The other day at work I was facing the shelves--which in grocery language pretty much means taking groceries from the back of the shelf and moving them to the front of the shelf. And yes, it is absolutely, without question as boring as it sounds! It actually felt like some sort of punishment--being banished to the back of the store in complete isolation to rearrange the food on the shelves. Ok, maybe I'm being a little bit dramatic, and some people actually don't mind doing it because it's a mindless way to get paid for a few hours without any hassles. Anyway, there I was reaching my short little arms all the way to the back of the shelf and pulling boxes of Ritz crackers (or was it Doritos--I honestly don't remember what it was) and arranging them so they were all facing front and lined up on the edge of the shelf when I noticed that one particularly dusty box had a contest on it giving away tickets to the premier of Iron Man 2. Now for those of you who don't realize why this was sort of concerning (especially if you don't really pay attention to movie release dates)--Simply put--Iron Man 2 came out in May 2010 and now it's January 2011. Iron Man 2 was released as a summer blockbuster and now it was winter. This box had been sitting on the shelf for months and months. Now in all fairness it was just one box that seemed to have been pushed to the way back of the shelf and whoever stocks the shelves might have just overlooked it when they were restocking with new boxes.
It just got me wondering--how long does food stay on the grocery store shelf? Does it just sit there on the shelf collecting dust until someone buys it or does it eventually get sent back to the manufacturer? Does it just get thrown away? Obviously, with perishable items, (meat in particular) the items are marked down or go on special. But Doritos or Twinkies can last forever.
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