First the maple syrup now the olive oil. Yo Quebec can you open up your black market to the rest of us?
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For anyone out of the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist
of nearly 3,000 tonnes (3,000 long tons; 3,300 short tons)
why
why
money
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I would 100% buy black market maple syrup
i hope they can find the three missing bottles
Shit I was 3 minutes too late
"Olive Oil" .... you mean mixed olive oil that is probably 50% actual olive oil mixed with cheap edible vegetable oil they could find.
There is a whole lot of controversy and debate as to what can be labelled 'olive oil' .... if you look at the food industry as a whole, it's very difficult to know exactly where your food comes from, what its made of and where it originated from or even if its made in your own country. In Canada the regulations are so easy to side step that if your food packaging costs more than the actual food it is sealing, then technically, you can say the whole product is from Canada, even if the cheap food inside was produced outside the country and you don't have to mention where the food comes from.
There is too much economic incentive and useless government enables it.
While consumer is always chasing "deals", they don't have the skill to navigate the market to ensure that the deal is actually the real product.
If you want proper olive oil, you can't buy it in a generic North America grocery store imho
...how generic would you call a Costco?
it is not a generic grocery but go on...
There are industry approved labels that try to authenticate where olive oil comes from. Yes I know it is the companies regulating themselves but their incentive is to try to sell an authentic food product and trace and track where a bottle of olive oil comes from. A bit like how they sell and market wine.
Only problem is that once you can find an authentic bottle of olive oil ... it's $25 for a litre of olive oil from Morocco or Tunisia! ... and higher prices if you want something that is actually bottled and comes from one producer or farm in Spain or Italy.
25 per liter is what the proper oil from Italy or Greece costs.
You can get them 3l tins for like 60 cheapest now. Used to be 45usd.
People need to accept that's how much real shit costs, if you are paying less, it is not 100% olive oil lol
Table oil ain't cheap... That first squeeze!
That's for verifying the origins of the oil. What if I just want to know if it's olive oil and not cut with something cheaper?
Gotta wonder how you fence a million in Olive Oil...
I would guess that they're fence is someone who works as a food distributor that resells manufactured goods to retail outlets. Someone who doesn't ask where a product came from.
They buy it cheaper than they can from the actual mfr, sell it for the normal price and everyone walks away a little bit richer.
There's a ton of food distribution companies, and they're everywhere.
Cut it was canola and sell it was off label shit to a couple of shell companies who will funnel into dollar stores and low-mid grade supermarkets
That would turn 1 million to 10'000. I doubt it.
It's the police price. So that's the number of individual bottles multiplied by the average selling price of a single bottle. The real wholesale price is probably much much lower.
So you're not fencing a million worth, you're fencing a 10th of that maybe.