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You don't shop at Whole Foods because of it's policies.
I don't shop at Whole Foods because I don't believe in paying $4 for a apple.
We are not the same.
It’s $6, grandpa.
It's Amazon/Whole Foods' policies that lead to charging such ridiculous prices for their items. You are the same, even if you don't realize it.
Whole Foods was charging ridiculous prices long before Amazon got involved.
True. And that hasn't changed either.
I absolutely would be willing to pay 4 or more for an apple, if it were local, and profits go to a local farm. I'm aware that means I eat in-season then too
So just drive to your local farmers market. Get a pound or two for $5 and cut out the middle man. I go occasionally, I get good deals like $1 massive sweet onions, 3 for $1 bell peppers (like softball sized ones), etc. Go early though, they usually sell before official times and are sold out within 3 hours (restaurants hit them hard)
I do
I live very close to the largest continuous fruit growing area in Europe. In-season 5kg crates go for five Euros, at the end of the season as low as one euro for 5kg on clearance. Don't expect fancy-pants new strains to go at that price, though, it's going to be Elstar or Holstein Cox.
And, fun sidenote: Out of season it's indeed more CO2-advantageous for us to import apples from New Zealand than to store them. Buy apple sauce.
Not necessarily true, it would depend on the how clean the energy source of the refrigeration is. The only other major CO2Eq emission from storage of perishables is refrigerant leakage, but in most commercial scale usages that’s really low.