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The celery price is amazing!
Bishop
Thursday 16th of April 2009 1:46 am
The celery price is amazing! |
The war on single people continues! When will the single people rise up and fight this terrible injustice?
If they do, they will probably just pair up and start families. Another revolution stimied. |
Cinnamon cream dip? Sign me up! |
If you can\'t be bothered to wash and cut up a bunch of celery then you deserve to pay that kind of money. Nuttiness! |
What the hell are cups? |
A fool and their money is soon parted. |
Either yogurt cups are huge in California or you have tiny hands. Where I\'m from, yogurt containers are half that
size. |
I stay away from that stuff. |
Gimme. I love that shit. Just gimme! |
$4.99 for celery? makes sense. everyone knows the starting wage for celery cutters and packers is $25/hr plus benefits. |
 This kind of stuff is for people that are throwing a party and then realize they forgot to make some sort of
fruit/vegetable type of appetizer dish. |
You should compare how much similar standard packages cost. Ex: How much do canned peaches in light syrup cost? |
 i like the fruit naturals |
I hate wasting my time at restaurants and use my company paid meal money to shop at Safeway. It blows my mind that a few
prepared items can cost upwards of $25 as much or more than having restaurant food delivered to a comfortable table
including tip & tax. |
I like turtles |
While I\'ve not purchased any of the convenience items you mention (seriously, how hard is it to rinse and chop
celery?)I WILL admit to being totally sold on pre-packaged salad greens. |
With convenience comes a price, I suppose. Wow, though. 16 bucks to core and slice $5 worth of apples and toss in some
(surely) sugar-oil \"cream dip\". I suppose that Safeway gets enough of a return on the packaging, so there must be
plenty of folks who can\'t spare 15 minutes. |
I can\'t imagine paying $15 for what appears to be 4-5 apples. |
I\'m wicked awesome and named after a vitamin!!!! |
Looks like perfect snacks to take on your next tea bagging protest. I wonder if the apples where also injected with
some corn syrup before being wedged? It very important to get your 500+ grams of high fructose corn syrup in your daily
diet. |
Ha ha! Other people spend money on things I would not spend money on, therefore they are dumb! Chopping my own fruits
and vegetables is praise worthy! LOL OMG WTF! |
Hovercraft |
How much is inside episode? |
Peach chunks in Midori with sweet and sour mix is good stuff! |
Now, now. In these troubled economic times there are lots people who can\'t afford new-fangled luxuries like cutting
boards and knives. These ludicrously overpriced and overpackaged produce items are a real blessing for these folks.
Shame on you! |
The best part is that you can turn right around and see the whole produce due to Safeway\'s layout. |
This is bullcrap! |
You could walk over to the canned foods aisle and buy a 14oz can of peaches for cheaper. They even put pull-tabs on them
now so you can pack one for lunch. |
If I\'m on a trip, and have no access to food preparation facilities, this sort of thing is ideal. |
Yeah. One time I got stuck with three apples and no place or equipment to prepare it. I was so fucked. |
war on single people? more like war on lazy people...or war on stupid people... |
Celery is something that -should- come in single serving containers.
How often do you need more than one stalk? But this works out to
costing about 50x the price of the real stuff. Does Safeway sell
anything that\'s actually food anymore?
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The celery and apples should be refrigerated to keep longer. |
Is it that hard to chop celery into thirds?
(Are you still doing the Safeway card thing?) |
To be fair, those prepackaged readypack things don\'t actually come from safeway, they are shipped to us and we are
required to sell them. You\'ll notice the same brands, for the same price, at all other grocery stores. You pay an extra
5 dollars for the convenience of having everything cleaned and prepared for you.
I do, however, think the 15.99 price for the apples is excessive... |
I\'ve had that celery / carrot stuff. It\'s pretty awful. Well, what you\'d expect celery and carrots soaking in the
same water for a couple of days. |
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH |
I\'m an IPHONE! |
I was fixing a blind man\'s boat when a big wad of goop came rolling across the deck.
\"Whut thuh\" I said as I motioned to a seagull.
I thought it must be old varnish or maybe even a jellyfish. I sounded the alarms:
\"Uh, doods, moving goop over here...\"
Nobody gave a shit. Deck goop must be common to boaters. I wouldn\'t know, I don\'t know anything about boats. I was
only helping cuz the guy was blind so how would he know if I did a shitty job? |
Bleep Bleep Bloop Bleep
Beep Bloop Beep Beeeeoop! |
Just wait until you\'ve promised to bring snacks to your kids crap holiday party and don\'t remember until you pull into
the parking lot. All of a sudden $15 seems incredibly reasonable. |
So what the heck preservative did they spray on the apples to keep them from turning brown? Ewwwwwwwwww. |
Toyota so wanted to steal my name, but they added a \"u\" to keep me from suing them. Jerks. |
Say ORGANIC apples are $2.29/lb, and say the chemical (I mean cinnamon cream)sauce is $2.00 for that little container,
that would only be a total of $8.30. It takes all of one minute to cut up an apple. Is ONE MINUTE of your time really
worth $7.69? That would be $461.40/hr. That\'s 70 times more than minimum wage (~ $0.11/minute.) If you work 40 hrs a
week, 52 weeks a year, at $7.69/minute,then your yearly salary is $959,712.00. So if that\'s the case, then no, the
apples are not a rip-off. |
For apples? Is there gold in that thar sauce?? |
Americans sure know how to make money... |
People pay it, nobody every went bankrupt by underestimating the intelligence of the American consumer. |
um, whoa.
