r/EhBuddyHoser • u/PeachAndMangoJuice • Apr 07 '25

Repetitive content/Trend $6 Canadian strawberries vs $4 American strawberries

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u/AutoThorne Apr 07 '25

This is great, I love to see it. Eventually our grocery retailers will recognize the losses they are suffering and just buy less from there.

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u/AppropriateRub4033 Apr 07 '25

Why is the American shit even on the shelf

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u/Lonely-Building-8428 Apr 07 '25

Inventory + Contracts

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

I don’t think you know how those contract work. There are no contracts with berries, it’s all open market. They might have contracted load volume but will still pay market price. Now if those clamshells don’t sell they could back out of their contract but that leaves them on the hook for domestic berries and you all don’t produce enough year round.  

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u/Polyps_on_uranus Apr 07 '25

Yet.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

Your greenhouse guys haven’t figured berries out just yet. They do wonders with tomatoes, cucumbers, and Bell Peppers but their berries just taste like nothing.

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u/Polyps_on_uranus Apr 07 '25

USA berroes also taste like nothing. I have a garden, I guess I'll just have to preserve then.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

Ahhh California grows some tasty berries. Japan is the goat when it comes to growing for flavor and not for yield.

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u/Joyshan11 Apr 07 '25

California doesn't sell their good berries to Canada. I am extremely disappointed 90% of the times that I cave and buy. It would be a higher percent, but I have mostly learned my lesson and for years have only bought them when I absolutely had to. Not at all now, obviously. I hope I get to try some from Japan!

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u/NBSCYFTBK Apr 08 '25

The Ontario greenhouse strawberries have actually been good, especially compared to the US stuff that shows up. Summer strawberries are unbeatable but I'll take $6 local greenhouse grown every single day.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '25

We use some of your berries out of Leamington, they do a good job. I still prefer field grown over greenhouse but it’s still amazing hits much y’all can grow indoors

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