Zoe’s Bars Hit By A Car in Bellingham, MA

Fri. July 18 at 3:49pm - Voice Mail on Zoe Foods Answering Service

“…Yesterday on Rte 126 in Bellingham I hit a package that was in the middle of the road. I didn’t spot it right away. It was not an empty box like I thought it was. It was a box of your Zoe’s Energy Bars. Didn’t hurt my car, really. I’m not complaining about it. But it made an awful mess in the road which I had to kind of clean up. Some of the boxes weren’t damaged. I was going to give them out to some kids because I don’t think you want them back because the expiration date was July 5th. If you do want them back, let me know. There’s probably about 6 or 10 boxes that weren’t damaged with 12 [bars] each in them. If there is any problem with my giving the remainder of them out to kids let me know. I don’t know what happened, guess they fell off the back of a truck. Well, let me know. Bye.”

This was an unusual customer voice mail to have received! I called the gentleman back and he was lovely. After chatting for a couple of minutes he asked me which stores near him carried Zoe’s Bars because he had eaten the Peanut Butter Paradise Bar and really like it. I told him that I’d be happy to send him a couple of fresh bars for him to try and appreciated his cleaning up the mess in the road.

So how did a case of Zoe’s Bars get into the middle of the road in Bellingham, MA? Beats me – but not Detective Tim who runs Zoe Foods’ operations. Tim reasoned that these bars were being picked up by the brother of someone who works at our Franklin, MA warehouse who was going to use the expired product for livestock feed. Good deduction Detective. Those’ll be some very healthy hogs with all that fiber, protein and omega-3s!