Current price for cherries in your location
 

Is $9.99/lb for organic cherries about right? California (San Francisco) - I don’t have a price comparison because I’ve only seen it at one supermarket.

due to Covid I can’t check too many other places to get a price idea.

delicious cherries but it’s almost funny to pay $20-ish for a bag of cherries.

Not organic, but $4.99 a pound at Publix in central Florida.

$9.99 is a bit dear. I wait for Costco to get theirs in. Usually $5-7 for a 2-3 pound container. Sometimes they even get the Rainier type, which are pricier, maybe $8-10 for 2 pounds.

Non-organic cherries are selling at $5.98 for 2 lb at Walmart Grocery (pick-up at Milpitas, CA). Adding 100% pricing to encounter the "organic" feature, still it would still be $5.98/lb in my estimate.

Even Whole Food is selling $7.99/lb for organic cherries, which IMHO - Whole Food's pricing is already ridiculous enough.

So what you see is ridiculously expensive.

Can't you check prices online? I can see non-Instacart prices online for any number of grocery store chains in my area.

Thanks! Not cheap for sure but they work. It’s a trade off of not going to wmt and Costco for sure.

$10? Hell no. They are in season now. Is that some kind of boutique market?
Whole foods has the non-organic on sale this week for $4.99 and extra 10% off for prime.
Most of my grocery stores have prices online or send around weekly sale papers. Cherries will be around for at least a few more weeks...I wouldn't pay that price.

We paid $1.99 per pound at Safeway last week. Today's ad says they have gone up to $2.99. In southern Maryland, and the cherries came from California's Central Valley.

In a fancy Minneapolis area local small grocery chain, $5.99 per pound (save $2) for "jumbo dark red cherries" (no origin specified in the ad) last week and this week (prices change tomorrow, on Thursday morning) but I looked and passed as they didn't seem like the dark cherries I love. For dark and/or sour cherries, it's a very limited window for local availability, with some from Door Country, Wisconsin, and others from Michigan in general AFAIK. I remember the season as being roughly July and not now.

I've also had wonderful local cherries in season from open air city fruit markets in Germany and to some extent France, and priced a lot less than US$12-17 per kilo..

Thanks - I forgot to check the non-organic price but I’m sure it’s much less. Some fruits & vegetables like carrots and bananas are just a bit more when organic.

There was a short story in my local paper today that Washington and Oregon cherry crops will be down about 20% from peak harvest due to some disease. I think it was called little cherry disease. Probably came from China.

Whole Foods in San Francisco has organic cherries for $7.99/pound, $4.99/pound for non-organic.

There is a list out somewhere of which fruits are worth paying more for organic. Everything is more expensive organic. I am sure cherries are worth buying organic, so are strawberries. Bananas are not because they are peeled. Pineapple is also not worth buying organic. Apples you should buy organic. I am sure you can find the list.
But unless they are individually wrapped with a bow, I can't fathom $10 cherries.

i love browsing at costco, but not at this time

sameday.costco.com (requires membership account)
it's powered by instacart, but no additional surcharges/fees besides tip (just $35 minimum spend on the marked up prices, usually i find it's 20-25% markup)

the regular instacart.com/costco website, allows non-member, have various fees on top of the marked-up prices)

using zipcode 94013,

Sweet Red Cherries (non-organic, unknown origin) are 2 pound for $9.59 (which is $7.99 before ~20% markup)

Frozen Smart Harvest Organic Sweet Cherries are 4 pound for $12.59 (which is $10.49 before ~20% markup)


94086 has Rainier Cherries $8.40 for 1 pound but OOS ($7 before markup)

94050 has Organic Red Cherries, 2 pound for $14.39 ($12 before markup)


i havne't seen what markup the actual instacart.com website uses (for costco/other stores)

Thanks everyone. I really only eat organic fruits. I’m so fussy.

I bought several pounds today at ALDIs in Florida at $2.99/lb
Pretty darn good from the Colon Blow farms

At $300/pound, they better be darn good! :D

$9.99 is more in line with what I see here in NC for the Rainier cherries. Regular cherries are more in line with the $5-7 others have cited.

Bought a pound of rainier from Costco today - completely flavorless... last weekend got 2 lb of regular and they were very decent...both were $7 per pack..
overall produce quality has been very inconsistent during covid times everywhere...

could you return the cherries to Costco with any other returns?

Costco has implemented a special policy in light of COVID-19 in term of return.

I don't know the exact detail as I have not been there for months. But I would assume no for now.

Little Cherry Disease likely originated from Japan, according to experts

But, the quote in your post says $2.99. :)

I’ve only heard about no returns on hoarded items. I don’t think cherries are being hoarded.

We returned some items, in mid March, with no problem. Moldy water bagels be gone!

Check this out - $9.99 per lb is cheap!
https://agoodtree.com/worlds-most-ex...ology-farm-30/

I think you have the decimal point wrong. Fruit with a bow, which I've only seen in Japan, is more like US$100, although the bows are very nice, usually velvet and there's a nice gift box too.

wow! “Sato Nishiki variety cherries are usually sold in 300 gram boxes containing around 40-50 cherries at ¥40000 a throw( 350$), making them among some of the …”

plus the fruit is just really nice and meant to be given as a gift. I just hope these gifts get eaten!

Actually I have found that organic bananas have a several-day-longer edible shelf life than conventional bananas, so I always buy them (and bananas are one of the very few things for which I insist on paying up for organic). I am one of those people who cannot stand mushy bananas.

My local boutique market also sells them for $9.99 a pound. 1 or 2.99 a pound at Safeway is my kind of price. I love cherry season. The dude on the corner sells a big bag For $10, but his are kinda the leftovers from the field.

not according to the stablest of all geniuses

in sf - like Luke’s, harvest foods, or buffalo in Castro? Glad to see a post matching organic at $9.99.
I haven’t yet seen much on cherries at Safeway overall and I don’t like market street Safeway only because there is too much empty commercial retail nearby the shop.

El Cerrito Farmer's Market -$6/lb or $10/ 2 lbs. on Tuesday. Don't know if they're organic. Sprouts had cherries for less, but they're pre-bagged, which is the problem with all the supermarket cherries this year, and some just aren't very ripe.

:D I swear it originally said $299/lb.

that’s a great price if organic. How about your beloved Berkeley bowl?

Our Von's in Southern CA had cherries for $1.88 a pound. I bought 3 pounds and they were Yummy. The average price though in our grocery ads are about $3.99 a pound.

4.49/lb for organic here in CHS

ooh very excellent price compared to the $9.99 :-)

Mollie Stones is $6.99lb. I love me some cherries, so they got me, as I was there, but that is the most Ill pay

organic?!
is this the one on 18th? I used to go there with other moms after our Tot classes.

Canyon Market - Glen Park.

I notice that as well and suspected a dirty screen where periods blend with the dirt.:)