Ever visit an inner city, hole-in-the-wall grocery store?
You will see rows of items with dust covering them.
You go in and “buy” items and get cash instead. The owner rings up the sale as groceries with a markup for himself.
No goods change hands.
The gov’t rarely audits these stores to verify.
Oh... so, that explains why those products never seemed to move off the shelves. I just thought those places were used as a front.