That's a great question.
Yes, it can be used for larger, whole-muscle, or larger big hams or big turkey roasts and things like that, which are for food service and then sliced later. It does work for those just as well. But as soon as you open the package, all bets are off. The product is safe in the package; it can have a best-before date of August, but if you open it today, you have a few days to consume that product.
So yes, it would work very well, but as soon as that product is opened, especially on the food service side where there's a deli or you're at an old age home or at a hospital where they're opening that package and then slicing part of it today, part of it tomorrow, or the day after or what have you, then it depends on how clean and aseptic and what their hygiene standards are.