Right ! If you are storing foods for long term, don't forget to rotate your stock and use older store foods first.
Some long term storage supply houses have "rolling racks" that you load from the rear, and thus you have fresh stock always at the front of your storage shelves.
There are even online DIY instructions on how to build your own 'rolling shelves" for canned food goods and beverages.
Have a pen & clipboard and a list of what foods you have in storage so that you know what you have, and a date of when you expect it to expire = no surprises !
When you go to the grocery store, note that they generally put the fresher foods towards the rear of the shelf so that the uninformed consumer will buy the older stock,
since many consumers don't shop for long term storage, and rarely look for expiration dates.
If you shop mostly at one particular grocery store, acquaint yourself with the department manger and ask on what days they get re-supplied with new stock
since most grocery stores are on a regular and routine delivery schedule for resupply, and that gets you the freshest stock.
FReeper 'Greeneyes' once commented that she had frozen meat in an old freezer which did not even have a defrost cycle,
and that meat remained fresh and had no freezer burn' despite being frozen for approximately 16 years.
Maybe she was on to something
(I still miss her sage advice !)