Lucky to Live at Lakeside

Yesterday, I stopped at a fruit and vegetable market in Orillia Ontario (Country Produce - Orillia) and noticed that they were selling avocados at $2.99 EACH.  At today's exchange rate - that is $2.29 USD or 37.5 pesos EACH ! ! ! !

Yikes! Wonder what restaurants are charging for guacamole?

Yesterday Hass avocados at the local tianguis were going for 15 pesos a kilo.

viajero wrote:Yesterday Hass avocados at the local tianguis were going for 15 pesos a kilo.

Is that about 8 aguacates for a US buck?

Prices are often based in (great) part on the demographics of the area and sometimes the particular buyer.

If no one will buy my widgets for $1.00 when the cost me $0.25 each, then I'll sell them for less until I hit close to a break-even point.

If I'm in an area where someone wants/needs a widget, I'll ask $2.00 and bargain down to $1.50.

I also wonder when I go into a market/store and prices are not marked, if the price fluctuates with the status of the buyer. I've seen it happen here.

Prices also depend on how far you have to transport your widgets. If you make your widgets in Mexico and sell them in Canada, the price is higher than if you sell them in Mexico. If your widgets are fragile and need special handling, more expensive still. And if those widgets need to be refrigerated or frozen, then that is another story.

Of course unmarked merchandise will be sold at varying prices depending on the "status" of the buyer. If that bothers you, only shop where prices are marked.

oatsie wrote:Yesterday, I stopped at a fruit and vegetable market in Orillia Ontario (Country Produce - Orillia) and noticed that they were selling avocados at $2.99 EACH.  At today's exchange rate - that is $2.29 USD or 37.5 pesos EACH ! ! ! !

Were they from Mexico or California? Just curious.

Only grade A produce is shipped to places like Canada especially stuff that is delicate or has a short shelf life.

The berries that are picked here are in refrigerated trucks within hours headed north and only the best goes NOB. The berries that we get from the local vendors is what doesn't make the grade. Still good stuff but won't draw top dollar which is what you have to get to afford to ship the produce.

I can generally tell how the US is doing by looking at the local markets. Grade A Bell peppers have 4 lobes and meet certain height/width/weight standards. You can find plenty of 3 lobe peppers here but when you see 4 lobe, you know that they are not selling all the grade A stuff. They taste exactly the same but a 3 lobe pepper sells for half what a 4 lobe sells for. You can watch globe tomatoes the same way. When they are plentiful, the US is not buying all of them.