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Originally Posted by Keith P.
Just a comment about Avery's: on some items their business model is to buy the produce that the supermarket chains reject, due to size or cosmetics. Not necessarily past its prime stuff, but stuff that is either too big or too small or otherwise not cosmetically up to their standards.
What you say about buying local is really just a smaller-scale version of any sort of commerce. The Walmart model of lowest-cost provider has driven much manufacturing to China and consumers continue to lap it up. I don't think food is much different. Paying more for locally-produced products will always be limited to a fringe group of relatively well-off consumers.
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Very true. Re: the bold part, a lot of the time it comes down to buying appropriately rather that stuff that seems cheaper at face value. About a month or two back my room mate and I went to the store to buy salmon. After compairing the price of the salmon per weight compaired to something as trivial as a bag or doritos, and working out the math it was something like 4 or 5 times cheaper to buy the salmon.
Now you would have to buy a few bags of doritos to equal a salmon steaks but the point is still there and quite a shocking reality. It's all about how you buy in todays market. The problem is a lot of people would rather skip the effort and buy ready made crap off the shelf then put a bit of effort into making a quality meal for cheaper. I've lived under the poverty line my entire adult life so far and have been able to live pretty comfortably and healthy (minus the smoking), so it's more do able than people think.
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