Free range chicken at Sobeys? But they said they didn't have any! So I went looking! I didn't find free range chicken, but I did find a whole free range turkey!
It exists! Normally (as I am prepared to pay a premium price for organic, free range food) I try and purchase these items. I like to vote with my dollar! But the turkey was SO BIG it would not fit in my stove or my freezer! It was huge! I couldn't justify the purchase because it was enough meat to last me a month!
Perhaps when I get a bigger stove and freezer and have a holiday feast!
Sobeys responded! A real person too, not just a generic response - good on them!
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Good Afternoon Lauren,
Thank you for taking the time to write in your request.
I have sent it off to the appropriate contacts, and have recieved a response
Currently we do not have access to any free range beef as there are no federally inspected facilities that produce the product in the format that we require.
We do have some free range whole chickens available from Nova Scotia produced in a provincially inspected plant that can be sold within this province but cannot pass over provincial boundries.
The vendor is Mayflower Farms,
and the contact email address is birdfarm@glinx.com.
Lauren, I have discussed this with another individual and I'm informed that the requests for free range meat products that are comming in are currently under review here at the office.
Please feel free to contact us again if you have any questions or concerns.
Have a wonderful day.
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Sweet - so hopefully we get some free range meat soon!
Dear Whom It May Concern,
Sobeys has always had a good selection of organic foods, especially the Compliments range of organics which are reasonably priced too! I like shopping at Sobeys, I like the layout and I can find my way around and find what I'm looking for. When I was in Sobeys last, I asked one of the helpful staff members if they had any free range chicken. The staff member said that Sobeys doesn't carry any free range meat. I understand that there are price limitations to free range meat and there may be difficulty in finding a supplier, but demand for free range meat is only going to increase. People are only going to become more aware of the environmental impacts of factory farming and it's going to affect their consumer choices more and more.
Sobeys should carry free range meats. Sobeys is ahead of the curve in Canada for many environmental food issues. I love that local products are labelled local so that I can easily purchase local foods. Organic food and meat alternatives are readily available at Sobeys - free range meat should be the next change.
Meat probably makes up the largest part of my purchases and free range chicken and beef is easily available at other stores and extremely important to me and many others. I would like to continue shopping at Sobeys but it may become simply more convenient to get all my groceries at places which supply free range meat.
Why does Sobeys not carry free range meat? Are there plans to start supplying it? Could you please allow me some insight into why Sobeys does not offer free range food?
Thank you,