Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada
by madeofpalk on Saturday October 04, 2014 @01:09AM
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> Even companies like Apple allow other channels to sell their products.
Not really. Well, Only channels that Apple allows will are allowed to resell their products. Apple does not take too kindly to the 'gray market' products and unauthorised resellers.
Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada
by chaostheory on Saturday October 04, 2014 @05:33AM
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> Well, Only channels that Apple allows will are allowed to resell their products.
That's not true. There's a huge grey market for Apple products. Just look at Ebay. When you go international it's much bigger.
> Apple does not take too kindly to the 'gray market' products and unauthorised resellers.
They may not be happy about it but they don't sue anyone over it as long as the sellers aren't trying to pass counterfeit merchandise as Apple products, or fake Apple stores as official Apple stores.
Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada
by lucaspiller on Saturday October 04, 2014 @02:01AM
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Here in the UAE there are a tonne of unauthorised resellers. Mostly importing products as they are cheaper and don't come with local restrictions (FaceTime is blocked on iPhones bought in most of the Middle East). Apple has authorised resellers, an online presence, and next year are opening a retail store, so you'd think they would try and do something about it...
> "Pretty much anything I can buy in the U.S., I can legally import into Canada. There are permits required for meat, seafood and dairy. We stick to vegetarian packaged nonperishable items."
> "I would prefer Trader Joe's accept my long-standing offer to follow guidance on how they would like me to operate," Hallatt says in an email."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/30/217210915/bag...
It's really difficult to change the quality of unopened, non-expired, pre-packaged food. The more I read about this, the less reasonable the company behind Trader Joe's seems. Even companies like Apple allow other channels to sell their products.