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The pub doesn't buy it, the customers in the pub buy it. It's been pretty common (in places I've lived) for decades - traditionally it was heroin users stealing and selling.
It's not as common now, as there's fewer pubs and they're a lot more expensive (and richer people are less likely to want cash-in-hand stolen bacon), and everyone buys things with trackable card payments - but when I was younger, bacon, cheese, perfume, cigarettes, casettes, CDs, DVDs etc could all be bought off "smackies" at your local pub.
I see this same line of thinking in other comments. People shoplifting expensive items on a regular basis are usually trying to pay for illegal and frankly dangerous drugs, past or near future use. If it's past, it's entirely possible they are also prostituted and trapped in an endless debt cycle. If they get caught their "body guard" (pimp) may or not post bail, but either way, some sort of additional monetary charge will be added. I'm really not sure what the answer to this capitalist hell is beyond:
If it's a small amount of food occasionally, you saw nothing. Beyond that, whether or not intervention will break the cycle and have a positive effect for the individual is a craps shoot on too many unknown variables to predict.
So a apparently decades long black market for food doesn't alarm you... Doesn't tell you anything about society. More expensive items. I'm sure things that don't need to be refrigerated are a bigger problem.