But you live in California. Don\'t you pay for air out there? Dirt? Dust? |
I\'m going to cut a watermelon in half and sell it for $50 |
I\'m going to sell two olives on a toothpick for $2.25, call it a Martini Lunch. |
This is why I NEVER shop at Safeway. |
This all said by the same people who go out and spend a buck or two on a 16oz. bottle of water! |
Holy batman, batman. |
Yogurt in cups gives you tiny hands via false hormone masking! |
What if you were on a scavenger hunt listing \"pre-packaged snack tray of apple slices costing $13.50 or higher\"?
You didn\'t take that into account (as usual).
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Domo arigato, Safeway |
 Seriously, this is the worst article in Cockeyed.com history. |
I\'ll occasionally grab such things for a road trip (though usually from Wawa) but it\'s otherwise unnecessary. I do,
however, wish that celery was sold in smaller packages - there\'s only two of us and we don\'t like celery that much.
Carrots, too, and herb bundles like parsley and cilantro, but celery is the worst offender. Asparagus and broccoli and
the like are usually sold by the pound, thank goodness, so I just pull apart their pre-tied bundles and buy what I need. |
how else are \'they\' going to pay for the porkulus package? |
I\'m not gonna lie...I am too lazy as a college student to slice up my own apples. However, celery does not need to be
washed or cut up for me to consume :) As for peaches...they are too fuzzy in their natural form and too expensive and
sugar saturated to consume as packaged. End quote. |
 A pre-cut tray of apples a day keeps the prosperity away! |
Jesus, that\'s crazy. |
What a waste of money and plastic. |
I am fluent in over twelve methods of produce preparation and do not have to pay such inflated prices, master Rob. |
Those Fruit Naturals cups are a pain in the ass. They always splash when you open them. |
People will pay for convenience. |
god forbid it was affordable to eat healthy |
Holy cow this website got stupid. |
i love this robot theme your using. |
Beep beep! |
I am the modern man . . . and suddenly you\'re Andy Rooney!
\"Did you ever notice the price of produce? When I was a lad a bushel of apples and a hand of celery were worth a
plugged nickel!\"
Mr. Robot comments because he cares. Styx with the hijinks, mon robotique frer. |
The 8 oz. cup of peach chunks in light syrup is actually peach chunks in high fructose corn syrup or \"corn with
peaches\". HFCS is the heroin is sugars. It is in a lot of things you would not think it is in (even sausage). Comes
from corn which is cheaper than sugar cane to grow which is why they use it. Corn is used to quickly fatten beef and it
will do the same to you. All the other stuff is great and good for you but is for people who have no knives at home.
How o the apples stay fresh??? |
Britian also has this problem....often is £3 for a small mixed fruit salad which is worth about 50p in fruit. terrible. |
Just buy beer and Doritos. |
what the frack? |
There\'s not enough sauce with those apples |
You fools! Energon is cheaper than any human sustenance! |
Its ridiculous that people will try to sell anything these days... You could have the same things for so much less!
Celery is like, 2 bucks a bunch, peaches are 2 dollars a pound... Apples are 3-5 dollars a bag....You\'re paying so much
more for packaging than the veggies/fruit itself, PLUS adding to the endless amounts of waste that plastic packaging
provides! |
Qrak! |
You should be shocked at the laziness and complacency of the soccer moms who keep these companies in business by
purchasing their sixteen dollar trays of four sliced apples, instead of taking the one minute to cut the one dollar\'s
worth of apples themselves. This stuff wouldn\'t be around if dupes didn\'t buy it. |
Frankly I\'d like to see these apples cut into bit size pieces. |
Bite size, bite size pieces. Dammit! |
I teach first grade and about 1/4 of the parents buy these products for their kids\' snacks! There is also a little
prepared bag of sliced apple. How difficult is it to slice an apple and stick it in your kid\'s lunchbox? Having a four
year old I\'ve learned that the kids want the PACKAGING and are more likely to eat the product then if you prepare it at
home. If you want to save $ and not be a consumer sucker you have to stand strong! |
Are you feeling lazy Rob? Where\'s the rest of the article where you find the price of the whole unprepared apples,
celery, and peaches? Then calculate the amount of time to prepare them and figure out how much the prepared food should
cost... |
Stay away from the prepackaged lettuce.People NEVER wash that stuff.
