Target no longer selling store brand soup in cans

[Tradd]

I was stocked up and hadn't looked for ready to eat store brand soup at Target for a few months. I was astonished this weekend to find that Target no longer sells it in cans, but only in the tetrapaks (little boxes). Amount of product inside seems to be the same.

I just found it odd.

[Azure]

I haven't noticed that at my store yet. People worry about the chemicals, bph?, in canned food products.

[shadowmoss]

I miss having my 'canned' goods in the pouches like it was in Honduras. Refried beans, tomato sauce/paste, all kinds of stuff was in pouches instead of cans. I liked it much better.

[Tiam]

I haven't noticed that at my store yet. People worry about the chemicals, bph?, in canned food products.


I think this will be the new marketing trend. I'm seeing it more often as a selling point. From a storage point of view, I wonder about the shelf life?

[Tussiemussies]

Canned items are lined with a material that leeches unhealthy chemicals into the food. The lining is supposed to keep the food fom having a tin flavor. I'd be so happy to see foods being sold in boxes. Seems target is doing the right thing!

[Float On]

I'd be so happy to see foods being sold in boxes.

I like the boxes too.....but what are they lined with?

[Blackdog Lin]

Slightly off topic (though I agree I want (bph?)-free packaging - they need to quit with that crap) - but DH is punky the last couple days and NOTHING I can cook is right according to him and so I went to the local grocery to just get juice and a couple cans of name-brand condensed soup for him.....

.....and they were $1.99/can! For a simple can of chicken noodle soup! (vegetable beef too). I could make 2 gallons of homemade soup for not much more than that!

Am I showing my age? :)

[pony mom]

Now that I'm working in a small grocery store, I see the benefit of those little packs. Like, they don't get dented! And you can fit them more easily on a shelf.

[Azure]

I just worked in the soup aisle the other day and yep our MP brand ready-to-serve soups are all in boxes. So is the broth. I like the boxes. I've started seeing some tomatoes in boxes also.

[Tradd]

Someone asked about the shelf life. On the boxes of soup I bought recently, the best by date is early 2016.

[Packy]

You can just bet the reason they are doing it is cause the boxes are cheeper, not better. Several months ago, I had a can o' beans for dinner that had a best-by date back in 2008. They were fine, I think. I'm still alive, and botulism is usually fatal. Well, isn't it? Hope that helps you some. Thankk Mee.