I was at my neighborhood produce store today, and a supplier was unloading some fruits. This is what they said, paraphrased below ...
Shopkeeper : This stuff is fresh.
Supplier : Yeah. You know, we are shipping the rest of it to [an up-scale grocery chain store] at the end of the street.
Shopkeeper : Why would they want your stuff? I thought those snobs only deal with [non-foreign, organic, fair-trade] suppliers.
Supplier : Guess what? They are just going to sell them as "organic" and charge three times more than you!
Shopkeeper : Ha, then I should bottle some tap water and tell them it's organic. Those stupid people will buy anything in droves the moment they see the word "organic" written on it.
Then they both laughed.
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