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haele

(15,609 posts)
6. Sounds like they're supporting the local commercial bakery
Fri May 22, 2026, 03:08 PM
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In most states, the commercial grocery bakery (Hostess, Pepperidge Farm, Orowheat or any combination of above) that makes and delivers the baked goods either every other day or every three days, with a few specialty local bakers will typically deliver daily.
What happens is that if there was a significant number of product still on the shelves (as in, there's still more than twenty of whole wheat bread bags from the last delivery still on the shelves) the bakery refunds the bread not sold against the order being delivered and brings it back to the bakery.
That bread used to be shipped out to local "day old" stores, or sold to dollar stores, and sold to the public at half price.
Your thrift store is apparently acting as the "day old" store for the local bakery.

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