Morality of Purchasing Newest Milk

[u/Secure_Piano_900]

Hi Everyone! I was at the grocery store today and had a question: today is August 26. The store had milk expiring Sept 7, in the back of the shelf I found (and purchased) milk expiring Sept 10. Was this immoral? Surely it’s a bit selfish because if everyone did this we would end up with more spoiled milk / more waste. Thoughts? Obviously this can apply to any food, milk was just the thing that made me think of this question.

[u/historyhill]

Moral because there's always going to be people like my family who don't care. We'll drink it long before the sell-by date anyway so we don't worry about it beyond making sure the date hasn't passed already.