Cilantro Is Not Local To Ohio When Grown In California

It’s not that Nancy expects all of the produce sold at her local Kroger to be grown locally. That’s not possible, especially if you like things that can’t be grown in Ohio. For example: bananas. She does expect that when the company labels produce as locally grown, that it is. The store has some trouble with this concept.

“The first time the cilantro was from California,” she wrote. “The second time it was from Texas.” She brought the discrepancy to the attention of store management. Their response was, approximately, “oopsie!”

We contacted Kroger corporate to find out what their definition of “local” is–when we hear something back, we’ll update this post.

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist