Most food, especially the sort that'll keep in a little box outdoors in even SF weather, probably doesn't have much value either, so far as the second hand mark

Most food, especially the sort that'll keep in a little box outdoors in even SF weather, probably doesn't have much value either, so far as the second hand market goes. If someone's stealing $0.49 cans of beans to resell for $0.10 each they probably really need the money, and the ones buying the $0.10 cans from some someone off the street probably really needed the beans. But for animals and the elements, we used to keep food (especially canned) outdoors year-round all the time, as a totally normal part of life. One of my grandparents was still doing it as late as the 90s. Granted that was done underground, but still, isn't that what technology's for? What good's all this newly-cheap democratized high-tech futuristic maker junk if it can't keep racoons and heat/cold from ruining a few cans of tomatoes in a box without having to stick it under the dirt like our very-recent-ancestors did? As for liability, maybe this'll have to be reserved for freer places than us, in the end. The US (and a couple other countries) love our huge signs covered in tiny magical-liability-deflecting words, after all. They'll be a key feature in our reconstructed religion when future archeologists are trying to figure out WTF was going on with us. They're not so far removed from the long formulaic texts you find on/in Egyptian tombs, actually, and in the same ballpark so far as silliness goes.