Sounds like a good deal and a rather enterprising store manager. I'm not a fan of lima beans and my wife doesn't like corn except for corn-on-the-cob and cornbread.
I wonder what the local Sysco office is doing these days? I may have to give my former neighbor (he runs the office) a call next week.
The reports about milk and other items being dumped are distressing, but the problem is that the items aren't in a producer channel that normally deals with consumers, so they don't have things like packaging that meets labeling requirements and is consumer-sized. An experienced baker probably wouldn't flinch at at 50 pound bag of flour, but neophyte bakers would.