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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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 Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:16 am Post subject: Nature Valley Granola Bars |
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Well I've been bugging Costco to bring this back, but it seems very unlikely. I met with one of the buyers today. The problem is that the product is made from GMO in the US and General Mills doesn't want to import the product anymore. I was told they could import them from Spain (which is not GMO), but they would cost 40% more and they don't want to do that.
So RIP granola bars..... |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:33 am Post subject: |
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That Red Door shop lady told me no one buys them so she gave up on granola bars. I wanted granola bar 2 weeks ago. Gimme warm oats, honey, and a warm smiling thank you are a welcome sir! Not cold hearted bitter rudeness adjummas! OK, she lacks a supply channel due to powers above her. Forgiven, but I still need my grains outside of polished nutrionless sticky white rice. Sure it powered a people through 5000 years, but offers me little value over life saving calories in the event of famine and is most boring food. These old unskilled sales people will only provide you with a severe lack of service; not an open mind to learn how to do business and then do it with a sincerity. They just expect you to pay them money as if you owe to them while being rude and sometimes surely. It's disgusting in a street fish market. Gross old ladies. No wonder why many Koreans say they don't consider them women as strange as that really sounds.
Whoever told you they could import from Spain was really sincerely trying to help. Go ahead, pay 40% more if you really want it. You are in a place where most any food is very rare, but anything possible due to new money and development allowing supply should you be willing to pay the high prices.
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| That Red Door shop lady told me no one buys them so she gave up on granola bars. I wanted granola bar 2 weeks ago. Gimme warm oats, honey, and a warm smiling thank you are a welcome sir! Not cold hearted bitter rudeness adjummas! OK, she lacks a supply channel due to powers above her. Forgiven, but I still need my grains outside of polished nutrionless sticky white rice. Sure it powered a people through 5000 years, but offers me little value over life saving calories in the event of famine and is most boring food. These old unskilled sales people will only provide you with a severe lack of service; not an open mind to learn how to do business and then do it with a sincerity. They just expect you to pay them money as if you owe to them while being rude and sometimes surely. It's disgusting in a street fish market. Gross old ladies. No wonder why many Koreans say they don't consider them women as strange as that really sounds. |
Dude, are you ok? |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| That Red Door shop lady told me no one buys them so she gave up on granola bars. I wanted granola bar 2 weeks ago. Gimme warm oats, honey, and a warm smiling thank you are a welcome sir! Not cold hearted bitter rudeness adjummas! OK, she lacks a supply channel due to powers above her. Forgiven, but I still need my grains outside of polished nutrionless sticky white rice. Sure it powered a people through 5000 years, but offers me little value over life saving calories in the event of famine and is most boring food. These old unskilled sales people will only provide you with a severe lack of service; not an open mind to learn how to do business and then do it with a sincerity. They just expect you to pay them money as if you owe to them while being rude and sometimes surely. It's disgusting in a street fish market. Gross old ladies. No wonder why many Koreans say they don't consider them women as strange as that really sounds. |
Dude, are you ok? |
I think my Kranium is growing larger by the minute. I think there are many attackers of the messenger on this site. There is a severe lack of camaraderie in this expat community. Haters. Attack, because you are unhappy over being lonely and unhappy, but too proud to admit this fact so you attack. You are many. This unfriendliness and lack of camaraderie is largely due to bad polluted unfriendly environment so I forgiv how asinine many of you really act towards each other and me. Also many of you are fresh out of college so you get disturbed by all this and especially so when you read all about it. This is all so annoying. Why do we go teach English to some kids 10,000 miles from home who mean nothing to our people and our future while their sales people most suck at what they do? |
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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:43 am Post subject: |
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Home Plus has been selling granola bars lately, they are called 'Barun Diet'
It is written in Hangul, but you shouldn't have a problem finding them. I found them by the rice last week, but a month ago they were by the cereal (i guess the K's cant figure out what to do with them)
They are like 8,000 for 10 bars. |
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Yucca Girl
Joined: 03 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
I think my Kranium is growing larger by the minute. I think there are many attackers of the messenger on this site. There is a severe lack of camaraderie in this expat community. Haters. Attack, because you are unhappy over being lonely and unhappy, but too proud to admit this fact so you attack. You are many. This unfriendliness and lack of camaraderie is largely due to bad polluted unfriendly environment so I forgiv how asinine many of you really act towards each other and me. Also many of you are fresh out of college so you get disturbed by all this and especially so when you read all about it. This is all so annoying. Why do we go teach English to some kids 10,000 miles from home who mean nothing to our people and our future while their sales people most suck at what they do? |
