There's a chance someone may have tossed these seeds per supplier recommendation. Germ may be bad, package weight/contents may be mislabled, who knows. At this point in the season, I seriously doubt it.
Many smaller retailers buy a display of seeds from a supplier, or keep their display in storage and restock with fresh packages the next year. They will discount the seeds as the season progresses because they own them. Even at 5-10 cents a pack, for them it beats the dumpster.
Many mega-retailers basically get seed racks on consignment from a supplier. Supplier gets paid for a % of retail price per packages sold. If the retailer discounts the price of the packages down to next to nothing without the supplier doing so they may loose money. Even if they do discount them, it comes to a point that the shelf space is more valuable for something else.
Odds are the reason those seeds are $2/pack+ retail and not half of that is because some retailers end up throwing half of the rack out. When a home improvement store tosses all kinds of board games they stocked for Christmas instead of donating them to a school, nursing home, etc., that is wasteful. When they toss shovels/spades with nothing wrong with them other than the stickers that have the manufacturer's name on them are tore up, that is wasteful. Multi-pack items "not labeled for individual sale" are tossed when the outer packaging is damaged. I could go on, but my point is we all pay for this wastefulness. Even if we don't (think we) pay for it at the store, the landfills aren't getting any less full.
Plenty of tax write-offs are to be had for throwing out good merchandise. Claims can be made against a shipper for damaging merchandise. Not alot of profit will be had marking it down considering the space it takes up can be used for more profitable merchandise.
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