US store chain cuts sales of food from China

Yahoo News ^ | Feb 12, 08 | Staff

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US grocery chain Trader Joe's said Monday it would stop selling food imported from China due to customers' concerns about the products' safety.

"Our customers have voiced concerns about products from this region and we have listened," Trader Joe's spokeswoman Alison Mochizuki said in a statement.

"All single ingredient food items sourced from mainland China are scheduled to be out of our stores by April 1," she said.

"We will continue to source products from other regions until our customers feel as confident as we do about the quality and safety of Chinese products."

[3D-JOY]

Wegman’s !!!

How I miss it.

The greatest home-owned chain I have ever had the pleasure to shop.

When in Fairfax, DC area, I can get to two new ones and a Trader Joe too. I will have to remember to thank them.

Can you find any Mandarin Oranges NOT from China? I can’t.

Suburban Rochester, NY until retirement.

[FR Class of 1998]

That’s Whole Foods you’re thinking of.

[null and void]

LOL!

It was the word “exclusively”...

[null and void]

light-headed-nauseus-splitting-headache-tingling-skin-think-there's-a-very-real-chance-you-just-might-die-should-I-bite-the-bullet-and-call-an-ambulance-now feeling?

And again an hour later...

[AFreeBird]

No!

They have some good food there, and have you ever heard of "Two Buck Chuck"? It's a wine brand (can't recall the vineyard off hand) they carry, maybe a little over $2 a bottle depending on where you are, but actually a pretty good wine.

A lot of organic foods and other stuff you might not find at your local Kroger or whatever big chain store you shop at.

If you have one in your area check them out. Hell, them actually listening to the concerns of their customers over Chinese products ought to be reason enough to wander in for a look see.

[Enterprise]

[glock rocks]

Is a trend developing?

Hope so. Must be time to make another Trader Joe's order.

[hope]

One more good reason to do business there.

[mylife]

I think you are thinking of “Crate and Barrel” or some such place

[Vicki]

That is good news and I hope others follow.

[HonestConservative]

kewl.

[thefactor]

in other news, trader joe’s increased its prices by 72% due to rising costs.

[Enterprise]

"Charles Shaw is known in local circles as "Two Buck Chuck," said shopper Mercy Malick."

'Two Buck Chuck' Wine Cult

[Enterprise]

"Isn’t Trader Joe’s frequented exclusively by metrosexual hippie elitists?"

Hee hee hee. I have shopped there for a long time now and I aint NONE of those!

[sweetiepiezer]

Thanks for the ping JACK.

This is a start anyway.

[AFreeBird]

Thanks. Chuck Shaw... I’m terrible with names.

[AFreeBird]

He also controls more than 30 square miles of California vineyards. And he thinks big. Next he plans to take on invading Australian wine makers.

"We're going to take 'em on. Slap 'em around as hard as we can!" he said.

Ha ha. I like that.

Although I do like some of the Aussie wines. Black Opal at around $5~$7 at the grocery is pretty good. I like their Merlot. Not too dry.

[Blogger]

Ping

[Dengar01]

Good! There is a Trader Joe's by me. I will start shopping there now.

We are being poisoned by this crap from China.

[Theo]

AWESOME!!!!