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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 04:31 AM Jul 2016

More on outsourcing

There is a new Aldi's, so I went in for a look.

It's mostly a warehouse model, with house-label cans, boxes of food, bags of fruits and vegetables, their brands of paper products, etc.

There was a relatively small freezer section and in it I saw "wild-caught salmon, product of USA" for $5.99 a pound.

But when I read further, I found:
Processed in China
Packaged in China

It wouldn't surprise me if "wild-caught" meant dumping out fish-farm salmon into the waiting maws of Chinese-crewed ships...

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More on outsourcing (Original Post) nitpicker Jul 2016 OP
Distinguishing between outsourcing and offshoring can be useful. merrily Jul 2016 #1

merrily

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1. Distinguishing between outsourcing and offshoring can be useful.
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 06:45 AM
Jul 2016

But, yes, I am now starting to suspect the "wild caught" descriptor. It is a way to get customers to pay more and how many consumers can tell if seafood was wild caught or farm raised?

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