Date:   4/2/2008 2:15:03 PM ( 16 y ago)
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Yeah, really. I wonder if that particular ethic is what helped to put the "most favored" component into their nation's status from the perspective of Bill Clint er um U.S.A. Inc er um World Trade Organization?

Back to the processed brand/label business, here are two labels for which I would like to know their disposition. If anyone knows or has pointers to some relevant information, please let me know. The local HFS has a pretty good assortment of food items as well as personal care products as well as the whole smash of supplements that fall loosely under the umbrella of vitamins/minerals/herbs/homeopathic formulas. As it turns out, this small store is run by a homeopathic physician. Anyway, this store has a pretty wide selection of bottled juices and other beverages, to include apple juice, sold by the gallon, in glass jugs. Plus or minus the actual quality of product inside the jug, I particularly like the practice of the glass jug. Safety concerns notwithstanding, these gallon jugs are handy to re-use for other purposes after the initial product is gone. Prior, I had been getting apple juice under the brand of Santa Cruz "organic" (that is what the label indicates, verbatim, in big, black, splashy font). The label also indicates 5 (count them) 5 distinct organic terms suggesting various levels of organic certifications have been met, including the separate "seals of organic approval" by USDA, as well as the International Association. This certainly helps me to understand the cost factor which, somewhere between  Santa Cruz and the HFS operator, is undoubtedly being passed onto the consumer. All the noise on the label gives me reason to be curious just how good the product is. Anyone know? The HFS sells this stuff for a bit over $12 per gallon. From observation coupled with years of retail experience, I suspect that this HFS has a general markup practice of 100%, meaning, whatever an item costs them, they mark it up 100% and that is their retail selling price. I'm not being critical of this, just voicing an observation of something that, from experience, I know many retailers worldwide across many categories of products (from produce to computers and everything in between) do the same thing. In light of the fact that the U.S. Dollar - FRN, is slowly approaching the value of toilet paper, this helps to put in better perspective the tendency for people to exclaim "oh my, food is getting to be so expensive!". Things are not really getting more expensive, the dollar just keeps getting less expensive. Anyway, just recently this HFS started carrying a second brand of apple juice; McCutcheons also sold in a glass gallon jug for just under $6. The label does not highlight nor indicate nor seem to be exploiting any of the seals/certifications like the other brand does, and contains no catch terms for "organic" this that or the other anywhere that I can see, although I have not yet inspected it with a magnifying glass, which I intend to do shortly. It does indicate "unfiltered, pasteurized apple juice". This reminds me that the other brand does not state either way if it is organic in the true/original sense of the word in this context  - IE> not pasteurized. For 12 bux a pop, one would think that this entitles the purchaser to be informed whether or not the product with 5 different levels of organic approval is pasteurized or not. Just in comparing the color of the liquid side by side with the Santa Cruz brand, Santa Cruz juice has a more "appealing" color. Personally, I am not all that wrapped up in color. Both products indicate containing minimal preservatives. Anyway, if anyone knows about these 2 brands, I'd like to see/hear what you know. Thanks.

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