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Your claim of two pounds of pork for $6 does not line up with Kroger's meat pricing.
https://www.kroger.com/pl/pork-ham/05006
But your link shows a half loin being sold for $2.50/lb, and a pork shoulder being sold for just over that.
You could easily do this if you buy on sales or close dated and freeze. Last time I bought pork it was pork loin on sale from a Piggly Wiggly at $1.89/lb. Buy several, ask the meat dept to cut them into chops if they will (or do it yourself if they won't) separate into single meal for the household portions, bag and freeze. They'll last even longer if you use a vacuum sealer.
We do basically the same with ground beef - buy a bunch when there's a sale, pre-prep some of it into taco meat, meatloves, chili, etc then portion, bag and freeze.
I guess that's true. I don't think we should be buying so much meat (if any) to begin with... I wouldn't ban it or anything, but Kroger or whoever selling nearly-expired meat for very low prices is not going to help matters. The only thing I can say for it is that at least they're attempting to avoid just throwing it out.
For most things expiration dates are bullshit that's more about profits or product flow than safety. Most things are usually more than fine for at least a few days after, and freezing meat extends it's safe life by months.
To give you an idea how much expiration dates are bullshit, if you've ever been to a Sam's they sell these enchiladas, pasta and the like that are just throw in the oven for a bit and eat and they're all made with shredded chicken. They make these things in house, and they're all chicken because the chicken comes from unsold rotisserie chickens that have been out too long that they pick all the meat off and shred. Because the expiry on them isn't actually about food safety, and pulling them off the shelf, shredding and repackaging as chicken enchiladas or chicken pasta alfredo or whatever lets them invent a new mostly bullshit expiry date for the same chicken.