harryopal1
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Stone the crows. Bloody Hell and Fair crack of the Whip.
I have been buying an Indonesian made peanut butter. They seem to have a problem with mixing as usually there is a layer of oil at the top of each jar, with softish product under the oil and the paste becomes thick and almost unspreadable at the bottom. I usually stand the jars on their heads and over a period that seems to help. Not expensive so it doesn't really bother me.
My Indonesian wife had gotten used to an Australian peanut butter. living in Townsville, and came home a couple of days ago with a similar looking jar from another supermarket. Same lable colouring as the Australian product and to cap it all off named "Skippy" brand. What could be more Australian? I was then interested to see if it were produced under licence in Indonesia. A line of tiny print ran vertically and almost invisibly to one side of the main lable. I had to use special, lapidary 3 x times magnifying glasses to read the tiny print. "Made in China."
I looked up a Woolworths - Australia web site when checking which brand Skippy was copying. And then found that the "Australian" product had this:
Mind you Woolworths is the company that were shamed when caught out selling "freshly baked bread" which was actually made in Israel, frozen and then defrosted in Australia two weeks later. Caught out the company was fined and had to place apologies in Australian newspapers. Their apology said, "We are sorry if we inadvertently misled our customers."
Bloody hell. Are their any ethics in business?
I have been buying an Indonesian made peanut butter. They seem to have a problem with mixing as usually there is a layer of oil at the top of each jar, with softish product under the oil and the paste becomes thick and almost unspreadable at the bottom. I usually stand the jars on their heads and over a period that seems to help. Not expensive so it doesn't really bother me.
My Indonesian wife had gotten used to an Australian peanut butter. living in Townsville, and came home a couple of days ago with a similar looking jar from another supermarket. Same lable colouring as the Australian product and to cap it all off named "Skippy" brand. What could be more Australian? I was then interested to see if it were produced under licence in Indonesia. A line of tiny print ran vertically and almost invisibly to one side of the main lable. I had to use special, lapidary 3 x times magnifying glasses to read the tiny print. "Made in China."
I looked up a Woolworths - Australia web site when checking which brand Skippy was copying. And then found that the "Australian" product had this:
Mind you Woolworths is the company that were shamed when caught out selling "freshly baked bread" which was actually made in Israel, frozen and then defrosted in Australia two weeks later. Caught out the company was fined and had to place apologies in Australian newspapers. Their apology said, "We are sorry if we inadvertently misled our customers."
Bloody hell. Are their any ethics in business?
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