Oh this time of year I certainly miss my Michigan grocery stores. Best cherries there are!

$9.99 for rainier at Tokyo Central market today. I should have taken a photo. Of course it was next to the $99 pineapple so cherries looked cheap by comparison.

Must be imported Japanese cherries.

David

p.s. Gardena or Torrance?

Torrance...Hawthorne and Sepulveda. I pretty much only buy water there....It is the only place where Crystal Geyser gallon jugs are still 99cents.

No idea what the current price may be, but the fresh summer cherries / guindas are part of every morning's breakfast spread.

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Seasonal summer fruit

Product of Chile.... CDN$3.99/lbs + tax

This week's special @ Smart & Final: $2.99/lb.

David

they ain't nearly as good and should be banned from this thread :)

No clue. That's what is coming in at the moment (will check where the asian supermarkets source theirs next time I go). Not sure if there is a way to have long term cherry storage.

That would be the pits.

David

Well, this photo will make some folks proud:
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David

It's that time of year in the Northern Hemisphere:

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David

$5/lbs here. One store had them on sale for $1.99/lbs, but the vast majority of them were pretty tasteless.

I have not yet had a really good cherry this year. That includes CA and WA from stores, local from farmers markets, and from our own tree. Maybe too much rain, especially late spring?

I had some pretty good Rainiers from Whole Foods (downtown Seattle). Ludicrously expensive though, $6.99/lb. (Bing for $4.99/lb.)

Stopped at a grocery store after a false alert made me get up and go to a data center (gotta love IT) early this morning. Cherries (big-ish) Product of the USA (no clue as to what type) for $3.98/lbs

Got some at Costco last week that were quite good. Supposed to be $5.99 for 2 pounds. Of course the best looking container was an organic one that I didn’t even see a tag for. Charged $9.99.

S$12 per kg for those from Turkey , end of season , so not the best



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Here are some

Got restocked at Costco this afternoon. 2 pounds for $4.99.

Most likely, haven't had enough time to properly ripen. The sugars haven't had a chance to develop.

Yup, not a great cherry season. I expect lots of storm damage occurred in Northern CA (at a time when the nearly-ripe fruit would split), and our short local season is long done.

I bought them for $3.59/lb on the weekend - not bad consider how it usually is

All the ones from Costco recently were pretty good. The organic ones were 8/10, and normal ones 7/10.

No fuzz growth detected? IIRC you've had some not so great batches in the past.

David

$3.99 a pound this afternoon at Winn Dixie. I just got back so haven’t tried them.

On the $4.99 batch, I found one cherry with a slight amount of mold. Packed in WA, on June 25th, so about a week before we bought it. I try to look at the bottom of the container, to look for such things. My daughter picked it out, but I doubt I’d have spotted it, either.

Fairly good deal this week:

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David

Scoot over to those mangos which are 3 for 99cents this week. :tu:

Shhhsh...be very very quiet - hunting mangoes....

;)

David

Down to $2.99 here this week. But disappointing at 3.99 so why would I bother?

The cherries we're now getting are riper so hopefully that applies as well in your market.

David

The last batch of Costco cherries were great, 2 pounds for $3.99. Not a bad cherry in the box. From Yakima, WA.

Local Aldi in LA's San Fernando Valley was selling pretty decent Washington State cherries this week for $1.49/lb.

$3.50/lb. for Rainiers at the farmers markets here in Seattle, but they're pretty much the best cherries I've seen all summer.

$2.49 at my local Aldi. I hope these are better than what I’ve had so far this year.

Only one way to find out. At least legally.

David

Whether they are or not, I have a couple pounds to try. They look nice, but that’s not always indicative.

Meanwhile Ranier cherries at the same store were $6.99.

ETA: Blah. Watery, unsweet. I’m done buying cherries.

Aldi near here has Rainiers for $4.99/lb this week, but I bought some off a street vendor this morning for $3. A couple were trash but they are otherwise in surprisingly good condition (and tasty too).

$2.99 / $4.99 / $6.99 for standard Bings / organic Bings / Ranier at Wegmans in Sterling VA:

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David

Some day the Manhattan Wegman's will finally open.... sigh....
(Summer 2023 has become Fall 2023 which feels like it could be as late as Spring 2024.)