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"Is the shop owner around?"

"Yes"

"Can you ask him the name of the company that provides these?"

"Sure [...] it's called XYZ"

"Thanks"

^ That's about how long this useless story needed to be. The author ran around town bothering dozens of cashiers that don't do the purchasing.

> "Can you ask him the name of the company that provides these?"

"Sorry, we keep our suppliers secret. It's strategic information."

No such business does this.
Businesses that do white / private label goods often don't want to say who the original manufacturer is. For example, my daughter has a Cyberpower PC gaming laptop and it took some digging, but we found the original Chinese manufacturer and from there were able to track down drivers and other things.
"Such business." A local deli, on the rare possibility that they sell their own white-labeled baked good, would probably tell you where it came from anyway. The fig bar in question was not a white labeled or private label good anyway. But if you asked the guy where the greek salad, potato salad and pasta salad come from he would tell you.

A retailer is also different than a direct seller/manufacturer (your example).

I love how he bothered cashiers for months before it occurred to him to pick one up and look at the label.
Needs a (2007). Dates might have gone out of fashion again in the interim.

:P

Thanks; added.
> Dates might have gone out of fashion

I don't believe so... have you ever heard of Larabar or RxBar?

There is also Fig Bar from Nature's Bakery.

I moved to SF two years ago after living in NYC for 4 years. When people here ask me if I miss New York, I tell them I miss aspects of it -- the bars, restaurants, nightlife, art, fashion. But increasingly it's the little things about daily life in New York that I miss. I saw a video on Reddit of someone doing something dumb in the subway (a daily occurrence), and I almost cried. Similarly, this story choked me up. I had also seen those bars. I always figured they were meant for some other anonymous New Yorkers, not for me.
Hahah I love this! Glad you were able to track it down and share.