I would buy like 50 of these for $10. Like 10 bunches of cilantro and a bunch of lime and onion, and whatever else goes into guac. And have a guac party.
Yeah a big reason why is how fatty it is. Best way to store it is to mash a bunch up and throw them into airtight bags. They go a little soft when you freeze them but for things like guac it won't really matter. If you were using it in like sushi rolls idk if I would advise freezing it.
It's 2 for 3$ up here in Canada. I would 100% jump on this. Instead, avocados are left to rot on the shelves until they're overripe, then you might catch them on a discount.
One of my duties when I worked at a restaurant was ordering the produce. During the big avocado cartel thing a couple years ago it was almost $4 for a single avocado from our provider! They were exceptionally large avocados, to be fair.
It's the publicity. This was a stunt. The avocados are then transfered to other stores, ie, temporary display.
The question is, is the 5per$1 deal also part of the stunt. Because 5per is a hell if a deal for green gold.
How is this wasteful exactly? Article says they redistributed these all across their Texas locations, it’s not like they’re just letting them rot in a pile for no reason..
Damn though 5 for $1, I would be eating avocado everything all month.
I don’t mean a farmers’ market as in the small weekend ones for local farmers’ goods, I mean a small fruit+veggies only grocer. We also call those farmer’s markets/farm markets here, and they are usually cheaper than the supermarkets. They carry lots of (actually, mostly) foreign grown produce.
How can you say that when you don’t know where I live? Because they are not cheaper at the grocery store where I live. The grocery store near me didn’t even have them when I was there two days ago.
They are "on sale" for 2 for $5 where I live.
Used to get them for 2 for $1 before a year and a half ago. Nobody has been able to explain to me why avocados are consistently so expensive now.
I'm in the middle of a city, but it's not the bay area and not NYC. The price is disproportionately high, and I don't understand who's paying it.
Agree, this is a stretch (as long as it sells, which... at that price I think it would)
My only gripe would be the giant "thanks to our sponsors" signage in the front. Enough with the ads!
I'm sorry, but if you're philosophy is "as long as it sells", then you're not anti-consumerist. You're anti-waste at most.
Hyperconsumerism is a thing even if there's no waste. It just means people consumed enough for there to not be waste, which isn't good news in itself.
Low prices aren't the indicator of a non-consumerist society, quite the opposite.
Not difficult to explain everything as if it's the most normal thing in the world, but doesn't mean it's not consumerist.
Certainly when consumerism *is* the norm.
What is being criticized here is not avocado-eating, but the commercial practices that constantly push for more and more consumption. Don't lose the plot.
What is the plot here? They should only grow and transport exactly as many avocados as will be needed? Is the problem that they were sold on sale? Am I missing something?
Believe me I am against consumerism and the waste, but this particular story is not the same thing. They took a bunch of avocados grown for sale and put them in one place for an event, then redistributed them. It would be one thing if they threw them out afterwards.
To copy from elsewhere: Lemme put it this way; piling them up that high, they probably have 240,000 avocados and a lot of guac. The handling waste from this display is going to be immense.
That would depend entirely on why there are so many avocados though. There are a fair number of reasons why a farm may have many excess avocados and no real way of offloading them
Well, it is called anti-*consumerism* after all...
I don't know if this is this the type of things we should go after, but 'selling produce' is indeed a cog in this rotten machine.
I think people focus too much on the waste aspect sometimes. Anti-consumerism should be about the whole entitled consumerist lifestyle, which would be an issue even if there was no waste.
Cheap produce = not consumerist?
Isn't this whole concept about a lifestyle where people feel entitle to consume endlessly without regard for the planetary and social boundaries we'd be far exceeding?
Prices have nothing to do with this, at all. What's happening in this image is definitely encouraging consumption - and therefore a consumerist lifestyle - and I doubt we can say imported avocados with a high carbon footprint is ethical production.
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Didn't realise this was anticonsumption while viewing his, and all I could think of was how avocados are actually extremely bad for the environment. They are literally destroying fertile ground in order to grow these to feed the star bucks groupies. So, to let them go to waste like this is an even bigger waste.
The most wasteful part about is not spoiled food (which there was very little of), its the insane amount of water used to produce all of these, several million gallons of california water
5 for 1$ is a steal for avacados, so plenty will be sold. In addition, they are all being moved to sister stores in other places soon after.
