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Pre-cut fruit is supposed to save time, not require a payment plan.
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When convenience starts feeling like luxury, something is seriously wrong.Â
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A $40 fruit tray is not about fruit. It is about what normal life costs now.
BRIEFING
Grant here. We all know Whole Foods is expensive. There's a reason why it goes by the name "Whole Paycheck" instead. But honestly, when you need a Klarna monthly payment plan for a grocery store fruit tray, we've crossed a strange line. Let’s break it down.
There's a video of a guy holding a plastic container of pre-cut fruit at Whole Foods and reacting to the price tag. It's literally forty dollars for some melon and grapes. He jokes and says, "Let me go sell the car," which obviously is an exaggeration, but seriously, who is paying this much money for cut-up fruit?
SOURCE
American shows the cut up pre-packaged fruit is so expensive they may need to finance it
This one package of fruit is over $40
Based on 2019 prices, this is over a 100% increase, double to price is used to cost
According to grocery store data pre-cut packaged fruit has gone up on average 40% since 2019 and at grocery stores like Whole Foods, as much as over 100%
American shows the cut up pre-packaged fruit is so expensive they may need to finance it
This one package of fruit is over $40
Based on 2019 prices, this is over a 100% increase, double to price is used to cost
According to grocery store data pre-cut packaged fruit has gone up… pic.twitter.com/dK4hC2alXw
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DEBRIEFING
Yes, inflation is still a thing, but there's really no way to justify this kind of price markup.
Sure, fresh produce is more expensive. As the BLS reported, fruits and vegetables were up 4.0 percent over the past year, and the USDA’s food price outlook also shows fresh fruit prices still steadily increasing.
But it's important to note that the fruit tray is not just fruit. It's labor, packaging, shrink, store overhead, branding, and convenience. And surely, these grocery stores like Whole Foods are betting that some exhausted person will pay the premium because they don't have the time or energy to cut up a honeydew.
Americans aren't just noticing higher prices anymore, but they're seeing that even the easy little conveniences now come with a luxury-tax vibe, and that's the real problem here.
NOW YOU KNOW
You're not broke. The basics got insanely expensive.
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The problem is going to Whole Foods in the First place, they are Overpriced on just about everything, the last time I went into one of their stores the prices on basics were outrageously disgusting, better to go to walmart, BiMart, Winco, or just the fruit stand by the road than blow your money at Whole Foods, they arent even healthy foods anymore, they deal with pesticide-sprayed foods as well as GMO foods.
Ditch em!
People like this are just stupid and want to embellish everything they can these days since Trump is in office. These items, such as pre-cut and fully pre-prepared foods and meals, ALWAYS cost more and are the result of people being LAZY, and not single and always “on the go”.. Want to save money, buy a bag of apples, which costs 5 bucks, eat them whole for taste and health reasons, if you need to peel it, then do it, takes a few minutes but really, eat them with the peel on for vitamins. Same with all fruit, buy it wholesale and take it home and do what you want to it, you will save 3/4 the cost of this stupid rip off store. People today just like bringing attention to themselves with mass media, it’s nothing new that trying to make ends meet when you are young and single is hard. In 1989 making $20,800 a year I had to juggle a car payment, rent, a few credit cards ( used for living expenses) and all the basics AND car insurance through NJ JUA,( Junior Underwriters Assoc) which was legalized extortion. It had a monthly cost higher than my car payment! But we didn’t have an IPhone, or Pad, or Android or Internet to let out our griping to obtain some temporary celebrity over fake indignation to gain instant empty headed notoriety. Face it, life’s not harder, the medium from which to bitch about it got easier, and more chic, I guess..