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I really like Hampton Creek products (I'm vegetarian, and my girlfriend is vegan, but Just Mayo is a high quality product regardless of whether you eat eggs or

I really like Hampton Creek products (I'm vegetarian, and my girlfriend is vegan, but Just Mayo is a high quality product regardless of whether you eat eggs or not). I'm honestly excited to see it show up in local stores, and have been known to go to stores that I know stock it specifically to buy it. But, this is pretty sketchy behavior. I guess investors will be forgiving if the growth of the company ends up catching up with the faked numbers, which seems to be what's happening, but I dunno if the stores will be as quick to forget. Then again, if demand catches up quickly, they may not mind, either.

jdoliner 10y ago
> but I dunno if the stores will be as quick to forget. Why would the stores be mad about this? It seems like Hampton Creek has basically sent them a jar of Mayo for $5 and then turned around and bought it back from them for $10. (I'm making these numbers up but I'm assuming the stores aren't selling this Mayo at a loss.) Stores should be happy to do that all day long. edit: I guess part of the reason they did this was to deceive the stores into giving them more shelf space. I could see that rubbing stores the wrong way.