6mo ago

Over $1 million in olive oil stolen from Montreal trucking company

www.ctvnews.ca

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First it was egg thieves, now olive oil. What's next, bacon bandits?

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- For anyone out of the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist
  
  of nearly 3,000 tonnes (3,000 long tons; 3,300 short tons)
  why
- I would 100% buy black market maple syrup
i hope they can find the three missing bottles
- Shit I was 3 minutes too late
"Olive Oil" .... you mean mixed olive oil that is probably 50% actual olive oil mixed with cheap edible vegetable oil they could find.
There is a whole lot of controversy and debate as to what can be labelled 'olive oil' .... if you look at the food industry as a whole, it's very difficult to know exactly where your food comes from, what its made of and where it originated from or even if its made in your own country. In Canada the regulations are so easy to side step that if your food packaging costs more than the actual food it is sealing, then technically, you can say the whole product is from Canada, even if the cheap food inside was produced outside the country and you don't have to mention where the food comes from.
Gotta wonder how you fence a million in Olive Oil...
- I would guess that they're fence is someone who works as a food distributor that resells manufactured goods to retail outlets. Someone who doesn't ask where a product came from.
  They buy it cheaper than they can from the actual mfr, sell it for the normal price and everyone walks away a little bit richer.
  There's a ton of food distribution companies, and they're everywhere.
- Cut it was canola and sell it was off label shit to a couple of shell companies who will funnel into dollar stores and low-mid grade supermarkets
- It's the police price. So that's the number of individual bottles multiplied by the average selling price of a single bottle. The real wholesale price is probably much much lower.
  So you're not fencing a million worth, you're fencing a 10th of that maybe.

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