r/YouShouldKnow • u/hardasjello • 5h ago

Education YSK: Taylor Farms Iceberg Lettuce is sold under many different names

Why YSK, Taylor Farms sells their iceberg lettuce to many food stores using different names and you don’t need explosive diarrhea.

Here are some of the different names and stores that sell Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce

Earthbound - Taylor Farms

365 - Whole Foods

Simple Truth - Kroger/Fred Meyer

O-Organics and Signature Select brands - Safeway/Carrs

Greenwise - Publix

Simply Nature - Aldi

Marketside - Walmart

Good and Gather - Target

H.E.B Store brand

Trader Joe’s store brand

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u/EntertainerSuper8933 3h ago

Also, you can't trust many farmer's markets not to just buy produce at the HEB and dump it into their own containers.

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u/YouStoleTheKishka 3h ago

As a produce seller, if you’re going to any farm stand with any variety of goods… they’re buying from the same wholesaler as HEB. We sometimes even go to our local HEB (our version of HEB) if our stock is low, and tack on a little margin. We’re linked to a farm too, and yep - we sell their crops, but we’d have nothing for sale 80% of the summer if we weren’t also buying from wholesale.

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u/EntertainerSuper8933 2h ago

OK, I guess I can't fault you for the economics. But farmer's markets aren't like the old fashioned farm stands we used to see growing up (I'm old) where during corn season, they'd be out there selling corn. During tomato season, tomates, peach season, peaches, watermelon season, watermelons, you get the picture. Now you, as a produce seller, are trying to compete with HEB and have everything including things that don't even grow on your continent available year-round

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u/YouStoleTheKishka 2h ago

For sure, I totally get that. And I openly admit when you’re buying from a farm stand, you’re paying more for the “vibes” and nostalgia. Also, you’re paying to not have to deal with the rest of the grocery store. We also rotate and check all the produce we put out. A real scumbag seller will put bad produce in the bottom of the basket. If you ever catch that, don’t ever go back there. So there’s an argument that we offer the service of making sure you’re getting only decent stuff, although I think it’s easier to pick and choose quality stuff at a grocer where it’s all spread out. 

Thing is, people don’t realize that it’s impossible for a small farm family to survive on just selling their crop at a roadside wagon. It was impossible back in the 1950s too, and that’s why you saw a lot of family farms sold off or repossessed. One bad yield and you’d be financially ruined. Or, those farms you went to kept that wagon as a thing for their kids to do while selling wholesale most of their crop. It’s why this is just a summer hobby for me, cause I enjoy getting out of the big city where I moved to and bullshitting with my friends while we hawk veggies. Gives me a nice break from my white collar office job 😂

That same friend’s family owns a large farm (large for the region) and even that’s a hobby rather than full-time income. 

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u/takenbylovely 2h ago

The solution to that is frequenting markets with strict producer-oniy rules.

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u/AcademicOlives 1h ago

Maybe not in Texas lol. But in my liberal hell-state the farmer's market is regulated and vendors have to prove they grow their own stuff.