So Stoneyfield Farm makes some of Trader Joe's yogurt

[jenjacobs]

You may or may not realize but Trader Joe tries to keep it a secret who makes their private label products. Will today I figured out Stoneyfield Farm makes some of their yogurt because they had sign announcing the recall for Fat Free Blueberry yogurt dated April 13-26. I told the cashier that was funny because Stoneyfield made the same announcement a few weeks ago. She just smiled!

Anyway I thought it was funny because I'm always trying to guess which brand is private labeled by TJ! I buy their soy creamer and always wonder if it is Silk.

[OHeather]

It's not all that uncommon that the major manufacturers make the store brand products, as I'm sure you're well aware. My mother worked in the corp. office of a major grocery store, once upon a time, and she told me about many of the matchups. (I definately don't remember now, since it was years ago). I also had a prof. in college tell the class that he worked @ a packaging facility, where the product was the same, but the boxes the product went into was different. He also said that the major brands had a different standard than store brands. So for example, BirdsEye may have allow 1 in 10,000 imperfections, while TJ's may allow 3, 6, or more per 10,000.