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The Case of the Mysterious Date-Nut Bars (2007)
- degenerate 8y ago"Is the shop owner around?" "Yes" "Can you ask him the name of the company that provides these?" "Sure [...] it's called XYZ" "Thanks" ^ That's about how long this useless story needed to be. The author ran around town bothering dozens of cashiers that don't do the purchasing.
- amelius 8y ago> "Can you ask him the name of the company that provides these?" "Sorry, we keep our suppliers secret. It's strategic information."
- hammock 8y agoNo such business does this.
- criddell 8y agoBusinesses that do white / private label goods often don't want to say who the original manufacturer is. For example, my daughter has a Cyberpower PC gaming laptop and it took some digging, but we found the original Chinese manufacturer and from there were able to track down drivers and other things.
- hammock 8y ago"Such business." A local deli, on the rare possibility that they sell their own white-labeled baked good, would probably tell you where it came from anyway. The fig bar in question was not a white labeled or private label good anyway. But if you asked the guy where the greek salad, potato salad and pasta salad come from he would tell you. A retailer is also different than a direct seller/manufacturer (your example).
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI love how he bothered cashiers for months before it occurred to him to pick one up and look at the label.
- sandebert 8y agoThe writer is a she.
- m0llusk 8y agoStealth brands are the strongest brands.
- joveian 8y agoOr not... it looks like Awrey was sold in 2013 at the last minute before selling off its assets. It also went through bankruptcy in 2005. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130220/NEWS01/130229992/awrey-bakeries-sold-buyer-to-rehire-many-workers http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130220/NEWS01/1302299...
- WiseWeasel 8y agoNeeds a (2007). Dates might have gone out of fashion again in the interim. :P
- connoredel 8y agoI moved to SF two years ago after living in NYC for 4 years. When people here ask me if I miss New York, I tell them I miss aspects of it -- the bars, restaurants, nightlife, art, fashion. But increasingly it's the little things about daily life in New York that I miss. I saw a video on Reddit of someone doing something dumb in the subway (a daily occurrence), and I almost cried. Similarly, this story choked me up. I had also seen those bars. I always figured they were meant for some other anonymous New Yorkers, not for me.
- nartz 8y agoHahah I love this! Glad you were able to track it down and share.