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How come the grocery store sells meat in a styrofoam tray with saran wrap? Why not just vacuum seal it?
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>>21978103
Meat that's packed from the factory is vacuum sealed.
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>>21978377
Modified Atmosphere Packaging is the middle ground
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>>21978103
because vacuum packing is for very long term storage and most people use meat within a few days of buying it, and if you throw it in the freezer like it is, it will last 6 months or more as long as the plastic does not get punctured.
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>>21979274
https://g.co/gemini/share/6fe5152f32a1
It's a fucking diaper
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>>21979304
No, this is slop
That was Google using an LLM to reformat a search engine result into sentences
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>>21978106
>everything grocery stores do is to absolutely minimize cost down to the cent. profit on groceries is in pennies. vacuum sealing would add cost to the equation for no value to the store.
The meat would have a longer shelf life minimizing inventory cost though. I guess they ran the numbers and determined it's not worth it.
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>>21979365
shelves are designed with display and size and shape of product in mind. schematics that come down from corporate depend on everything being the a predetermined size and shape that is constant. vacuum sealed food is retarded to display because it just flops over each other. you'd need to put the food on a tray and then vacuum seal it. at that point you're basically paying for the styrofoam tray AND the vacuum sealing.
or, you could buy new styles of shelving and meechandising devices like springloaded tracks or dump bins that display vacuum sealed items better than the meat shelves you already have.
all of this is completely unnecessary so they'll never do it. not to mention that vacuum sealed stuff just looks worse to the customer and isnt as eyecatching.
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>>21979366
I prompted that a few years ago thinking it was troll material and then thinking over pumpkin soup I realized Heinz could probably make this work but the limited growing season was probably going to make it astronomically expensive