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  2. Expiration date - Wikipedia

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    An expiration date or expiry date is a previously determined date after which something should no longer be used, either by operation of law or by exceeding the anticipated shelf life for perishable goods. Expiration dates are applied to selected food products and to some other manufactured products like infant car seats where the age of the ...

  3. Shelf life - Wikipedia

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    Shelf life. This pack of diced pork says 'Display until' 7 May and 'Use by' 8 May. Shelf life is the length of time that a commodity may be stored without becoming unfit for use, consumption, or sale. [1] In other words, it might refer to whether a commodity should no longer be on a pantry shelf (unfit for use), or no longer on a supermarket ...

  4. FIFO and LIFO accounting - Wikipedia

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    For example, a company that sells many perishable goods, such as a supermarket chain, is likely to follow the FIFO method when managing inventory, to ensure that goods with earlier expiration dates are sold before goods with later expiration dates. However, this does not preclude that same company from accounting for its merchandise with the ...

  5. First Expired, First Out - Wikipedia

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    First Expired, First Out. First Expired, First Out (FEFO) is a term used in field inventory management to describe a way of dealing with the logistics of products that have a limited shelf life. These items include perishable products or consumer goods with a specified expiration date. The product with the deadline for the next intake will be ...

  6. Letter of credit - Wikipedia

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    The letter of credit is limited in terms of time, the validity of credit, the last date of shipment, and how late after shipment the documents may be presented to the nominated bank. [2] Once the goods have been shipped, the beneficiary will present the requested documents to the nominated bank. [3]

  7. Futures contract - Wikipedia

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    Expiry (or Expiration in the U.S.) is the time and the day that a particular delivery month of a futures contract stops trading, as well as the final settlement price for that contract. For many equity index futures and interest rate futures as well as for most equity (index) options, this happens on the third Friday of certain trading months.

  8. Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    Philip Kotler argues that: "Much so-called planned obsolescence is the working of the competitive and technological forces in a free society—forces that lead to ever-improving goods and services." [53] Critics such as Vance Packard argues the process is wasteful and exploits customers. With psychological obsolescence, resources are used up ...

  9. Lot number - Wikipedia

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    This enables manufacturers and other entities to perform quality control checks, calculate expiration dates, and issue corrections or recall information to subsets of their production output. It also gives consumers an identifier that they can use in contacting the manufacturer and researching the production of goods received.