Aug
23
2010
Loblaws’ Grown Close to Home Foods…Aren’t
Images by B. Alter: Would you rather shop here...
Way back in 2007, TreeHugger Lloyd went to Loblaws, Canada's largest supermarket chain, looking for fresh local food in July and he found: cherries.
It's three years later and things have changed--sort of. Now they have a little booth at the front of the store called "Grown Close to Home" and they are selling Ontario peaches and potatoes and cucumbers. But right behind it they have their cherries from the USA and pineapple from Costa Rica. That's a rather broad definition of local. We aren't the only ones noticing this...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo: Kelly Rossiter
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