Adam Matkin, a seafood buyer at big-box retailer Costco -- which earned $11.2 billion (€10 billion) in fiscal year 2014 -- told the attendees at the US Soybean Export Council's fourth Aquaculture Investment Workshop at the University of Miami on Thursday that "aquaculture is, and will always be, a big part of" the retail giant.
He also said any fish farmers wanting to do business with the global empire must define the quality of their products "quantifiably."
Costco measures quality on attributes such as marketplace uniqueness, time and temperature, the social investment of the farmers, food safety issue and environmental quality.
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