Originally Posted by
Riff Raff
There could be a very sharp store manager at your tire shop that purposely rotates his stock and always tries to sell the oldest tires in stock first, and routinely puts brand-new inbound tires at the extreme rear of the shelf for longivity. Thus, you could have gotten the very last 2 he had in stock from the '07 batch, and the very first 2 he had from the '09 batch (which were deliberately tucked behind the '07 models on the shelf in date sequence order). Basically; sell the oldest first, and the newest last.