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Foodland is more local than Safeway whose parking lot is always full. Also, have you seen the bakery department in Safeway? So much sugar! Please avoid the Hilo Shopping Center P-007, as the mere sight of Lanky's front window might give you a shock.
Seriously though, sugar is a major component of the American diet. Good for you for figuring that out and getting yourself away from it. You are tilting at windmills if you think some corporate outfit is going to change their recipe any time soon.
You want to eat local food? Try the backyard.
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Back to original subject... This was a USE OR FREEZE BY date, not a SELL BY date. It's different.
I dont really care who owns the store; I just dont want to get sick.
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I dont really care who owns the store; I just dont want to get sick.
Dairy products at J Hara Store have expiration dates 2-3 weeks further into the future, which clearly demonstrates that it is possible to stock fresh products.
My theory is that Foodland stock does a tour of duty on Oahu and/or in Kona before rotating onto Puna shelves....
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Yuck...you might be right.
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Originally posted by Kapoho Joe
Foodland is more local than Safeway whose parking lot is always full. Also, have you seen the bakery department in Safeway? So much sugar! Please avoid the Hilo Shopping Center P-007, as the mere sight of Lanky's front window might give you a shock.
Seriously though, sugar is a major component of the American diet. Good for you for figuring that out and getting yourself away from it. You are tilting at windmills if you think some corporate outfit is going to change their recipe any time soon.
You want to eat local food? Try the backyard.
Joe, there are different types of sugar and the liquid sucrose which Foodland uses as well as the other barely legal cheap cheap cheap ingredients are bottom of the barrel. I just don't see how a "locally" owned business who "cares" about Hawaii with charity involvement(tax write offs), doesn't know or care that diabetes is an epidemic here. And would be so incredible greedy about profits before health. Why not choose to bake with ingredients that are not so harmful? They don't need to use the best but barely legal ingredients due to direct health hazards to humans? Where's the local love?
The original owner lived here, the daughter is very business oriented and branched off into a mainland conglomerate. No link here proves she lives in Hawaii. Most likely she has homes everywhere.
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I just don't see how a "locally" owned business who "cares" about Hawaii ... And would be so incredible greedy about profits before health.
Stores sell what consumers ask for, otherwise they would not make enough of a profit to stay in business. Education of the public is not something they are equipped to do. I received an email the other day with excerpts from a European study on shopper preferences. Here are a couple of findings:
Price and Convenience Rule
• Consumer behavior frequently strays from specified intentions (ex. in a survey by YouGov, 79% of British adults thought it important to buy locally sourced , but only 30% purchased any in the last week)
o Consumers aren’t going out of their way to buy local, and prices need to be comparable to other options (in terms of price and purpose)
• Local products will benefit in times of food scares (unless directly involved in scandal)
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HOPTE, the consumers of Hawaii are not choosing poor quality ingredients, most folk don't know the difference. That decision is 100% up to the Foodland corporation. They can make the same baked good with a good conscience and less harmful ingredients, but have clearly chosen to put profit over the health of the local population.
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They can make the same baked good with a good conscience and less harmful ingredients
Generally better quality ingredients cost more money, and that was one of the findings in the Price and Convenience Rule. People usually don't want to pay more for a product:
prices need to be comparable to other options (in terms of price and purpose)
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have clearly chosen to put profit over the health of the local population.
This may come as a shock, but Foodland didn't invent the strategy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22...75711.html
a whopping $17 billion of the total $260 billion the government spent subsidizing agriculture went to just four common food addititives: corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch and soy oils
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^^^That's just lovely. Wow.
