Bought a "wild caught" salmon fillet with a fake label sticker

I paid $14 for a salmon fillet at a store near Portland that had a big "wild caught" sticker plastered right over the barcode. When I got home and peeled the sticker off, the original label underneath said "farm raised" from a supplier in Chile. Now I'm wondering how many other packages have hidden labels like that. Has anyone else caught a store doing this sticker swap trick?

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logan5611mo ago

My buddy works at a seafood counter and he told me they once got a shipment of "wild Alaskan" salmon that was actually from a farm in Canada. The distributor just put new labels over the old ones and sent them out anyway. He said the store manager didn't even care because the profit margin was way better on the fake wild stuff. Makes you wonder what else is getting the sticker treatment.

baker.holly1mo ago

Oh man, that's so sketchy lol. Always buy your fish from a place where you can actually see the whole thing before they cut it, that's the only way to be sure.

the_drew1mo ago

People get WAY too worked up about this stuff. Like, unless you can TASTE the difference between farmed salmon and wild salmon in a blind test, does it even matter? I've eaten both and can't tell them apart when it's cooked properly. Also, that story from logan561 sounds like the kind of thing a buddy says at a bar after a few beers. Managers care about making money sure, but they also care about not getting sued or shut down.