Wasn’t it in the news that this year was the best year ever for apples? Why we haven’t seen it translated in the supermarket prices?
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They’re imports and energy cost has risen so making everything expensive.
We expect a year-round delivery of something that is only harvested in autumn. This means we have to pay for expensive warehouses that reduce oxygen (“controlled atmosphere”).
Coop
30p an apple isn’t too bad.
You mean the ones that are labelled from Chile?
I agree. Not only are they expensive, but most of the time, they have a mouldy taste, and they’re not crispy as they should be. I like Lidl, but they have the worst apples.
Co op is about as expensive as it gets
lil bro is looking at pink ladys and asking why they are expensive. If u want low prices, look at the cheap apples!
They don’t grow on trees !
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Without knowing where you are in the country a picture of supermarket shelves is completely worthless as a barometer of food prices in the UK.
In my local Asda you can get 6 apples for £1.67 or 12 for £3.
If you buy the essentials ones they’re a pound for six. I’m sure if I went to a green grocer or market they’d be a different price again.
Does the fact apples are cheaper for me than for you mean they aren’t, in fact, expensive?
I don’t shop at coop, but at my local Aldi and Tesco, the best (and cheapest) apples are the ‘seasonal’ apples. They’re always good, rather than buying a specific variety.
We have, you’re in a convenience store looking at expensive varieties of apples.
Just paid £2 for 6 Pink Ladies in Lidl, they had 6 mixed apples for 80p.
Ive just shopped at Morrisons and the British Apples were cheapest, I usually buy Pink Lady apples which today were from France, but I opted for a 6-pack of British Apples as they were about 80p less. They are really nice too, very similar to Pink Lady.
Royal gala at 1.60 ain’t bad?
Because you’re in the coop. Go to Aldi or lidl
Co-op
Well. Pink Ladies are (I think) imported from Australia. The other side of the planet. And are well out of season.
The home grown ones are ~~50p~~ 33p per apple, which doesn’t seem that bad considering apple season for those types of apples is over. Royal Gala apples apparently have their season between August and October. So ~~50p~~ 33p per apple doesn’t seem all that bad?
Generally speaking the average price of apples has increased 100% since 1991. Given inflation is a thing, that’s not *too* bad given that the general inflation rate has been ~174% in the same period. Which mean apples have beaten inflation by a substantial margin.
So… I don’t think they are that expensive.
Because you’re buying out of season, so they’re imported. In this case, they’ve travelled over 7,000 miles.
Posting a photo of the most expensive apples you could find in the most expensive shop in November.
Nothing sincere about this at all, pure karma farming.
Shame on everybody who engages with this as if it’s a genuine question.
Honestly, if any of you who moaned about food prices actually understood the supply chain to get a product onto your plate, you’d realise why stuff costs what it costs
Looking in coop and think thats the norm is your first mistake.
Try Tescos, Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Asda.
The main thing: That’s the co-op’s pricing.
Pink ladies are always expensive
We planted our own mini apple tree and the fruit you get from it is amazing for its size. We cut them up, stew them and freeze for the Winter and have crumbles or a fruit smoothie. We do still buy apples because our garden isn’t big enough to have more but I’d love to have more fruit trees.
Pink Lady is not an apple variety, it’s a brand.
You’re paying for the name, it’s like getting Heinz beans instead of own brand.
The Pink Ladies are from Chile and are a trademarked apple
The British grown apples are British Grown but Royal Gala is a more premium version of the gala apple
That apple was grown and harvested in Chile, has travelled over 7000 miles and you feel that less than £1 per item for all that is excessive?
Thing is. If you realise how abundant apples are at the right time then you can just pick a sack full for free bro. Such a common fruit over here
It’s called fair trade. It’s probably what we should be paying farmers and pickers.
They aren’t. Normal prices for developed countries
35p each in Sainsbury’s. Co-op are hideously expensive for everything
Firstly, you’re in the Coop.
That’s cheap compared to the apples here in Japan mate. An apple here will set you back £1,70. Yes, only one single apple.
Co op is a very expensive supermarket
Pink ladies are always the most expensive. They’re the only apples I buy and are worth it imo.
We are seeing apple orchards being grubbed up in our villages and neighboring villages here in Kent. Reason being given by the farms is that people are not buying English apples. It’s desperately sad to see
Laughs in American
Go to a market stall instead of co-op
Pink lady apples are the most expensive as the company that developed them never sold any grafts so they effectively have a monopoly
Because you’re shopping in a Co-op.
