Check dates when you buy at Foodland

[Carey]

The Keaau Foodland has had this problem from way-back, even when it was "Puna [not-so] Fresh' we would get products that were way past their sell=by date, sometimes by many months...you at least had a marked down price.. We stopped going there, even though they are so close to us, simply because they would frequently sell food way past the sell-by date at full price.

They truly have had & continue to have, very poor shelf management...and I think that would also go to the point of poor management...period...
I am truly surprised how each of the chains on the east side handle products nearing the sell-by date...you can tell which stores have very good product management by how they handle these items....and the Foodland/SacknSave/Malama chain has the worst management, by far...

Add: old thread on the Keaau store:
http://www.punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9411

[leilanidude]

@punatic007..

Seconds of research would have given you the answers.. and shown that she is also now on the board of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...73710.html

[ericlp]

They go to foodland because, we don't have a costco. If we had some REAL competition, maybe these stores would get it together?

But it's people like KTA and FoodLand that vote NO on any other business coming on this side.

Bad service and keep the jacked up prices. Business as usual.

[Punatic007]

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Originally posted by leilanidude

@punatic007..

Seconds of research would have given you the answers.. and shown that she is also now on the board of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...73710.html

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You guys are missing the point. Is it a local business if the owner does not live in Hawaii? Your link does not tell us where she lives. But it does say she runs several retail stores (150) on the mainland.

[leilanidude]

I am not missing any point at all. It is more of a local company than most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_F..._Companies

Corporate Headquarters:
822 Bishop Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96801

[Punatic007]

That's your opinion. The quality of their supermarket food especially in the bakery is of the lowest legal quality available. A diet of concentrated liquid sugar and highly refined brominated flour over time is just the ticket for becoming diabetic. Walk into any of their Hawaii stores and that's what you see first, massive selection of very low quality and health robbing bakery items. That and the stress of purchasing ridiculously over-priced food is not exactly in the best interest of the people of Hawaii. Unless you have food stamps and don't care.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

GROWN NOT FLOWN!
GROWN NOT FLOWN!

What? The CEO of Foodland was born here?
Really? Foodland doesn't sell more local food because they can't find enough local growers?

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard

[kalakoa]

Foodland doesn't sell more local food because they can't find enough local growers?

Maybe the local growers can't compete with cheap imported food?

"Round and round we go..."

[leilanidude]

punatic007 - you still miss the point. It is a local company with headquarters in Honolulu that employs over 4,000 people in Hawaii, with a CEO that also lives in Honolulu and has numerous ties to local Hawaii charities.

[Lee M-S]

I get the impression that stores don't buy local because it means more work; they would probably need several people to search out and work with farmers, receive and check shipments, keep individual records for each vendor.

From the store's viewpoint, it is simpler and probably cheaper to contract with a mainland supplier that sends a bunch of whatever they've got.

I try to shop farmers markets for local grown, but even there you often see imported produce.

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