GRR. One more reason to despise WalMart. Bastards!

[konnichi wa]

Okay, I was in Walmart today, needed milk & a few other items---not enough stuff to justify the 60 mile drive to a decent grocery store, the WM is just 5 mi. away.

I wandered into the aisle with canned fruit, a product which I hadn't bought for many years but I noticed 'fruit salad' which I liked as a kid and figured what the hell, I will just get a can for something different.

Heading for the checkout, I decided to call home and ask my partner if we needed anything else while I was there. I mentioned the canned fruit and he said "be careful, I saw something on TV about that stuff coming from China"
I thought he was shitting me but I looked carefully at the label...and read "Product of Thailand"!!!

So I went back and looked at a bunch of other varieties (the fruit salad was the WM store brand), here is what I found
(I actually purchased these & brought them home, not to eat but to research) items with UPC:


GV Tropical fruit salad: 7874237124 Product of Thailand
GV Mandarin oranges: 7874209459 Product of China
GV Pineapple chunks: 7874236969 Product of Phillipines
Dole Pineapple chunks: 7874238090 Product of Republic of Phillipines
GV No Sugar added Mixed Fruits: 7874237061 NO Country of Origin on label!
I found a few others that I did not buy, from Mexico and Indonesia.

Now can anybody explain to me just how the hell it makes any kind of sense to import this stuff from Asia when we grow it in the USA????

:grr: :mad: :grr: :mad:
God I hate this kind of thing!!!!!!!!!