How do they sell food stuffs to us?

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  • gypsy_spirit
    gypsy_spirit Posts: 2,107 Member
    Marketing a product is about selling something the public wants and downplaying any negative aspects that would keep the public from buying. Nothing new here.
  • George_Baileys_Ghost
    George_Baileys_Ghost Posts: 1,524 Member
    They got me with promises of candy and funny stories.
  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    Nothing new here.

    wow thanks for your input and taking the time out of you oh so busy day :-/. How would we survive without you :-p
  • gypsy_spirit
    gypsy_spirit Posts: 2,107 Member
    Nothing new here.

    wow thanks for your input and taking the time out of you oh so busy day :-/. How would we survive without you :-p

    You're welcome. :wink:
  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    Nothing new here.

    wow thanks for your input and taking the time out of you oh so busy day :-/. How would we survive without you :-p

    You're welcome. :wink:

    :-)
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    They exchange the food stuffs in exchange for legal tender in the country in which the transaction occurs. I suppose they could barter for other goods and services, but that's probably not the how you are looking for.
  • Galatea_Stone
    Galatea_Stone Posts: 2,037 Member
    Vegetables: First someone gets a plot of land, or has a plot of land or has gathered many plots of land into a cooperative. Then they get this big machine that digs rows. Then someone puts seeds in the ground. Then another machine sprays water and fertilizer on the seeds. Things grow. Then a bunch of people pick the things that grew, take them to a processing plant for sorting, put them in boxes and take them by trucks to a distribution center. The distribution center puts them on different trucks and drivers take them to many other distribution centers for various grocery stores. For frozen, they are cut, flash frozen, and bagged. Then the store distribution centers take the items to a store and the items are stocked on shelves. We go through, select what we want, and put it in our carts.

    Meat: Animals are raised, either in big, big fields or in warehouses, until they get big enough. Then they're taken to a slaughterhouse where they are "processed." Most are left in whole body carcass form and put in deep refrigeration trucks and moved to distribution centers. Then buyers come and take them to meat packing districts all over, and grocers, restauranteurs, etc., come and select the carcasses. Then the carcasses are either cut in half or shipped whole or cut into more manageable pieces of meat to other distribution centers, where they are further cut up. Then they go to grocery stores or butcher shops where they are further cut into serving pieces, stocked, and we put them in the cart.

    Bulk goods: Grains and other things that have grown in the soil (see Vegetables) are taken to processing plants and a magic fairy comes and sprinkles them with something called "processed food dust" and the foods are put in boxes. They're distributed to grocery stores to poison our children.

    Canned goods. See vegetables and meat and bulk goods above, except things are cooked, put in cans and then shipped.

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