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03-16-2016, 08:00 PM
Canadian grocery store is in hot water over pre-peeled avocados
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Don't mess with the Internet's avocados.
A woman was shopping at her local Sobey's grocery store in Thornhill, Ontario when she*spotted pre-peeled, halved avocados on sale.
SEE ALSO: Orange you glad Whole Foods chimed in on the pre-packaged fruit? (http://mashable.com/2016/03/05/whole-foods-twitter-orange-gate/)
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The friend of the shopper, Christine Kizik, posted about the avocados on the grocery store's Facebook page, saying she was "surprised and disappointed" that the store would stock a product with seemingly unnecessary packaging.
"Avocado's have their own perfect, compostable, wrapping. Adding packaging to an avocado is strange to say the least. This is wasteful and I'm curious about the reasoning," Kizik wrote. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/16/avocado-plastic-packaging/)
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Don't mess with the Internet's avocados.
A woman was shopping at her local Sobey's grocery store in Thornhill, Ontario when she*spotted pre-peeled, halved avocados on sale.
SEE ALSO: Orange you glad Whole Foods chimed in on the pre-packaged fruit? (http://mashable.com/2016/03/05/whole-foods-twitter-orange-gate/)
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Image: facebook, christine kizik
The friend of the shopper, Christine Kizik, posted about the avocados on the grocery store's Facebook page, saying she was "surprised and disappointed" that the store would stock a product with seemingly unnecessary packaging.
"Avocado's have their own perfect, compostable, wrapping. Adding packaging to an avocado is strange to say the least. This is wasteful and I'm curious about the reasoning," Kizik wrote. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/16/avocado-plastic-packaging/)
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