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If they deeply discount those things all it does is lead to customers only being willing to buy deeply discounted about to expire meat, at which point there’s no point them stocking meat because they would just be flushing money down the toilet.
Unfortunately it’s better business to discard it, and our laws basically mean they can’t even donate it once it is even a minute past the best before/expiry date.
British supermarkets properly discount meat that’s on its last day, and they still manage to be a cartel running a racket on the consumer.
I'm not suggesting deep discounts, just some discount, 10% seems reasonable. Still plenty of profit for them, not enough to move it into a different price category. Anyway poor people will eat pork which is less than half the cost of lamb
This isn't the weekly excess order. This is unsold Australia Day meat, hardly common