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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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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.
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>>21978106
Lol wht the heck? My dad just buys me Diablo 4 if I ask. He’s got lots of money. Vaccume seal next time you piece of shit, I’m not going to be buying your cheap ass chicken packaging.
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>>21978114
>Diablo 4
Underage b&.
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>>21978103
Vacuum-sealed packaging is a pain in the ass to remove compared to normal packaging.
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It looks bad
it costs too much
also the flow of product must simply move along, it's like milk, if nobody buys, they dump it. Cows have no off-switch
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>>21978103
Stackability
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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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>>21978176
>it's like milk, if nobody buys, they dump it.
Most of it goes to making cheese.
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>>21978103
>Why not just vacuum seal it?
Styro packaging can be stacked in store coolers and the diaper absorbs excess juices, it's why beef, chicken and fish are all packaged that way.
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>>21979259
Don't call it a diaper. What the fuck is wrong with you.
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>>21979274
https://g.co/gemini/share/6fe5152f32a1
It's a fucking diaper
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>>21979288
>ai slop
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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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>>21979308
is pumpkin ketchup a thing? sounds tasty
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>>21978103
in straya it's a blastic tray so it least can be up-, down-, and re-cycled
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>>21979259
Vacuum sealed meat don't lose juices, it's vacuum locked within the meat
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>>21979366
people that spaz out over nightshades or weird FODMAP shit have come up with recipes
it probably works
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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
That's Ketihup
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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

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