But what happened to the poor spilled Heineken- such a terrible loss of good beer - curse dumbing down on packaging. Hopefully the remaining case was available for a discount price - yes I am that guy who heads straight to the short dated and damaged packaging shelves for the bargains - very little helps!
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I think certain laws prohibit 'individual resale'. Only the box has a bar code, the bottles do not. I think somewhere in the health and safety guidelines, when it comes to glass, the product gets poured down the drain and the bottle recycled. They fear the consumer might swallow chips of glass inside the bottle. It's all liability stuff. Some people would intentionally damage merchandise just to purchase later if they knew they could. There's a million reasons why they don't sell it. It is a waste. I worked in retail, years ago. The days after Christmas were especially depressing because many items would get returned to the store, and due to policy, much of these unwanted gifts were thrown in the garbage. The same thing happens with food. Superficial nonsense. Nobody wants the watermelon with the big brown blemish, so it sits there, then gets thrown away, even though it's perfectly fine on the inside. Dented cans, garbage. Bread gets pulled two days before its best before date, garbage. Meat products, same thing, except some of that now rots in a bin, then a truck shows up, takes it somewhere to be ground up, chemical rinse, then something eats it, but I'm not sure what.