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Most vegetable/fruit prices seems cheaper on the west coast. I assume because most are produced and in California and don't have the added transportation costs?
by justhw 3y ago
Most vegetable/fruit prices seems cheaper on the west coast. I assume because most are produced and in California and don't have the added transportation costs?
- ayocado 3y agoI would assume so as well. Generally produce apear cheaper in West/South although organic avocados are bucking this trend
- getwiththeprog 3y agoProbably because avocados are less popular in the Mid-North, so they sell them for less.
- candiodari 3y agoIt'd be interesting to evaluate this because unlike iPhone, fruit can trivially be substituted. In other words: the margins on them are what capitalism predicts: essentially nothing. This even goes for the aldi store as a whole. It does not apply to specialist medicine, and only to a very limited extent to Apple products. So Apple can "enshittify": extract the maximum the market is willing to bear. They can steer demand. Aldi cannot.
- ayocado 3y agoIt is also interesting how some products are just marked up for NYC only https://www.aldipricemap.com/earthly_grains_instant_jasmine_rice.html https://www.aldipricemap.com/earthly_grains_instant_jasmine_...
- rkagerer 3y agoUp here north of the border, food (along with everything else) on the west coast in BC tends to be slightly more expensive than it is in e.g. Ontario. This is an interesting site, would love a Cannuck version.
- dannyw 3y agoLogistics make up the bulk of most cheaper unit cost goods. The price a farmer gets is peanuts per unit. Less applicable to an iPhone, but very applicable to produce or even toilet paper.
- kube-system 3y ago> The price a farmer gets is peanuts per unit. Which is probably where that informal use of 'peanuts' comes from.
- refurb 3y agoI also assume suppliers are regional as well. Different supplier, different product, different prices.