I paid $4.99 for a pound of Ranier cherries. People would scream if the gas prices were that high. What gives?
2006-07-12 10:18:34 · 10 answers · asked by sunfell2001 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I recently saw on the news that in Chelan, WA ,where the fruit comes from had a terrible hail storm season which damaged almost all crops, so the prices soar. I'm sure the cherries are not the only fruit that was hit.
2006-07-12 10:27:42 · answer #1 · answered by Jae 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
People ARE screaming -- about the gas prices. And that's also why the cherries and everything is going way up...fuel prices.
Either grin and pay it; or get a taste for LOCAL produce straight from the grower.
2006-07-12 17:22:38 · answer #2 · answered by madamspinner2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know - that drives me crazy!!!
It's supply and demand - cherries are big in the summer, and the rainiers I've only seen in the summer. Up here - they go as high as $8.99/lb!!!
I went to a farmers market and one of the merchants had both bing and rainier - but she mentioned that her crop wasn't all that great this summer - so I think the practice is to jack up the price on the scarce supply that they have.
2006-07-12 17:27:46 · answer #3 · answered by Pask 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the storms where the cherries were grown. The crops aren't as good, therefore the price goes up.
2006-07-12 17:22:38 · answer #4 · answered by Riss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But cherries aren't gas.
My mom paid $1.99. Depends on where you live and how pelntiful something is within an area.
wow. some ppl just dont have the luck....
2006-07-12 17:22:35 · answer #5 · answered by tmbrian_008 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
welll thats not the same ..gass and cherries ,u can go with out eating cherries but u can't go without having gas ... so well there is nothing we could do about it
2006-07-13 10:42:40 · answer #6 · answered by Boo! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
president bush = sh!tty economy = high prices = ridiculously expensive cherries
or its that cherries are SOOO good that chances are you just can't pass them up so perhaps thats why the "farmers union" ( haha FU ) decides that they can make cherries as expensive as they want. who knows.
2006-07-12 17:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by maaaaaaahrhria 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too much rain in Northern California.
2006-07-12 17:28:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hadn't noticed, but we have two huge cherry trees and you are welcome to have as many as you want.
2006-07-12 17:52:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah....America. Land of the greedy :).
2006-07-12 17:21:19 · answer #10 · answered by ome6a1717 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