purchased due to the mad rush for the later date, they become scrub. Scrub is a waste for the store (prices). Scrub may cause diminished demand. Considering battery farm owners make, literally, pennies per egg, this hurts the egg producers. Also, the dozen eggs that get thrown away is the production of a couple battery farm hens that lived a tortured life in abject squalor, just to be thrown away.