In my experience working at Walmart in Fresh and a local grocery store, Driscolls is often moldy in the truck it arrived at the store in before it even gets to the shelf.
Pro Tip: Never buy “fresh produce” of any kind from Walmart. Find a grocery store that has good produce and only buy there. It’s worth the extra money.
Fresh berries are hard to ship. And raspberries are probably among the hardest to ship 1000mile/kilometers and expect them to last. And most commercial varieties of berries taste have no flavor anyway.
The farms producing the berries are local; There is no excuse for Driscoll’s fruit to be moldy before it even gets to the store here when not one other producer has this problem. It isn’t traveling even 50 miles, let alone 1000. It is not a Walmart problem. It’s a Driscoll’s problem.
As much as I’d like better produce, I’m not driving another 1.5 hours round trip to get to the store with the better produce. Not everyone has easy options.
Hey, I understand. I need to a 100+ mile round trip just to buy groceries. I still don’t buy fresh produce from Walmart because it doesn’t last long enough between the 3 or 4 weeks between shopping for groceries.
So if I can’t buy it from a good grocery store or grow it myself, I do without. I cannot afford the wastage.
In my experience working at Walmart in Fresh and a local grocery store, Driscolls is often moldy in the truck it arrived at the store in before it even gets to the shelf.
Pro Tip: Never buy “fresh produce” of any kind from Walmart. Find a grocery store that has good produce and only buy there. It’s worth the extra money.
Fresh berries are hard to ship. And raspberries are probably among the hardest to ship 1000mile/kilometers and expect them to last. And most commercial varieties of berries taste have no flavor anyway.
The farms producing the berries are local; There is no excuse for Driscoll’s fruit to be moldy before it even gets to the store here when not one other producer has this problem. It isn’t traveling even 50 miles, let alone 1000. It is not a Walmart problem. It’s a Driscoll’s problem.
As much as I’d like better produce, I’m not driving another 1.5 hours round trip to get to the store with the better produce. Not everyone has easy options.
I get frozen berries, and they’re always fine.
Hey, I understand. I need to a 100+ mile round trip just to buy groceries. I still don’t buy fresh produce from Walmart because it doesn’t last long enough between the 3 or 4 weeks between shopping for groceries.
So if I can’t buy it from a good grocery store or grow it myself, I do without. I cannot afford the wastage.