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Malcom \Mal\ Reynolds Malcom \Mal\ Reynolds is offline
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Default Sticker shock at the store again!

In article >,
Robert Miles > wrote:

> > At costco, the pre-sliced apples are 6 8oz packages for about 7.95 which
> > works
> > out to about 2.65 per pound which is at least 2.5 times the cost of whole
> > apples. If you are getting bags that contain the equivalent of 12 apples,
> > which
> > is highly doubtful, that's about 50cents per pound which is highly doubtful

>
> Have you bothered to check if she's from an apple-growing area where
> the farmers cut up their rejects so they can at least get some money
> from them?


Maybe you can explain how cutting up rejects is going to improve sales? In any
event wouldn't it have a higher profit margin to NOT cut them up and sell them
for less?