a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
tla  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's

By my experience, supermarkets in my suburbia prefer to get their produce once a week. On Mondays. From Wednesdays through Sunday the avocados left are ripe and have been pawed at for days already so even the good ones have bad spots.

We don't have a TJ's in our town, so we go a few towns over on Saturdays usually. I can get bright green avocados from TJ's on a Saturday and have them ripe but a little starchy on Monday, ripe but firm on Tuesday and buttery Wednesday or even Thursday no problem and with few bad spots. Unless I store them next to bananas, then all bets are off.