Also komme ich ursprünglich aus Polen. Meine Mutter hat gerade ein Bild von Erdbeeren geteilt, die sie heute auf einem Markt gekauft haben (Spitzenzeitensaison). Sie bezahlte 1,76 Euro pro kg. So wie es passiert, haben wir gerade eine Schachtel mit 400 g niederländischen Erdbeeren bei AH für 7,47 EUR/kg gekauft (es ist gerade zum Verkauf angeboten). Lassen Sie mich nicht einmal mit Himbeeren, Blaubeeren und Kosten für rote Beeren anfangen. Sie sind hier so teuer, ich esse sie selten. Während der Saison sind sie in Polen ein Grundnahrungsmittel (einschließlich Backen, Abendessen, Frühstück, Mittagessen und Marmeladen für den Winter). Ich weiß nicht, was Sie dazu halten, aber ich würde die Früchte lieber genießen, wenn es in der Saison zu einem günstigen Preis ist, und es dann fast das ganze Jahr über zur Verfügung stellen, aber als Seltenheit für die Reichen.
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Von chibi_nibi
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Labor intensive and expensive transport. When plucked the clock begins ticking for the fresh ones, berries will spoil quickly.
What you can do is grow them yourself, berries aren’t that difficult.
Picking berries is very labour intensive. Labour is expensive. Berries also spoil quickly. The result is that berries are expensive. 🤷♀️
Het is de schuld van de rabobank
I can’t really tell you why they are so expensive other than labour cost, but having had strawberries in Poland when in season, I unfortunately also have to tell you the Polish ones taste vastly better.
Every time I’m on holiday (today I’m in Austria), I’m astounded by how much better the selection of fresh items (vegetables, fruit, meat) is compared to the Netherlands. Both the variety, quality, and price are significantly better.
Something is seriously wrong in the Netherlands we seem to be paying out of our arse for mediocre quality.
Supermarkets only accept a very small amount of strawberries harvested. Like only the top 10% looking ones are ‚good enough‘ to end up there, which makes it very expensive.
Farmers stores (from my experience, although I’m sure there are more options) generally do it a bit differently. They still separate the berries by quality, but just also offer the worse ones for a better price.
Roughly the €1,75/kg price you mentioned would be difficult in season but like, everything’s more expensive here, but you can get a lot better prices than AH if you go to some other place. The farm itself is obviously the best place but those aren’t in every area of the country, but even a more general fruit and veg store should be decent
Have you ever been to the market, my friend? I could have bought an entire box of raspberries(12 of the little ones, so 3 kilo) for 5 euros. Same goes for strawberry, they sell them by the bucket for 1.25 a kilo. Yes, it will not be grade A, but I doubt the ones seen here are of similar quality (optically and consistency, not taste) as the ones in Albert Heijn.
As the other user mentioned: you don’t really pay for the product, you pay for the supply chain
1. You’re right
2. The main difference between Poland and the Netherlands is the price of labour, because they have to be hand picked. This is done by minimum wage workers (and even in the Netherlands for a large part by Polish workers) but minimum wage in the Netherlands is 2,5 times that in Poland. Another reason is the difference price of farming land.
3. You can find cheaper berries on your local produce market! Google „markt <name of your town>“ to find where and when it is. This is always going to have the best price for in-season fruits and vegetables. Also in my experience bell peppers are much cheaper on the markt.