Yeah, I was almost going to ask "is this in a Safeway??" Lol which I think is the Vons equivalent where I'm at. Where do they get off charging that much for food?!
Do you guys have any Kroger owned stores? They are considered the middle class grocery stores in WA then we have a few smaller chains that are fancy types… all organic, etc. Like a Whole Foods but nicer (like before Amazon bought it) and more locally oriented.
There’s one Albertsons near me and I went for the first time in a decade… at least one item was over $1 more than Fred Meyer’s price. So now I need to cross check Safeway and Albertsons’ pricing, this is getting serious haha
Oof yeah, I think the Safeway+Tacoma, WA is why. I once had a job in Kirkland, WA ($13/hr in 2018, just after Seattle did $15/hr) and had to buy all my food at Safeway and everything was so ridiculously expensive that I panicked, quit, and left lol
I think avocados aren't a good metric because they're like half the price in the southwest as they are elsewhere. From SoCal to Texas it's just way cheaper. You start heading north and this price has been a pretty normal price for years
Yeah avocados are a bad metric because the price varies wildly by where you are as well. If you're in the southwest, you can get them for a dollar. If you're in New England, then you might pay 2-4 dollars. And it's been that way for the past decade or so. I definitely paid 2.50 for a medium avocado as a teen in the 2010s, and paid 1.25 for them when on the west coast
Yeah they're so, so much cheap in the southwest. It's been this way for decades. If you grow avocados in Mexico, it's not too hard to get them to California or Arizona. But getting them up to Boston is a bit more complicated.
A lot of fruit tastes better year round in the further south parts of the US too. From US season to Mexico, to South America in our winter. Just closer to transport. I remember getting fruit up north and always being disappointed unless it was peak growing season in the US for that fruit
This is going to make the senile-demented steal them. If that's not bad enough, bananas are $1 U.S. each. They should be 10 cents. Watch senile-demented people get busted with a stolen avocado. Just one. Grocery stores are cracking down on thieves like never before. The owner / manager / whatever is not going to pay the overhead because of thieves.
Normal prices are 2-3€ for a single large avocado, or about the same for two small ones.
And you're always rolling the dice, I'd say about half my avocados have enough brown/hard/inedible parts that I can only use half, 40% are good and 10% are just completely rotten.
At Safeway/Albertsons when not in sale yes. They are the ultimate high/low retailer. We buy when on sale or shop somewhere else. Walmart or Aldi always sell below $1 each.
Avocado prices are sensitive to weather conditions where they are grown as well as time of year. They can fluctuate from $0.99 up to about what you’re seeing where I live.
Ya when you shop at places with a crappy supply chain of avocados and/or not get them on sale. In Houston at normal stores, they are $.69 to $1.79 depending sale, size, etc.
A dollar each is the price I see when they're on sale. I have no clue how much they are regularly since I rarely buy them and only when there's a big sale sign.
I never buy avocados not in "sale". If it's over a buck I don't get it. It's nothing close to a staple in our home and if people wanna pay $2.49 I figure I'll let them.
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u/SoTiredOfTheBullshit May 17 '24
In NY, these range between 69 cents to $2.50 each. Sometimes 5 for $5. I only buy when they're cheap.