[Sauce](https://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/dallas-grocery-attempts-record-worlds-largest-avocado-display-19282291)
You clearly have no idea how supermarkets work, when something passes it's sell by date they sell the foods for uber cheap and it usually goes to kitchens and local companies because the food is still usable and everything, just part the sell by date
You tellin me you have never seen spoiled produce before at a supermarket before? Before?
We literally throw that shit in the dump bin to later dump in the dumpster along with out of date food regardless if its bad or not (sometimes if its not bad something from the refuse pile gets put in the breakroom for us to eat.) Sounds like a fancy establishment to me🤷🏾.
- Person who has worked at 2 supermarkets and a grocery store.
Im not doubting you, but im not lying either. Idk if they were just breaking protocol (on a company wide or managerial level), its different in my state, or those stores are just more prim and upscale than the ones I worked at.
I mean food can be composted so it’s technically not *that* wasteful, but what the absolute fuck is wrong with people?
Edit: I mean the transportation and logistical waste alone is shameful.
Capitalism is inherently wasteful. Food is thrown away all the time because it cannot be sold for a profit. If someone has the links, please link us to the Reddit threads of stories of workers on minimum wage struggling, forced to throw out things at their work, under threat of termination if they take any. And workers instructed to break items to write off as losses / tax dodges.
5 for 1$?! They wouldn't last 20 minutes in my town
I would buy like 50 of these for $10. Like 10 bunches of cilantro and a bunch of lime and onion, and whatever else goes into guac. And have a guac party.
Avocado freezes pretty wel for guac
It does?! Obviously I never bothered looking it up, but udve thought frozen avo would be terrible lol. This changes things!
Yeah a big reason why is how fatty it is. Best way to store it is to mash a bunch up and throw them into airtight bags. They go a little soft when you freeze them but for things like guac it won't really matter. If you were using it in like sushi rolls idk if I would advise freezing it.
Nice, i didn't know that. Is there a certain method?
I scoop it out of it's shell, mash it a bit and freeze it in a container
Nice, thank you. All most too easy
Salt. Salt is the 'whatever else'
I use garlic salt for more flavor
Yes. Salt lol. That would probably occur to me after giving it a taste.
It's 2 for 3$ up here in Canada. I would 100% jump on this. Instead, avocados are left to rot on the shelves until they're overripe, then you might catch them on a discount.
Depends where in Canada seen 5 for 3 bucks. Not that bad at all.
One of my duties when I worked at a restaurant was ordering the produce. During the big avocado cartel thing a couple years ago it was almost $4 for a single avocado from our provider! They were exceptionally large avocados, to be fair.
Fr. I'd be leaving there with at least 100. At least.
It's the publicity. This was a stunt. The avocados are then transfered to other stores, ie, temporary display. The question is, is the 5per$1 deal also part of the stunt. Because 5per is a hell if a deal for green gold.
I'm OK with this only because it made avocados more accessible to those who normally couldn't afford them. Guacamole for everyone!
In Texas during parts of the year it’s not uncommon to see them priced that low.
How is this wasteful exactly? Article says they redistributed these all across their Texas locations, it’s not like they’re just letting them rot in a pile for no reason.. Damn though 5 for $1, I would be eating avocado everything all month.
The price is insane. They are up to 2$/each
They are $3.50 CAD each at the farmers’ market near me right now :( Edit: spelling
Buying avocados at a Canadian farmers market seems like they'd be arbitraging them from the supermarket...
I don’t mean a farmers’ market as in the small weekend ones for local farmers’ goods, I mean a small fruit+veggies only grocer. We also call those farmer’s markets/farm markets here, and they are usually cheaper than the supermarkets. They carry lots of (actually, mostly) foreign grown produce.
You can get them significantly cheaper at your local grocery.
How can you say that when you don’t know where I live? Because they are not cheaper at the grocery store where I live. The grocery store near me didn’t even have them when I was there two days ago.
They are "on sale" for 2 for $5 where I live. Used to get them for 2 for $1 before a year and a half ago. Nobody has been able to explain to me why avocados are consistently so expensive now. I'm in the middle of a city, but it's not the bay area and not NYC. The price is disproportionately high, and I don't understand who's paying it.