You’re in a co-op
Because you’re looking at Pink Lady apples…
I have a local market where I can buy a bowl of apples for a quid
Well these ones in particular are a brand, and in the most expensive shop. So yeah, it’s going to be a rip off. It’s 99p for six Braeburns in Aldi just now.
Yeah, I’m glad to see this post. I really know the apple process, from being grown and harvested on the farm to being processed in the packhouse and then sent to the grocery store shelves. If yu have any questions, you can ask here
The main variety we grow here is Gala, although it can also be imported from different countries. Some of the sweetest varieties worked with are Braeburn, Pink Lady and Gala, and some are even labeled as “finest apples for tesco ” There is also another variety, usually grown in France, called Granny Smith.
People should wash these apples very thoroughly. When they are packed, boys and girls sort them mostly using their bare hands, and the process is not always as hygienic as it should be. Workers are supposed to wash and clean their hands properly and keep their nails short, but unfortunately this often does not happen
During processing, workers sometimes constantly touch their faces, go on breaks to the kitchen or toilets, and some have generally poor hygiene, even showing up drunk. While sorting apples on the line, tiny particles can fall from the nose or mouth, even though workers are meant to wear hair and beard nets, which they often remove because they feel itchy. Pink Lady apples also seem to have a very strong artificial-looking colour, and the way they rot can look quite awful and unpleasant
So make sure you really do clean and wash apples very well before eating. The outer bags are usually packed by workers wearing gloves, but these gloves are often dirty and rarely washed. The Packhouse does provide gloves, but because of the cold temperature inside, workers tend to use their own gloves and do not bother cleaning them
– i have no idea why these apples are really Expensive , i had really seen how in so much amount been wasted ,
then most of time workers are from other countries (Ukraine, Romania , Bulgaria , Romania, moldova, some parts of Africa etc ) and they are in a very low wage group , i have seen and witnessed that if you works as a line leader where you admin a line of 15 people if you got a raise you will be working for 11.20p an hour and you will got a raise by 11.80 or 12pounds and hour
Christmas and New Year time workers tend to work by 18 hours and 20 hours there is no excuse that apples should be that expensive at all ,
46 comments
They’re imports and energy cost has risen so making everything expensive.
We expect a year-round delivery of something that is only harvested in autumn. This means we have to pay for expensive warehouses that reduce oxygen (“controlled atmosphere”).
Coop
30p an apple isn’t too bad.
You mean the ones that are labelled from Chile?
I agree. Not only are they expensive, but most of the time, they have a mouldy taste, and they’re not crispy as they should be. I like Lidl, but they have the worst apples.
Co op is about as expensive as it gets
lil bro is looking at pink ladys and asking why they are expensive. If u want low prices, look at the cheap apples!
They don’t grow on trees !
[deleted]
Without knowing where you are in the country a picture of supermarket shelves is completely worthless as a barometer of food prices in the UK.
In my local Asda you can get 6 apples for £1.67 or 12 for £3.
If you buy the essentials ones they’re a pound for six. I’m sure if I went to a green grocer or market they’d be a different price again.
Does the fact apples are cheaper for me than for you mean they aren’t, in fact, expensive?
I don’t shop at coop, but at my local Aldi and Tesco, the best (and cheapest) apples are the ‘seasonal’ apples. They’re always good, rather than buying a specific variety.
We have, you’re in a convenience store looking at expensive varieties of apples.
Just paid £2 for 6 Pink Ladies in Lidl, they had 6 mixed apples for 80p.
Ive just shopped at Morrisons and the British Apples were cheapest, I usually buy Pink Lady apples which today were from France, but I opted for a 6-pack of British Apples as they were about 80p less. They are really nice too, very similar to Pink Lady.
Royal gala at 1.60 ain’t bad?
Because you’re in the coop. Go to Aldi or lidl
Co-op
Well. Pink Ladies are (I think) imported from Australia. The other side of the planet. And are well out of season.
The home grown ones are ~~50p~~ 33p per apple, which doesn’t seem that bad considering apple season for those types of apples is over. Royal Gala apples apparently have their season between August and October. So ~~50p~~ 33p per apple doesn’t seem all that bad?
Generally speaking the average price of apples has increased 100% since 1991. Given inflation is a thing, that’s not *too* bad given that the general inflation rate has been ~174% in the same period. Which mean apples have beaten inflation by a substantial margin.
