Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean?
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 8 months agoSeems useful if you’re trained to read these, but it seems like a kinda shitty system to be slapping on stuff for sale to the general public.
ceenote@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I suspect they did it so people wouldn’t be put off from buying something close to expiration.
In fairness to the people I worked for, they only put it on stuff with a short shelf life anyway, so all of it was fairly close to expiring. Also, it was a convenience store. You were expected to eat that stuff right away.