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   Hello Richard!   
      
   ** On Monday 13.09.21 - 08:28, you wrote to me:   
      
    RM> People are looking for cheap apples. So you check where   
    RM> you can source them the cheapest in a quality that you can   
    RM> sell. Then you take the option that gives you the most   
    RM> competitive advantage. If people do not like quality or   
    RM> check the country of origin then you habe an incentive to   
    RM> check those. If you sell enough then the cheaper price   
    RM> trumps it.   
      
   Initially, I was actually perferring the Chilean brand (I     
   forget the name of the apple version) ..but that was before I     
   was paying attention to its imported status.  It was just one     
   of the cheapest a few times. But we're only talking about     
   50cents diff per lb.   
      
    AA>> At one point I was just looking at the cheapest apples   
    AA>> and buying those. Then I realized WTF am I doing and not   
    AA>> supporting my own country's apple farmers.   
      
    RM> It seems most Canadians do not think (yet) like you. It is   
    RM> supply and demand. If people ask for the cheapest apple   
    RM> possible, then you look where you can source that. If   
    RM> people are looking for domestic apples, you will look for   
    RM> a cheap Canadian source.   
      
   This was at a NoFrills chain store. I don't think there is a     
   customer ask-wishlist.  ;)  Most of the fresh wholefoods are     
   supplied at a warehouse depot and skids are auctioned off to     
   ANY of the chains that show up with their trucks.   
      
    AA>> Canadian grocer even import foreign apples when there are   
    AA>> plenty of domestic farmers.   
      
    RM> Because they are cheaper, and most people do not seem to   
    RM> care. If people would stop buying foreign apples, then he   
    RM> would immediately stop importing them. As long as people   
    RM> buy them, he has a price advantage of buying them.   
      
   What I think is *really* happening is that maybe the choices at     
   the distribution/warehouses can vary and they take what they     
   can get.  The importer makes the decisions, not the food chain?   
      
   I worked for a flower shop for a couple of summers in my teens.     
   In addition to working at the shop, my job was to drive to the     
   depot and pick up the flowers that the owner bid on and won.      
   The owner could only choose from the flower stock that the     
   importer provided.   
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