I bought a very few groceries today and needed just one red onion. I do
like to keep extra onions but I only ever keep one extra of those as we
generally only eat them raw on salads.

I happened to see the organic ones first. $1.68 per pound. This seemed
high but I don't buy those too often and I don't usually pay attention to
the price. I just know that for yellow onions, I pay less than $1.00 per
pound and usually quite a bit less. And that at Target, regardless of
color, an onion is only $1.00. Granted, they may not have the particular
color that you want on any given day. Anyway... I don't normally buy the
organic ones to begin with. So I walked over to the regular ones and was
stunned to see that they were $1.78 per pound! And yes, I did double check
those prices.

I have since looked online but even more confusing. Albertsons has now
partnered with Safeway to deliver groceries. And the price of the delivered
groceries is now, according to some law, supposed to be exactly what they
charge in the store. I received an email just a few weeks ago telling me
that I could be part of a class action lawsuit for this very reason and that
I needed to do nothing as they had records of my purchases and contact
information. If I were owed money, they would send me a check. Anyway...

When I look online, I have to go to the Safeway site to check prices. And I
only see three listings for red onions. Red Italian Flat for $1.49 each,
Organic Red for $1.89 each, and Red Boiler, prepacked in a one pound package
for $3.29. Oddly enough, the stock photo they used is the same for both the
flat and the organic.

At any rate, I bought the smallest, good looking organic one that I could
find. I didn't look really well at the regular ones as they cost more but
several of the organic ones looked like they had a rotten spot or were
quickly about to go that way. I particularly dislike buying organic onions
at this store as they wrap a piece of yellow tape around them to boast of
their organicness and this makes it all the harder to determine if they are
good.

But why would the organic cost less? They didn't appear to be on sale.
There was no advertised sign. Maybe they had an overstock and realized they
were going South?

I will be very glad when we start getting good produce again. All bell
peppers were $1.50 each today which is more than I want to pay. I had a
hankering for a green one too but they were all wrinkled and mushy. The red
ones were good looking so I did buy one of those. Those usually cost more
than the green.