>Lots of stores are very particular about rotating stock -
>the new stuff goes to the back of the pegs, the back of the shelves.

Actually alot of stores try to follow a FIFO policy at the warehouse and stockroom, but don't have the resources to do so at the display shelf level because it is so time-consuming.

By the time the BPD approached the company and the company had performed whatever tests were needed or contacted the CBI for the reports of the tests that they had conducted, it was probably too late to find out what was on the shelves at local stores because it would all be new stuff by then.

I just hope the BPD had the sense to ask for some sort of a rough estimate of 'normal shipping time' for those items. It would be strange that a manufacturer would not have atleast some idea of such things. Or atleast the main distributor would.

If it was likely that the new-tape went only to the larger orders then they know its more likely a Wal Mart store than a mom and pop store. If the geographical distribution was limited, then perhaps the intruder was indeed very careful to acquire his 'rape/murder kit' by driving some distance away from Boulder.

There may be no precise way to determine what happened to various batches of tape, but often the manager of the warehouse or the guy who drives the forklift truck have a pretty good idea of what happens, even if the president of the warehouse company does not.