we ran some backstock yesterday and got the carts looking pretty good, but it only lasted one day. Today's truck came and was loaded with distro's of lots of stuff---not stuff that will sell. We got several cases of select varieties of k-cup coffees, when I scanned them, we had a BOH of 30, we sold 1 in a month. Other varieties sold slightly better, but it's still not good for keeping backstock down. The one we have 30 of has an expiration date of mid-2017, so if we're lucky, it'll be marked down and sell, but I'm thinking it won't. Instead it'll sit on our backstock cart, taking up the entire back end. That sure is good!
I don't think you can do anything about distros. I just keep a pallet for crap like that. They sent me a ton of folgers gourmet coffee bags and dunkin donuts, we sell maybe two a month. Up on the racks it goes...