Cherries at our "No Frills" supermarket... $2.99/lbs (Product of USA, doesn't say where or type)

Bought some jumbo local/domestic cherries at my local WM for C$4.33/Kg ($1.97/lb) on Monday. Wife went to pick up more yesterday and it had dropped to C$2.33/Kg or ~C$1.05/lb.

My local Kroger has cherries for 99 cents a pound this week. No idea if they’re any good, yet.

Trader Joe’s, SSF:
rainier - $4.99 / lb
red - $6.99 / 32-Oz clamshell

last week organic rainier were $6.99/lb

$1.99 per pound for cherries from the Northwest this week at Publix.
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$1.99 per pound of WA at Berkeley Bowl.

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Bumper crop!

David

We picked the last of our Rainier cherries from our old but small tree yesterday. 8 lbs. These were much better than the first pickings, but personally I much prefer bings.
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Formerly local supermarket chain had cherries "on sale" for C$2.88/lb which isn't great.

However, the stuff being sold was from this outfit that grows/markets superjumbo cherries worldwide. Quite a deal as they're expensive otherwise.

Bought two bags of cherries from "Real Canadian Superstore" for $1.84/lbs. The two cherries I had weren't bad.... just need to wash them and do some more testing. :)

Cherries

Pricey luxury fruit is a big business in Japan, and Yamagata prefecture is out with a new variety, the Benio, that is the result of 20 years of research and breeding to make an optimal flesh-to-seed ratio. They're selling for 8,300 yen ($60) per kilogram at market but then over $80 for a small bucket at retail in Tokyo. Yamagata is responsible for producing 12,000 tons of cherries, roughly 75 percent of the annual harvest, and the premium cherries provide crucial income to the small farmers who make up the backbone of the business.

Alice French, Nikkei Asia

Some prices for kirsebær in kroner:
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Some prices are clearly better than others.

David

More cherry prices from around Denmark:

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While the case for 60 kr (~$9) was a deal, transporting it around without a car wasn't going to work well.

David

Trader Joe's, Riviera Village, Redondo Beach CA:

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David

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I tasted one and it was good but not good enough to spend that kind of money. 🥴🍒
Before somebody points out...I do know that those are not cherries in the photo. The cherries were in bags at the front of the display and that was a tall sign. 😃

Looks like Toyko Central. Which one?

David

Hawthorne & Sepulveda. I stock up on their gallons of Crystal Geyser water. Best price in town.

Well, looks like Southern California's about to get Hilary Sky Geyser. Stay dry!

David

p.s. Any pics of the those Timberline Marble cherries? Apparently the cherries only have a 10 day picking season.

No but they are very pretty. Dark red with a lighter strip on them.
Well I drink that water every day & stopped on my way home from Costco but yes I am bracing for a storm that has a chance of being over-hyped. How many times have we heard "storm of the century ". 🌪

No Timberline marbles, but what was available at the Harris Teeter Vienna VA:

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David

First of the season California cherries - today in Dixon (Pedrick Rd. fruit stand) $2.49/lb. Already bagged in 2+lb bags - mixed degrees of ripeness, but who the eff cares - at $2.49 and available, yay. A few minutes earlier, while driving on I-80, I had mentioned that the cherries should be ready soon, and I don't think today's rain should affect the ripening crop. And voila, within a couple of minutes, one of the signs on the side of the freeway said "Cherries $2.49/lb" and we got two lanes over, exited, and bought a bunch of stuff, including cilantro at 25¢ a bunch, artichokes, onions, yellow bell peppers, blueberries (first that I've seen not imported all year), an orange cauliflower, and another thing or two.

Yes you haters, you hate California until we export all this deliciousness to you :p

Not sure about the others, but I don't hate California for shipping stuff our way. I just don't buy it because they're usually on the verge of being overripe by the time it hits markets here.

Our blueberry season is about over. They weren’t very sweet this year. I saw California cherries today at Publix for the first time this year. They were priced at $4.99 a pound. I also bought the first US grown peaches this week - it’s been at least a month since the last of the South American crop disappeared from the shelves. They were $1.34 a pound.

I only buy Jumbo blueberries. They aren't everywhere but not hard to find. They are extra big and more expensive but always excellent.

I love and buy all blueberries, but my local Winco yesterday had super fresh jumbos 18oz for $3.99. USA grown. Super food you know. ;)

We are only about 4 miles away from a blueberry farm (grove? Orchard?) where you can pick your own. We receive berries from there every year from friends and neighbors who go to pick them. I’d say they are “medium”. My best memories are picking wild berries in New England as a child; blueberries as well as strawberries. They were tiny, but oh so tasty!

I got 2lbs/$5 cherries (allegedly from California) from my favorite street fruit guy yesterday. And since blueberries have entered the chat already, I will add that I also got 2 boxes of Driscoll’s “ Sweetest Batch” blueberries, also 2/$5. I had thought Sweetest Batch was just a marketing trick to charge more but I have to say all the berries I have had branded as such have indeed been very good.

It is peak of our short season here, so the odds are good that you're eating "Real California Fruit" :D

That's an amazing price for Sweetest Batch....they are usually the most expensive and even more than Jumbo.

One of the online grocers here (Fresh Direct) has the Sweetest Batch Blueberries for $12 per box 😮

They are $7,99 here. $12!!! Yikes.

We have generic blueberries here this week for $2.99 +tax for a quart... And they're not pretty. Haven't even seen cherries yet.

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Guess where.

As I scrolled down, my first thought was Brazil and my second thought was Portugal :D

Same street vendor had 2lbs/$5 red cherries and $3/lb white cherries today, all looking pretty good. I ended up sticking to berries though as he also had 3 boxes/$5 sweetest batch strawberries. I admit they are not perfect in this heat but they should be fine for chia jam or triage and freeze this evening. Was also tempted by the 4/$5 sweetest batch raspberries but those were already soup.

PSA that the 4th of July holiday means cherries are on sale at many supermarkets, at least in my neck of the woods. Cheapest I’m seeing in today’s flyers is $1.99/lb (Stop & Shop).

C$1.88 + tax up here starting tomorrow.
(Product of USA...not sure when it's our turn)

On sale at Lidl by my place for $2.99 / lbs - outside of DC

Starting tomorrow.... (Canadian cherries)


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They’re back up to $3.99. The best I had this summer were $2.99 a pound, sweet and fragrant.