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TRADER JOE’S BANS CHINA (KINDA)

Miles ClementsMon. February 11
 

The LA Times reports today that Trader Joe’s has listened (kinda) to its customers and will be pulling single-ingredient items from China. That includes things like frozen spinach, garlic and the like. But as the Times notes, multi-ingredient products pulling from China as well as other sources will remain stocked on store shelves. Per the Times :

“We feel confident that all of our products from China meet the same high quality standards that we set for all of our products,” Trader Joe’s spokeswoman Alison Mochizuki said in a statement. “However, our customers have voiced their concerns about products from this region and we have listened. 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.”

Looks like the store’s so-called Trader Ming can still claim some Chinese lineage. For now, anyway.

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    I want powdered donuts! nude naked powdered donuts!

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    Posted By oliver miller on February 12th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

     

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    Trader Joe’s Spokesperson Wins “Product” Placement Contest

    PASADENA—A spokesperson for a Southern California specialty grocery store chain is America’s best spokesperson, according to “No Comment: The Journal of American Spokespeople.”

    Trader Joe’s spokesperson Alison Mochizuki used the word “product” five times within just three sentences in a recent corporate statement, landing her a first-place finish in the journal’s much-anticipated “product placement” category.

    NoCo, as it’s known in the public relations business, celebrated Mochizuki’s 6% “product”-to-other-words ratio, calling it “lean and efficient, which by no means is meant to cast aspersions on the other entries which were, of course, also very, very fine in their own ways.”

    “I was just in the zone, I guess,” Mochizuki told NoCo. “You can overthink these things. I find it best to empty my mind of all thoughts, and then just let the words talk themselves.”

    Mochizuki told “No Comment” she was prouder of the fact that she’d honored both her company’s customers and the country they fear most. “As speech product goes, that was my toughest product–producing that kind of ‘on-the-one-hand-on-the-other’ quality we pursue day in and day in this particular industry segment. Product.”

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    Posted By Will Swaim on February 12th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

     

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