I don’t know about these but premium fruit can be substantially better. Seeded varieties of grapes are like little sweets. I believed grapes were bland and boring till I tried extra special ones. This got me trying lots of premium fruit in my supermarket.

Strawberries and raspberries are better, but don’t match home grown. Apples are very variety dependent. White fleshed necterains are significantly better than most peaches. Extra special melons seem to have a much smaller window of availability but are worth getting when they’re available, so much better than the usual watery disappointment.

I think premium fruit doesn’t have much social currency or ‘clout’. It isn’t branded and no one knows your having anything different. The only difference is the taste. So it’s not very sustainable for supermarkets to stock and sell more expensive fruit if it doesn’t have a market. So I would try them, especially if you haven’t enjoyed that fruit in the past.

As far as the price. If you really stop to think about the about of effort cultivating and shipping that fruit to you. The price is redicously cheap. Try growing a pineapple, and then take it thousands of miles away.