>>>>”All single ingredient food items sourced from mainland China
What the heck is a “single ingredient food item”? Poisoned dog food has more than one ingredient. So do candies made with date rape drugs. I suppose the fish grown in black mucky ponds loaded with thousands (millions?) of human contraceptive pills might be “single ingredient”.
Recently I bought a bag of spicey peanuts “sourced” from Singapore (not from Trader Joe’s though). I checked very carefully. Wasn’t until I got home that I found they teeny weeny type “Product Of China”. To the trashcan they went.
TJ’s needs to be a bit less obtuse with this policy. Something like “We don’t sell foods with ingredients from China.” Period.
Shrimp comes to mind. It's about the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
TJ’s needs to be a bit less obtuse with this policy. Something like “We don’t sell foods with ingredients from China
But that would impact the bottom line. You don't expect a big company to actually put money at risk as part of a campaign to hoodwink the customers, do you?