Kinda False Advertising But Kinda Not

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So, this picture is not the actual package, but it is Heritage Farms I am talking about as it is an "in-store" brand of Kroger which runs Ruler Foods. Ruler Foods is basically an Aldi. It is about the same size, has about the same offerings, about the same prices, and follows the same basic concept. You even have to pay a quarter for a cart (which you get back when you return the cart of course). I bought two packages of Heritage Farms boneless, skinless chicken thighs for a $1.89 per pound. Not a bad price at all for that. The package said FRESH boneless, skinless chicken thighs. But when I picked them up they were half frozen still. This means these boneless, skinless chicken thighs were not fresh. They were previously frozen. In the United States "fresh" means fresh. Not previously frozen. It means a butcher got the meat in fresh, butchered it, packaged it, and set it out... Fresh. Unless the meat coolers were set really high (and they are not enclosed coolers), this "fresh" chicken was previously frozen, and therefore not fresh. Personally I could care less. I freeze most any "fresh" meat I buy anyway. But it IS kinda false advertising, and I am not so easily duped. I know a good price, and I still will buy it. But TECHNICALLY it was not "fresh."