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Originally Posted by yorkshireborn
store like M&S, Iceland, sell there frozen & fresh food that is close or out of date to a middle man who then repacks & re-dates it then sells it on again to stores like Jack Faultons and Heron who then sell it cheap.
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You cannot do that with 'fresh' food - i.e. it is illegal to change a 'use by' date - but frozen food is, as you say, often resold with a new 'best before', and I have seen operations where canned food has had new labels applied, also ...
M&S tend to sell their surplus chilled products to third parties after the 'display until' date, which usually gives a couple of days before the 'use by' - allowing for distribution, that usually means people buying the products right at the end of shelf life. There are no legal requirements for 'display until' labelling, but so long as the products are sold within the original 'use by' it is legal ..