Kodak no longer following "2 year rule" for expiration dates?

[Alan Edward Klein]

Alan, are you referring to their retail store stock, or their warehouse? Ironically, when a particular film becomes scarce, B&H raises the price instead of lowering, further reducing the rate of turnover. I guess this is meant to be a means to preserve at least a token quantity of something somebody really wants and is willing to pay a premium price for. But I have gotten some OLD film from them in such circumstances in the past. The current Kodak sheet film selection is fairly small in comparison to former days, so the rate of turnover at BH appears to be pretty rapid, with distinct intermittent outages. And they've recently been pretty good at differentiating outdated stock from fresh stuff.

Don;t know anything about their warehouse or frankly the store as of late. I was in their store maybe 15 years ago and none of the film I saw was refrigerated. Maybe I missed some of it. I'll send them an email and ask what they do currently.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Yep. You probably missed seeing 95% of it. They ship out of their warehouse, not from the convenience store counter. Same with Freestyle; they'll ship from store inventory if they must, but ordinarily ship directly from their warehouse instead. I haven't asked either about their exact storage method.