Perhaps this is the same issue for any country, but this being Thailand, I am curious about Thailand.

At the luxury markets here in Pattaya, Villa, Central, Foodland, etc. they display some very lovely and very expensive imported meats.

At some markets, not so many people appear to be buying very much.

So there is of course a percentage of product that gets too old to sell, I imagine a pretty high percentage.

What are the economics of this?

I know that some markets try to sell questionable meat, but otherwise, what do they do with it exactly other than let it rot and throw it out?

I also notice this with avocados. It is common to see a while bin gone rotten and they don't even bother removing them for many days, hoping somebody will buy rotten cados. I always wonder why they don't deeply discount them when they start to turn eat the same day soft, because after another day or two they are trash and have no value. I assume they don't receive any refund from the wholesalers, right?

Maybe the four legged furry things that pretend to be starving to death are just pretending?