• SoJBEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      Turns out produce is pretty cheap when the government subsidizes you and you don’t have to transport it across the pacific for processing, and then ship it back across the pacific, including all the truckers, docks, rail yards, and warehouses in between until it finally makes it to your local grocery store!

      • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        4 days ago

        And then the local grocery store wages, including corporate and management, building leases, equipment and IT, lighting…

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
      131·
      5 days ago

      It’s probably all avocados that are going to go bad overnight if they don’t sell them.

      You buy 15 for a dollar and you don’t care if 10 go bad before you can eat them.

    • will_a113English
      9·
      5 days ago

      I have an avocado tree. There have been a number of times I had to give away dozens of avocados.

    • NeatoBuilds@lemmy.todayOPMEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      Depends on the stand, some don’t require purchase and some you have to buy like a basket of strawberries or whatever else they have in season

  • marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    5 days ago

    See this on the roads around Fallbrook, California, but even when it’s 5 for $1 they are usually still pretty small and days away from ripening. Putting them in a paper bag with a cut up apple helps to speed that up.

  • kabi@lemm.ee
    5·
    5 days ago

    Someone please tell me that isn’t an apostrophe before the S.

      • kabi@lemm.ee
        4·
        5 days ago

        Didn’t know it had a name! I’m not from an english speaking country, so I wasn’t aware of the phenomenon!

        I refrain from ranting about the unbecoming apostrophe’s the seemingly hundred’s of times I see it here on Lemmy every day, but I figured this greengrocer was fair game…