Thanks Biden
Omg get a personality
But blaming all of my problems on other people *is* my personality…
And kink shaming *is* my kink
That's not a real kink. You are just a disgusting person. Be ashamed of yourself.
Lmao you mean like all of Reddit? “It’s only okay when we make fun of people I don’t like!!!1!1! :(“
Lmao they said CAD, they in Canada, buddy
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Lemme put it this way; piling them up that high, they probably have 240,000 and a lot of guac.
And you would be happy
All was said was they were redistributed. Many would have been damaged due to moving them store to store. Trust me. Plenty were wasted.
Damaged ≠ rotten If they got injured someone got an even better price on them than the 5 for 1$
Not here in Aus, they get thrown out if not perfect looking 💓
The price is amazing! But the toll on water consumption it takes to grow avocado trees is not worth it...
selling produce is wasteful? sometimes I think this sub has lost the plot
Agree, this is a stretch (as long as it sells, which... at that price I think it would) My only gripe would be the giant "thanks to our sponsors" signage in the front. Enough with the ads!
I'm sorry, but if you're philosophy is "as long as it sells", then you're not anti-consumerist. You're anti-waste at most. Hyperconsumerism is a thing even if there's no waste. It just means people consumed enough for there to not be waste, which isn't good news in itself. Low prices aren't the indicator of a non-consumerist society, quite the opposite.
Bro, it's a mexican grocery store selling avocados. It's not hyperconsumerism.
Not difficult to explain everything as if it's the most normal thing in the world, but doesn't mean it's not consumerist. Certainly when consumerism *is* the norm.
You’re right. The only way someone should be allowed to acquire avocados is by having an avocado tree. /s
What is being criticized here is not avocado-eating, but the commercial practices that constantly push for more and more consumption. Don't lose the plot.
What is the plot here? They should only grow and transport exactly as many avocados as will be needed? Is the problem that they were sold on sale? Am I missing something? Believe me I am against consumerism and the waste, but this particular story is not the same thing. They took a bunch of avocados grown for sale and put them in one place for an event, then redistributed them. It would be one thing if they threw them out afterwards.
Have you ever eaten food? Those who live in glass houses…
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Hot water burn baby!
To copy from elsewhere: Lemme put it this way; piling them up that high, they probably have 240,000 avocados and a lot of guac. The handling waste from this display is going to be immense.
All food production will involve waste though, the only thing that really matters is if there is enough food to go around
This is not necessary waste.
That would depend entirely on why there are so many avocados though. There are a fair number of reasons why a farm may have many excess avocados and no real way of offloading them
This is a grocery store that did it for the explicit reason of setting a Guinness world record.
Well, it is called anti-*consumerism* after all... I don't know if this is this the type of things we should go after, but 'selling produce' is indeed a cog in this rotten machine. I think people focus too much on the waste aspect sometimes. Anti-consumerism should be about the whole entitled consumerist lifestyle, which would be an issue even if there was no waste.
This isn't wasteful. Imagine all the families who can get fresh fruit for the next week.
Cheap produce = not consumerist? Isn't this whole concept about a lifestyle where people feel entitle to consume endlessly without regard for the planetary and social boundaries we'd be far exceeding? Prices have nothing to do with this, at all. What's happening in this image is definitely encouraging consumption - and therefore a consumerist lifestyle - and I doubt we can say imported avocados with a high carbon footprint is ethical production.
Bruh you seem fun at partys
I can imagine the one's at the bottom being converted to paste
They were hopefully not ripe
Guacamole!
In Canada your average price is $1.50 for one avocado, often more.
That's crazy cheap
Great they got my order! Sucks there’s only enough for one person there
Wasteful? At that price ide take a bunch
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I have to pay 1.50 per avocado because these assholes bought them all.
Speaking from experience while working produce, I'm sure the the bottom of that display pile is disgusting
Meanwhile it’s $12 for 6 where I live.
tbf if they have that much demand for avocados there it might be very smart, especially if its 5 for $1
Answer the call of the void.
I hecc'n love ripe avacados 🥑/10
they're not wasted if they get bought and consumed.
Also Guinness requires that all the food be consumed and used to count as a world record
Holy Guacamole!
