Other day the grocery store clerk sold me 2 boxes of ice cream for half the price of one. They don't expire soon. How do you logic this?

It sounds like it was in sale. It may be a sale offered by the manufacturer, or one the store is offering directly. Getting rid of old stock is not the only reason things go on sale.

As a cashier, we don't care. Sometimes "i forget" to scan an item or two. If the item doesn't scan I'll ask the customer what they'd like to pay for it. For me it's companies aren't people, customers are.

The clerk sold you them at a discount, but not the grocery store? Like they were fully priced before checkout, but then discounted at the point of purchase?

I wasn't going to buy any ice cream but the clerk told me about the deal at checkout so I did. Another clerk was like "wow you sold another one?"
- Well then it sounds like the ice cream was on promotion and then he upsold the product. The sales are probably tracked and the clerk was working harder so it would reflect well on his performance review.

Slotting fees. They got a better deal for the shelve space.

Huh, never thought of that

At my old grocery store they had a clerk who had a movement disorder of some sort, so she was sort of like the Chicken Lady. She was all done with figuring out what an unusual piece of produce was coded as, and she'd just toss it past the scanner and not charge you, bobbing and weaving away.

🤷 Maybe they had a glut of inventory and needed to clear out space.

It's pretty simple - they don't give a fuck. They have no incentive to do anything but the bare minimum. And the other day, the bare minimum meant you got a box and a half of free ice-cream.

Big Diabetus