Umm... I think if you had presented your frustration over the lack of available granola bars, you probably would have gotten a lot of positive comments with people commiserating about not being able to find comfort foods from home. Instead you went off on a tirade about how adjumas are terrible sales people and "gross". Personally, the adjumas at the little black market shops were always really nice to me. Sometimes, they would give me extra stuff for free, and if I was looking for something and they didn't have it, they would try and get it for me so I can't really relate to your personal experiences. This doesn't make me a hater, unfriendly or unhappy. It just means I have had different experiences than you have! |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Yucca Girl wrote: |
| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
I think my Kranium is growing larger by the minute. I think there are many attackers of the messenger on this site. There is a severe lack of camaraderie in this expat community. Haters. Attack, because you are unhappy over being lonely and unhappy, but too proud to admit this fact so you attack. You are many. This unfriendliness and lack of camaraderie is largely due to bad polluted unfriendly environment so I forgiv how asinine many of you really act towards each other and me. Also many of you are fresh out of college so you get disturbed by all this and especially so when you read all about it. This is all so annoying. Why do we go teach English to some kids 10,000 miles from home who mean nothing to our people and our future while their sales people most suck at what they do? |
Umm... I think if you had presented your frustration over the lack of available granola bars, you probably would have gotten a lot of positive comments with people commiserating about not being able to find comfort foods from home. Instead you went off on a tirade about how adjumas are terrible sales people and "gross". Personally, the adjumas at the little black market shops were always really nice to me. Sometimes, they would give me extra stuff for free, and if I was looking for something and they didn't have it, they would try and get it for me so I can't really relate to your personal experiences. This doesn't make me a hater, unfriendly or unhappy. It just means I have had different experiences than you have! |
That's just how I experience them in the market. They have an attitude like I owe them, they try to push spoiled fish on me regularly, they will sit with nothing I want calling out to me in a demanding manner as I walk by, and then just get all stressed out and mean acting when I buy something. They then get loud and surely if I ask for 1,000 won discount off of what is already over priced such 10,000 for a tiny 1/2 pound sea bass.
Yes, there is a lack of granola bars, but I found European granola such as this, "knusper crisp," and muesli in the lower level of Shinsegae where it's an upscale indoor European style market. Prices are highest, but it's nice.
I guess I mention ajumma sellers, because I'm also referring to the Red Door lady, the only place that did have the Nature Valley granola bars. She doesn't act bad to me, but her prices, lack of winning to negotiate, and selfishness are insulting. She's another one demanding the money as if the world owes her while doing the least amount of work. Well, I'm deeply disappointed in these sellers lacking supply and then jacking prices up with no, "hello, good day sir, how are you? How can I help you?," but just cold bitterness in them. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Costco won't import the ones from Spain as the price is too high. They are looking into alternatives though and I may have some say in it since I've been quite vocals about my displeasure at them pulling the granola bars.
I would appreciate it if you guy would refrain from hijacking my thread. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
Costco won't import the ones from Spain as the price is too high. They are looking into alternatives though and I may have some say in it since I've been quite vocals about my displeasure at them pulling the granola bars.
I would appreciate it if you guy would refrain from hijacking my thread. |
What about the other bars that are sold at Costco? The name escapes me, right now, but they're loaded with bran. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Fiber One and I told the buyer those things are crap. They are well aware of how displeased I am over them taking the granola bars away. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
| Fiber One and I told the buyer those things are crap. |
I wonder if anyone learned, the hard way, to read labels a little more closely. Yeah, they are loaded with bran. 3-4 of those and things get interesting.  |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| Ha, you guys who need the fiber aren't going to be able to poop! |
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PigeonFart
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:08 am Post subject: |
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I used to buy them (i think the same brand as you referred to) in the Foreign Food Store in Itaewon, Seoul. However, i haven't seen them there recently. They were in a large box of about 48 bars costing 23,000 won.
About 6 months ago i saw them being sold in individual packets in a Hyundai Dept. Store.
what is "GMO" ? Is that anything to do with Genetially Modified ? |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Why not just eat a bowl of granola? |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Homeplus often sells Tesco's muesli, which is pretty nice.
Occasionally, the foreign food market in Itaewon as Nature Valley bars. I don't know the price, as I usually stick to muesli in unsweetened goat yogurt, but I've seen them a few times. They often have Fiber One granola bars, as well. I hope that this helps! |
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