I'm gonna put in a good word for Costco, here - I'm sure that this varies by location, but the ones in Phoenix have a pretty good selection of fresh fruits and vegetables. The last time I went, for example, they had not just iceberg lettuce, but romaine, 'heirloom' red and green leaf lettuce, spinach and at least one of the fancy spring greens mixes. It's definitely cheaper to buy produce there than to buy the same items at the grocery store. Oftentimes their produce is better quality, too - I won't get avocados anywhere else these days. Also, Costo buys eggs and milk from local dairies. As huge soulless corporations go, Costco is one of the better ones.
Which isn't to say that fresh produce there still isn't more expensive than canned or frozen vegetables - it is - but the prices seem to be in proportion to Costco's prices for other things. The only real downside is that when you buy four pounds of radicchio, or whatever, it can be difficult to eat it all before it spoils. (Which is why I was cutting up mass quantities of mangos the other day - we bought a flat of them at Costco, and I had to freeze most of them for future use.) We found that investing in a box of those plastic bags which retard vegetable spoilage was money well spent - they really do work, and they've more than paid for themselves in produce saved from going bad since we started using them.
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Date: 2010-03-29 05:02 am (UTC)Which isn't to say that fresh produce there still isn't more expensive than canned or frozen vegetables - it is - but the prices seem to be in proportion to Costco's prices for other things. The only real downside is that when you buy four pounds of radicchio, or whatever, it can be difficult to eat it all before it spoils. (Which is why I was cutting up mass quantities of mangos the other day - we bought a flat of them at Costco, and I had to freeze most of them for future use.) We found that investing in a box of those plastic bags which retard vegetable spoilage was money well spent - they really do work, and they've more than paid for themselves in produce saved from going bad since we started using them.