Throughout my state of California, and the entire US, I'm told, grocery
store bread deliveries are color coded by day. It's good to know this
when choosing a loaf to buy, for assurance that what you buy may be the
freshest possible. In case it hasn't been told here before, this is how
it works:

There are no bread deliveries on Wednesdays or Sundays. The little
plastic bag closure clips are in five colors, coresponding to the day
the fresh bread was delivered. It's pretty simple to memorize the no
Wednesday/Sunday part, and the colors alphabetically:
Monday-Blue
Tuesday-Green
Thursday-Red
Friday-White
Saturday-Yellow

Another bread-buying trick I recently experienced gave a small local
store another good income relating to their breads. I had bought a
rather expensive loaf of delivered bread, totally forgetting to check
the tag color. The very day after I bought this loaf, it began molding
and I was miffed at myself for color-check-neglect. Before merely
calling the store manager, I thought I would take him the color tabs
trick info and tell him to greatly reduce "old" bread prices with notice
that it's not the freshest, and to also replace the one expensive loaf
I'd bought.

By the following morning I'd come up with a better idea for him, he
loved it, and my idea is now a good money maker for him.
You see, this store has an in-house bakery and kitchen for the baked
sweets, salads and take-out dinners town folk have come to enjoy. I told
him to use the tab colors trick each morning to determine which loaves
to pull for his kitchen staff to then chop, season and re-bake into the
really terrific croutons now sold there.

Hah! Including the seasonings, butter, packaging and labor involved,
he's now turning a far better profit on his croutons than just the
delivered bread was showing. Plus he has quite a few happy customers
actually placing orders for them "seasoned their way" and with the type
of breads they would like. Because of my suggestion he's told me that I
am to be cost-free treated to a bag of these now locally enjoyed
croutons weekly, should I choose to have them.

Picky ~JA~