How come the grocery store sells meat in a styrofoam tray with saran wrap? Why not just vacuum seal it?
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.
>>21978106Lol 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.
>>21978114>Diablo 4Underage b&.
>>21978103Vacuum-sealed packaging is a pain in the ass to remove compared to normal packaging.
It looks badit costs too muchalso the flow of product must simply move along, it's like milk, if nobody buys, they dump it. Cows have no off-switch
>>21978103Stackability
>>21978103Meat that's packed from the factory is vacuum sealed.
>>21978377Modified Atmosphere Packaging is the middle ground
>>21978103because 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.
>>21978176>it's like milk, if nobody buys, they dump it.Most of it goes to making cheese.
>>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.
>>21979259Don't call it a diaper. What the fuck is wrong with you.
>>21979274https://g.co/gemini/share/6fe5152f32a1It's a fucking diaper
>>21979288>ai slop
>>21979304No, this is slopThat was Google using an LLM to reformat a search engine result into sentences
>>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.
>>21979308is pumpkin ketchup a thing? sounds tasty
>>21978103in straya it's a blastic tray so it least can be up-, down-, and re-cycled
>>21979259Vacuum sealed meat don't lose juices, it's vacuum locked within the meat
>>21979366people that spaz out over nightshades or weird FODMAP shit have come up with recipesit probably works
>>21979365shelves 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.
>>21979366That's Ketihup
>>21979366I 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
>>21979288Kek. That dudes nickname would be Diapers from now on if life was fair
>>21979448Yeah, people don't tend to know the impact of marketing/product appeal on decisions that seem like straightforward cost cutting. A lot of marketing psychology goes into how grocery stores do just about everything. Your points about cost of new equipment/displays are spot on too. >>21978106I'd really like to take a close look at Walmart's financials given their high population of part-timers and food stamp receivers. IDK how many people know this but companies get tax breaks for hiring people either currently on govt benefits or if they've qualified in recent history (can't remember the timeframe).
>>21980516go fuck your self
It's been twenty years since I last worked in a grocery store meat department but back then most of the meat came in bulk and we'd cut and package it ourselves. Some things like chicken breast was already cut into individual pieces but it was still a huge box. Grabbing enough to fill a tray, spinning wrap over it, and then heat plate sealing the bottom took a couple of seconds. With a chamber vacuum, the process time per tray would be longer.
>>21978103My grocery store sells some meat vacuum sealed. Usually larger/irregularly shaped cuts like brisket or ribs
>>21979448It works for dogs.