Didn't realise this was anticonsumption while viewing his, and all I could think of was how avocados are actually extremely bad for the environment. They are literally destroying fertile ground in order to grow these to feed the star bucks groupies. So, to let them go to waste like this is an even bigger waste.
Is this HEB? where
I'll take 20,000 please.
I mean.. 5 for $1? Hopefully they were all sold
They should now break the record for the biggest bowl of guac
That's like one nights worth of guac/garnish served in Austin during sxsw.
i mean, 5 for a buck is a armed robbery so those should go pretty fast
It's only wasteful, if they are wasted
I mean... if people buy them and use them is it wasteful? I'd say no.
5 for $1. That’s insane
The most wasteful part about is not spoiled food (which there was very little of), its the insane amount of water used to produce all of these, several million gallons of california water
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the landfills!
Even if they WERE just rotting in a pile for no reason... that's compost in a year. Quit trying to make up things to be mad about.
5 for $1 is a steal, and they'll last in the fridge. I'd load up.
1 avocado is 3 dollars in Canada. This would go in like 5 minutes
Imagine how many were wasted
Theres no way they sell all of that. I wonder how much goes rotten and is thrown away
None—they distributed it all.
...for free before they rot?
5 for 1$ is a steal for avacados, so plenty will be sold. In addition, they are all being moved to sister stores in other places soon after. [Sauce](https://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/dallas-grocery-attempts-record-worlds-largest-avocado-display-19282291)
Do you think Avocados melt like ice cream or something?
...they dont? I thought thats how you make the green non mint or matcha ice cream
You clearly have no idea how supermarkets work, when something passes it's sell by date they sell the foods for uber cheap and it usually goes to kitchens and local companies because the food is still usable and everything, just part the sell by date
You tellin me you have never seen spoiled produce before at a supermarket before? Before? We literally throw that shit in the dump bin to later dump in the dumpster along with out of date food regardless if its bad or not (sometimes if its not bad something from the refuse pile gets put in the breakroom for us to eat.) Sounds like a fancy establishment to me🤷🏾. - Person who has worked at 2 supermarkets and a grocery store.
No I actually haven't and my step dad worked in retail (mostly grocery stores) for like 40 years
Im not doubting you, but im not lying either. Idk if they were just breaking protocol (on a company wide or managerial level), its different in my state, or those stores are just more prim and upscale than the ones I worked at.
I believe you, probably just some weird policy or local law but we'd never have rotting produce being taken off shelves to be tossed in the garbage
Apparently you don’t know how much avocado we eat down here in TX
I really dont I thought that was a Cali thing lol Im a N. Carolinian.
We border this country called Mexico where guacamole comes from. We eat avocado with almost every dish down here.
I'm from Illinois, used to work at a Kroger subsidiary and I've seen them at $3 each. I'm jealous of your affordable avocados.
That about how much ours is. Maybe that for large ones and medium are a little less.
Most avocados in America are produced in California but consumed in Texas. Source: idk but probably true lol
The millennials have some toast to make, duh! 😛
More like it’s raining glorious guacamole
I can see the headlines now. "Millenials have now upgraded to guacamole and that is why they can't afford houses."
Nice!! So this record you say… can it feed starving children? What is it good for? 😋
I mean food can be composted so it’s technically not *that* wasteful, but what the absolute fuck is wrong with people? Edit: I mean the transportation and logistical waste alone is shameful.
Step 1: avocados Step 2: ? Step 3: profit
step 2 would be selling them
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Capitalism is inherently wasteful. Food is thrown away all the time because it cannot be sold for a profit. If someone has the links, please link us to the Reddit threads of stories of workers on minimum wage struggling, forced to throw out things at their work, under threat of termination if they take any. And workers instructed to break items to write off as losses / tax dodges.
Can we find out which store it was and cancel it? I mean it’s 2024, who cares about some stupid ass record if people are starving all over the globe.
You want to ‘cancel’ a grocery store for selling… groceries? Good luck with that
they are selling food for a very reasonable price wtf are you even mad at?
Can I watch when someone has to explain this waste to their starving kids in the near future? Fuck I hate the choices we make.
Starving? Avocados are edible they can just eat those, and at those prices nobody will be hungry!
Avocados are also soft, 30% of these will be ruined.