Quote Originally Posted by Riff Raff View Post
There could be a very sharp store manager at your tire shop that purposely rotates his stock and always tries to sell the oldest tires in stock first, and routinely puts brand-new inbound tires at the extreme rear of the shelf for longivity. Thus, you could have gotten the very last 2 he had in stock from the '07 batch, and the very first 2 he had from the '09 batch (which were deliberately tucked behind the '07 models on the shelf in date sequence order). Basically; sell the oldest first, and the newest last.
thats the standard with many different products, including tires at many places

ive worked delivering bread to grocery stores, older bread comes to the front of the shelf so it gets sold before reaching its sell by date

same with milk

same with tires

heck even in electronics stores when there is a shift in packaging, typically the newer packaged products go to the back of the shelf so that the older ones will sell off