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Safeway switches to reusable containers for shipping produce
Comments on Stories, posted by Editor, Pleasanton Weekly Online, on Jun 27, 2012 at 11:53 am

Pleasanton-based Safeway Inc. has announced that it has switched to using reusable product containers rather than corrugated boxes to ship many types of produce from the farm fields.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 7:21 AM

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Posted by Not an exclusive Safeway customer, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 27, 2012 at 11:53 am

Be sure to wash your produce now !!


Posted by Mort, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood, on Jun 27, 2012 at 12:39 pm

"Today, many types of produce travel from the field, to the distributor, to Safeway's product distribution centers and to the final store location in RPCs."

If produce aged well as a good Single Malt, I'd buy produce in grocery stores all the time.

But I think I'll continue getting it from the Farmer's Market.


Posted by Hot off the presses, a resident of the California Reflections neighborhood, on Jun 27, 2012 at 7:13 pm

Must be a slow news day.


Posted by Bob, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood, on Jun 29, 2012 at 10:19 am

I'm with you Mort. Might as well buy frozen vegetables. They probably retain more of the vitamins in the frozen form than when they sit for God knows how long from the time they are picked until they are in the shelves.


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