why don't regular supermarkets sell goji berries?

Answer 1

I've never even heard of goji berries. Regular supermarkets probably don't even know these things exist, therefore they don't sell them. Complain to the service department, and maybe..just maybe, they'll get them in.

Answer 2

Supply vs Demand.

There isn't a huge demand for goji berries in the market. So supplying them would be wasteful for the supermarket.

Answer 3

Because people who shop at regular supermarkets don't know what the hell a goji berry is!

They just wanna get their Doritos, Coke, enriched preserved white bread, and milk with hormones. I've only ever seen gojies at Whole Foods or other similar "hippy" groceries and co-ops.

Pick me up some Kombucha and sprouted mung beans while you're there.

Answer 4

maybe because the average person shops at your run of the mill supermarket and isn't familar with them. if there isn't a marketable demographic for something then a store won't sell it, same as any other retail business. kind of why they probably don't have many surfboard shops in montana. besides, if regular grocers sold items like that, then the specialty markets and farmer's markets would go out of business (wal-martitis).

Answer 5

Marketing claims under scrutiny in Canada and the United States
In January 2007, marketing statements for a goji juice product were subject of an investigative report by CBC Television's consumer advocacy program Marketplace (TV series)[70].
In a review of medical literature pertaining to each proposed claim of health benefits from Himalayan Goji Juice[71] (Mindell and Handel, 2003), Gross et al. (2006, book chapter 6; see Article Bibliography) summarized that 22 of 23 claims had no evidence for providing a health benefit beyond that inferred from preliminary in vitro or laboratory animal research. For cancer specifically, four studies were reviewed in Chapter 4 of their book, but Gross et al. (2006) concluded the research was too preliminary to allow any conclusion about an anti-cancer effect of consuming wolfberries or wolfberry juice.
By one specific example in the CBC interview, Earl Mindell claimed the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York had completed clinical studies showing that use of wolfberry juice would prevent 75% of human breast cancer cases, a statement false in three ways:
no such project has been undertaken at Memorial Sloan-Kettering[72]
according to the National Cancer Institute of the US National Institutes of Health, no natural or pharmaceutical agent has been shown in clinical trials to fully prevent breast cancer, only to reduce its risk [73]; specifically, there are no completed or ongoing clinical trials in the United States testing the effects of wolfberries or juice on breast cancer outcomes [74] or any other disease[75] and
beyond preliminary laboratory studies[76] [77][78] and one Chinese clinical trial described only in an abstract[79], there is no scientific evidence for wolfberry phytochemicals or wolfberry juice having cancer-preventive properties (Gross, et al., 2006, chapters 4, 6).
Significant in nutrient and phytochemical composition, wolfberries are being developed[80][81][82][83][84] as new products in the functional food industry under FDA regulatory review since December, 2006 for label and marketing claims[85] as being conducted in 2007 by the European Union (above).
During 2006, the FDA placed two goji juice distributors on notice with warning letters about marketing claims. These statements were in violation of the United States Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act [21 USC/321 (g)(1)][86] because they "establish the product as a drug intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease" when wolfberries or juice have had no such scientific evaluation. Additionally stated by the FDA, the goji juice was "not generally recognized as safe and effective for the referenced conditions" and therefore must be treated as a "new drug" under Section 21(p) of the Act. New drugs may not be legally marketed in the United States without prior approval of the FDA, as stated in the letters below:
Dynamic Health Laboratories Inc. of Brooklyn, New York, May 8, 2006[87]
Healthsuperstore.com of Elk Grove, California, August 7, 2006[88]
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Answer 6

Because regular people like me go there & we have never heard of them - thus, chances are we won't buy them. It's a business not a lifestyle.

Answer 7

what's a goji berry? (see...that's probably why)

Answer 8

They are snowberries and I guess their limited area in which they grow and the fact that many people don't know about them could be the deal. But you can pick them for free.

Answer 9

I have been purchasing them from the Bulk Food store in town. As well, they are a lot cheaper.

Answer 10

Never heard of them. Try a small outlet dealing with exotic fruits