Have you ever driven by a lettuce field and wondered \"where are the porta-potties?\" |
1. Wendilou:
You have your reasoning completely backwards. If you buy this product, you are actually paying someone else $461.40/hr
to cut apples for you. Or to put it another way, unless your free time is worth more to you than $461.40/hr, you should
slice the apples yourself. Perhaps it makes sense then to say, \"I promised to provide sliced apples, I have 5 minutes
to come up with the goods, and my social reputation is worth the $461.40/hr it will now cost to provide them\", but it
will be clearer to most people just how much they are getting ripped off (or wasting by not being better organised.)
2. This kind of segues into the question, \"why would anyone pay so much for apples except in a critical apple
emergency?\" I suspect the main reason is that most people\'s math skills are so poor they can\'t really see how badly
they are being ripped off, while charging everything to the credit card helps hide the cost among you $100 grocery bill
(instead of having to hunt through your purse for another ten bucks and realisng you don\'t really need pre-sliced
apples.) I live in Australia, and over here the government has recently intriduced a regulation that grocery stores have
to display prices in price per unit weight, even if the item is sold in some other unit (which price is also displayed.)
The idea is to simply make it easier for the innumerate to compare the prices on, say, a 375 gram soup can to a 425 gram
soup can. I think it\'s an excellent idea, but it\'s still too new to see if will work to improve competition.
3. Adding heaps of extra sugar to everything is not good, and certainly increases obesity, dental caries and type II
diabetes. However, the idea that fructose in HFCS is worse than other types of sugar is inherently unlikely and very
poorly to not at all supported by the evidence. It\'s just the main cause of the problem in the US and Canada simply
because it\'s the cheapest (in the US market, due to Federal subsidies) and hence the most common added sugar. Fact is,
if those peaches had no added sugar, just their naturally fairly high sugar content that sugar would be: fructose! Or if
you sweetened them with delicious, all natural honey, you would be adding a syrup whose sugar composition is almost
identical to HFCS! The problem isn\'t the fructose, the problem is adding too damn much of it!
4. The company where I work now spends a lot of effort on packaging, and within a few days of meeting the packaging
engineers, I\'ve gone from having contempt for companies that use lots of packaging, through to respect. The fact is,
packaging design is a highly advanced science that seeks to minimise product damage (and hence, both environmental
impact and consumer costs through passed-on lossage costs) with the absolute minimum possible amount of packaging
material and energy (and hence, minimal cost and environmental impact.) People think the total mass of packaging is
increasing, but in most areas, they are totally wrong: the mass is actually decreasing, but decreasing by using
gossamer-thin advanced materials that *look* like they\'re more, but are so light your kitchen scales are probably
unable to detect them. In some areas, it is necessary to use heavier materials, but increasingly these are recycled(with
environmental costs of recycling that are *far* lower than glass or metal containers, and lower even than cellulosics
like paper or cardboard.) The ideal of course would be to recycle all polymers, but at present this is a big challenge:
when a package weighs less than a tenth of gram, you can\'t afford to spend more than fractions of a milli-cent
processing it.
In some areas -- particularly fresh foods -- packaging mass has increased from traditional levels, but only because the
savings have been abolutely huge, and were worth it. The fresh produce market, if monitored all the way from the farm
gate to the kitchen waste bin, traditionally had wastage rates of up to 30%, which can be reduced to below 5% by
improved packaging. If you consider that 30% multiplied across all food consumption in the world, that\'s a shocking
cost. A cost of course in environmental burden of waste disposal, in health burden of vermin control, but also in the
simple matter of food cost and availability.
It turns out in fact, that packaging design is by far the most cost effective and least environmentally burdensome way
to feed the world. It is so important that the government of India has encouraged massive investment in its packaging
industry, to feed India\'s hundreds of millions of people below the poverty line. (In the process, India has become the
world leader in packaging design, and most of the packaging engineers at my company are Indians.) |
But how much was a can of Pepsi? |
The Del Monte thingys with grapefruit instead of peaches are splendid. I doubt I\'d buy the celery from Safeway though,
that\'s the kind of thing that I will only be ripped off for at a cafeteria or something where you are going to be
ripped off no matter what. I don\'t think I could ever rationalize spending $15 on apples though. |
am i even a robot? |
If Safeway sold celery in 8 ounce containers, they\'d ask $2.84 for it, according to an independent analysis of the
grocery store\'s pricing.
