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| These oranges are great and they don't even say "Sunkist" on them! Aloha, Check out my opinion article in the (02-22-13) edition of the Kaua'i Garden Island news,"Farmers market or Costco?" http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-friday-feb/article_2fc5deac-7cce-11e2-a7da-0019bb2963f4.html |
Papayas are not as easy to come by at the local farmers markets in the winter months, and when you do come across a nice papaya you can pay upwards of $2.00 per papaya whereas in the summertime when they are plentiful you can buy them, 3 for $1.00.
I noticed at the Kapa'a farmers market that many of the vendors have the same looking medium sized uniformed shaped papaya and others have really nice Pineapples. I ask the vendors did you buy these at Costco? They all respond, "no were not allowed to do that," however when I pointed out a label hanging off one of the Pineapples a woman finally broke and admitted she bought it at Costco.
I can recognize a Costco papaya and Costco Pineapple a mile away. I have no problem with people making an honest buck, in fact the free enterprise system is what America is all about. I do not want to go to a farmers market and buy inflated Costco produce, it's not fair to the vendors that are actually farmers selling their own products which is what the farmers market is all about.
A visitor told me she was surprised the local oranges said Sunkist on them, I guess the vendors tell them that's how they picked them right of the trees.
Now if only Costco had a guy with a machete opening up coconuts and selling them for next to nothing we'd have it all.
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-friday-feb/article_2fc5deac-7cce-11e2-a7da-0019bb2963f4.html