So… I don’t think they are that expensive.
Because you’re buying out of season, so they’re imported. In this case, they’ve travelled over 7,000 miles.
Posting a photo of the most expensive apples you could find in the most expensive shop in November.
Nothing sincere about this at all, pure karma farming.
Shame on everybody who engages with this as if it’s a genuine question.
Honestly, if any of you who moaned about food prices actually understood the supply chain to get a product onto your plate, you’d realise why stuff costs what it costs
Looking in coop and think thats the norm is your first mistake.
Try Tescos, Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Asda.
The main thing: That’s the co-op’s pricing.
Pink ladies are always expensive
We planted our own mini apple tree and the fruit you get from it is amazing for its size. We cut them up, stew them and freeze for the Winter and have crumbles or a fruit smoothie. We do still buy apples because our garden isn’t big enough to have more but I’d love to have more fruit trees.
Pink Lady is not an apple variety, it’s a brand.
You’re paying for the name, it’s like getting Heinz beans instead of own brand.
The Pink Ladies are from Chile and are a trademarked apple
The British grown apples are British Grown but Royal Gala is a more premium version of the gala apple
That apple was grown and harvested in Chile, has travelled over 7000 miles and you feel that less than £1 per item for all that is excessive?
Thing is. If you realise how abundant apples are at the right time then you can just pick a sack full for free bro. Such a common fruit over here
It’s called fair trade. It’s probably what we should be paying farmers and pickers.
They aren’t. Normal prices for developed countries
35p each in Sainsbury’s. Co-op are hideously expensive for everything
Firstly, you’re in the Coop.
That’s cheap compared to the apples here in Japan mate. An apple here will set you back £1,70. Yes, only one single apple.
Co op is a very expensive supermarket
Pink ladies are always the most expensive. They’re the only apples I buy and are worth it imo.
We are seeing apple orchards being grubbed up in our villages and neighboring villages here in Kent. Reason being given by the farms is that people are not buying English apples. It’s desperately sad to see
Laughs in American
Go to a market stall instead of co-op
Pink lady apples are the most expensive as the company that developed them never sold any grafts so they effectively have a monopoly
Because you’re shopping in a Co-op.
You’re in a co-op
Because you’re looking at Pink Lady apples…
I have a local market where I can buy a bowl of apples for a quid
Well these ones in particular are a brand, and in the most expensive shop. So yeah, it’s going to be a rip off. It’s 99p for six Braeburns in Aldi just now.
Yeah, I’m glad to see this post. I really know the apple process, from being grown and harvested on the farm to being processed in the packhouse and then sent to the grocery store shelves. If yu have any questions, you can ask here
The main variety we grow here is Gala, although it can also be imported from different countries. Some of the sweetest varieties worked with are Braeburn, Pink Lady and Gala, and some are even labeled as “finest apples for tesco ” There is also another variety, usually grown in France, called Granny Smith.
People should wash these apples very thoroughly. When they are packed, boys and girls sort them mostly using their bare hands, and the process is not always as hygienic as it should be. Workers are supposed to wash and clean their hands properly and keep their nails short, but unfortunately this often does not happen
During processing, workers sometimes constantly touch their faces, go on breaks to the kitchen or toilets, and some have generally poor hygiene, even showing up drunk. While sorting apples on the line, tiny particles can fall from the nose or mouth, even though workers are meant to wear hair and beard nets, which they often remove because they feel itchy. Pink Lady apples also seem to have a very strong artificial-looking colour, and the way they rot can look quite awful and unpleasant
So make sure you really do clean and wash apples very well before eating. The outer bags are usually packed by workers wearing gloves, but these gloves are often dirty and rarely washed. The Packhouse does provide gloves, but because of the cold temperature inside, workers tend to use their own gloves and do not bother cleaning them
– i have no idea why these apples are really Expensive , i had really seen how in so much amount been wasted ,
then most of time workers are from other countries (Ukraine, Romania , Bulgaria , Romania, moldova, some parts of Africa etc ) and they are in a very low wage group , i have seen and witnessed that if you works as a line leader where you admin a line of 15 people if you got a raise you will be working for 11.20p an hour and you will got a raise by 11.80 or 12pounds and hour
Christmas and New Year time workers tend to work by 18 hours and 20 hours there is no excuse that apples should be that expensive at all ,