just bought my usual go to brew pine belt pale at specs and it rang up 2.39 now im scared its old, do they do any kind of dating system?
Not necessarily. It depends on how a store has the UPC set up in their computer. I can't speak for Spec's, but Gabriel's sets up UPCs on cans to ring up as six-packs. If we want to break a sixer into singles, we have to put a sticker with the item (SKU) number over the barcode so the cashier doesn't ring up an individual can as six. With Spec's no longer doing singles, I would think that they wouldn't have single SKUs anymore. But to be honest, $2.49 sounds about right for a single of Pine Belt. So it's possible that it rang up as a single.
I also slowly bought this specs 2 cases of boxer, and the last 3-4 I bought rang up 10.99 so I assumed aged inventory automatically saw a price reduction. also bought a weasel rodeo for 13.99