That seems pretty expensive. But Safeway could make it appear worthwhile with some slick celery marketing. Celery: Fill
up on the food that can never make you fat! |
hmm, a lot of people seem to think that it would take an idiot to buy something like that, rather than an idiot to
package it. I know it\'s a slightly different situation, but I lived on a college campus for two years and without a
car, and tiny $4 cups of celery sticks and wilty $5 salads were the only alternatives to cheese steaks and pizza which
were more often than not cheaper. So, did I choose to be healthy and poor or fat and comfortable? |
I had one of those fruit naturals thingies for lunch one day and the label fell off the container. I didn\'t feel like
taking a swig of the syrupy leftover fruit juice so as I was walking to dispose of it in the office kitchen, one of my
co-workers commented that I shouldn\'t be storing my specimen in the office fridge. She thought it was my pee! |
What is the price per calorie? |
Rob, is this stuff about your brother serious? I can\'t see the YouTube videos because I\'m at work. That\'s insane.
There\'s a lot of money coming your brother\'s way, I suspect. . . |
That stuff is too expensive!! Who the heck could afford to buy it these days?? |
You need to get out more. |
What\'s wrong with MacN\'Cheese in a tub? |
And the sad thing is, people buy it. All about convenience. Yeah, you could buy the uncut apples for a couple bucks and
the caramel is cheap too. But you have to cut it and arrange it, and too much hassle. Screw it, I\'ll pay $16. |
I\'m clumsy with sharp things, so these are a bargain if it means I\'m not risking more injury in the kitchen. |
Actually, a lot of yogurt containers are only 4 or 6 oz. Prices go higher and the product gets smaller. |
So, if the only thing added to these \"prepared foods\" is labor and packaging, we could calculate how much \"labor\"
was inside the celery.
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Safeway can bite my shiny metal ass! |
3 pounds of apples: $6. Dipping sauce: $3. A man to stand there and slice up apples by hand, for 30 minutes: $7 (at
$14/hour). Seems reasonable to me! |
You mean that is not how apples grow? |
They\'ve been doing this with dog food for years. |
In our Wal-Mart in Oklahoma there are 10oz. packages of diced white onion for $2.50. You can buy a white onion for
around $1.29/lb. |
I always wonder about the prics of these things. .85 cents worth of celery for 15 bucks. Hilarious |
Of course silly humans need to have prepared natural food. Besides, how can a celery picker/packer see even a percent of
this? Many ag workers are still at the equivalent of $30/day. And what about the salmonella risks with produce? Are
these supposed to be completely clean already? |
I\'d buy the apples if they had more sauce. |
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they prepackage my food; i eat oil and scrap metal. |
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water placed into a 20floz bottle: 1.29 |
I have worked at many fruit markets, and the prepackaged fruit movement disturbs me. Greatly... |
Idk about the fruit tray...but in the store where I work (in OH) they\'re twice as much. |
Celery? More like... overpriced celery! |
the apple snack tray is ridic!
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Thats not what my mom said. |
Celery is going to be the new currency, so that price is cheap.
You heard it here first. |
Cutting is too difficult, and my time is extremely valuable. It is easier to buy the prepackaged vegetables at any
cost. |
Well I never! How could they? I mean 14 Oz? .. and yet you can buy celery by the bunch for like 2.99 or something and
you get like 28oz. But you have to wash it & trim it yourself. |
Glad I don\'t need to eat any of this junk, I couldn\'t afford it! |
those fruits cups are a whole 50 cents mroe there than they are out here in ND. And that\'s -with- the club card. Ouch.
They -are- damn tasty, though. I just bought one this evening. Mmmmm... |
Shockingly degenerate. Although I do like the Kraft Easy Mac series, and I used to sneer at it because...why? Why can\'t
you just make a box of mac & cheese and take some with you in a suitable container? |
Recession FTW! |
I love your website. It makes my day, every day. |
Wow, you\'re better off buying a plastic cup, bottle of water, and a knife and a whole thing of celery and making it
yourself in the car during the ride home and still come off cheaper R2. |
Technically I\'m not a robot, this mechanical suit just helps me to be a more efficient exterminator. |
o wow the prices are outrageously high |
I don\'t get it......? |
In Houston, I\'ve gotten a huge tray of cut carrots, celery, broccoli, and baby tomatoes with two types of dip for
$4.99. I did the math and it was better than individually buying and doing it myself. Check for the stuff that\'s a day
or two from the \"sell by\" date. It\'ll be ridiculously cheap! |
I\'d much rather pay $15 for 2lbs of cut apples than $5 for a 5lb bag of whole apples (which won\'t be rotten at the end
of the day). |
this reminds me of my days working in the produce department at giant eagle.
those del monte fruit naturals are SO EXPENSIVE!
\"convenience food\" |
Jesus Christ... I get a 20lb box of amazing local organic fruits and veggies delivered a block away from my house every
week for $20. Sure, you\'ve gotta wash it (and cut it! horrors!) yourself... |
those reusable containers really rack up the prices, eh? |
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