My local grocery store puts large discount stickers on the prepped fresh produce when the dates get close to expiration dates. It would be nice if all grocery stores could flag items that are getting close to expiration dates so people could make choices accordingly. It’s so expensive to eat healthy and I feel it would benefit people and stores to discount the older items to get them moved through. Dairy products, produce, bakery items are all great for this. When I’m paying full price, I’m looking over every carton or digging to the back of the fridge for the freshest. If it’s on clearance, I’m going to make do, and take the savings.
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Most grocery stores have a clearance by timeframe to work with that customers arent aware of. Not everything is clearance on the same timeframe. Lunchmeats and perishables were typically 5 days before sell by date. To avoid shrink.
Meat such as beef has a 4 day shelf life.
Seafood has a 3 day shelf life. At one grocery store the policy was meat got marked clearance by the end of day 2. And seafood by the morning of day 2.
Digging to the back of the shelves actually causes more waste and prices to increase, including the clearance items that could otherwise be priced much less.
Take eggs as an example of typical waste by consumers. Did you know that 1 single egg in a container that looks discolored or chipped will keep a customer from purchasing the whole container. Stores will mark it down if you just ask. Same with other items with near sell by dates. They would rather do that then accumulate all the additional waste from items not purchased.
That takes staff to accomplish. When staff are mistreated, unpaid, treated less than, over worked, yelled at by customers and looked down upon, they eventually leave the employment without staff to complete all the task. Friendly advice, treat your local grocers and staff friendly, they will keep the stores stocked, cleaned and running smoothly 
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