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RobinA

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17. Yeah, But...

Tue Feb 3, 2015, 01:29 PM

Feb 2015

It has to be what you say it is. My guess would be that the retailers (as an organization) didn't have a clue what was or was not in the stuff. Walgreens contracts with XYZ company for ginko and somebody either at the XYZ plant or a middle man, slaps a Walgreens label on the purported ginko and off it goes to the Walgreens store.

Walgreens then gets in trouble because they've got their ginko label in alfalfa. So then they have to sue XYZ for selling them alfalfa instead of ginko. XYZ probably then says that Walgreens knew it was alfalfa...and it's off to the races.

Stores do not make the stuff that has a store label on it.

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