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Originally Posted by jayswin
Just a horrendous shoddy local marketing attempt. The worst part is they got rid of their quality COOP Gold products in favour of this **** when they decided to stop producing their own local product, instead outsourcing to Overwaitea (Save on Foods).
So they gave up excellent local product for outsourced crappier product and then leaned heavily on "local" marketing. Unbelievably ironic, but right in line with crappy cooperations.
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Originally Posted by jayswin
And unless anyone actually noticed the small announcement of closing fed coop production (local) they probably won't even notice that anything changed and think they're still a great locally supporting company.
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Couple month old topic bump, and an aside, but did Federated Co-op actually
produce anything locally? They closed their distribution centre, sure, but I honestly don't know what if any of the "Co-op Gold", "centsibles", etc. products were actually made locally.