A Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next. In an inadvertently sent email, the company calls one pricing tactic “smart rounding.”
just to say, I personally know two people who have done online order picking at two different grocery store chains in ireland and neither of them were told to get older things.
you are also able to click “rest of shelf” on items on the website to see what else they have that are available alongside that item in the physical store.
im just saying, those two things arent true or entirely true (it def takes effort to find lesser known things)