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Seems like the food producer would have a clear incentive to mark their products with sell by dates. If I’m making a food product for sale at retail and I can
by ihumanable 2y ago
Seems like the food producer would have a clear incentive to mark their products with sell by dates.
If I’m making a food product for sale at retail and I can mark it “sell by” some date, consumers get confused and think it’s no good after that date, the store that buys my food product will not want to keep it on the shelf because consumers won’t buy it.
The retailer has to discard the perfectly fine item and reorder from… me the food product producer and then I make more money.
I imagine the food retailers are happy about this and the food manufacturers are probably unhappy.
- bko 2y agoI think you can come up with a lot of scenarios in which any one person is happy or not happy. But in complicated systems, it's impossible to know exactly and you have to rely on market forces to work these things out. The problem is people coming in without any humility and trying to tinker with the system and getting shocked when there is unexpected consequences.