Today while browsing in the supermarket, I saw that there were some cranberries on sale ad the brand appeared to be Ocean spray. Funny enough, I know there is an Ocean Spray cranberry farmer around the area and I thought it would be those that people were buying. But funny enough, on all the packaging details it stated that it was a product from the US. So, the assumptions is the cranberry I would be eating isn’t the local one.
It’s crazy to think about but we do it everyday where it probably makes way more sense to just handle everything locally in that regards. But I guess with all l the moving parts it probably requires everything to go through a certain system first where they then redistribute it after. If that is the case, it reminds me when companies have too much money where they end up just passing around duties to departments that are so far away when someone in the same building could have just handled everything.
Example, they need to find talent where they hired an agency who happens to be out of the province and finds one there. The company then pays for all the travel expense to bring that person over when they could have easily used someone local. The argument is usually something may be cheaper to buy overseas as an example. But in these cases, I would imagine the logistics makes it way more expensive.