Apples...$3.49 a pound!

I wonder if they are cheaper at a Farmer's Market. I don't eat apples, so that won't affect me, but I've noticed other fruits I like are quite up there in the price department. It also seems like the place with the cheapest fruit isn't the place with the freshest fruit. The place I find the freshest fruit is also the place with the highest price.

That's crazy where do you shop. I really haven't checked the price of apples lately but they have oranges here for 33cents a pound.

My jaw is touching the ground!!!!! Whats going on, and I need to plant an apple tree! I cant believe that! This is horrible. I have not seen prices rise that high for apples yet, and I sure hope they dont and time soon. I love apples, and I would be sad to have to stop eating them!

I've noticed that alot of fruits and veggies are getting too high. Apples in our area are about $4.00 for a 3Lb. bag...oranges are a little higher. You just can't afford them. I plan to look at the roadside stalls this summer for our fruits and veggies. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]

Wow, that's expensive apples. I usually buy them in a three pound bag and pay about $4 - $5. At that rate, $3.49 a pound would cost way too much.

Wooohhoo, that is really expensive type of apples, are they GOLDEN APPLES? heheh. Apples here are expensive too, but not too much like yours for a single. We can buy apples here for one kilo costing $2.35. But it depends on the type of apple, the green crunchy ones are a bit expensive than the red ones. The green apples costs about $ 2.84 a kilo. If that will be the price for one piece of apples there, yes you are right, they can rot and nobody would be able to buy such a costly fruit. Happy Mylotting!

Thank goodness I am not a big fan of apples, so it won't bother me much, but I DO buy two (Mcintosh) apples a month though. Talk about prices on the rise, I always buy the same, cheap generic dish liquid and it has always been 79 cents, well two weeks ago it was 1.10 and now it is 1.89! I was so pissed, I left the store and went to the dollar store where I got some for a dollar! Why is this happening? Can't someone put a stop to this insane price raising? What is causing it? Can't the president freeze prices or something? I don't know why it is all happening and I sure don't like it one bit!

I haven't bought apples lately, last time we bought a bulk bag of 5 lbs for only like 4$. They were smaller apples but led to a lot of servings! We ate them every day and couldn't even finish them all. I remember it was 4$ b/c right next to it was carmel apples - 6 carmel apples were 4$. That's when I realized the 5 lb bag was not only healthier but a much better deal. I wonder if it is because the type of apples i bought weren't as pricy or what, but I'll keep an eye out next time I'm at the store and see if they are more expensive now.

That's terrible.In our country,it's very very cheaper than yours.er…Do you buy the apples? It's each kg apply sells ?3--4

I paid 95 cents a pound for some Golden Delicious apples last week. My sister got an 8 pound bag of Granny Smiths for $5.99 a few days later. Some apples around here cost a little bit more, but nothing like the $3.49 a pound you saw.

Maybe they were organic??? Usually, around here(Arkansas) apples are about $1.50 per pound. I was out earlier and saw some for 69 cents per pound. I try not to pay more than a dollar a pound unless one of my boys is begging and they are small apples (they last longer). There is no way I would pay $3.49 a pound. I don't like to pay that much for milk. lol

Wow, that's just plain old crazy. I couldn't imagine paying that much for apples. I could tell you what exactly apples are costing here. but I can tell you a couple weeks ago while walking through the produce section, i didn't pick up anything because i thought the prices were too high. But, 3.49? What a shame.

I am not sure how much the apples are in my stores but I know strawbeeries are like $3.99. alot of things have gone up food wise milk, the 99 cent budget meals have gone up a quarter the 99 cent pizzas gone up a quarter. It's crazy how things just keep going up and up. Food banks don't even have that much food to help pantries out. It's sad.

WHAT!? An apple cost US$3.49?That is like so so expensive,i can't believe who can eat that 3.49 apple and not feeling heart pain during recession.I don't see any rise of price in apple at my area,in fact the supermarkets are having promotions like 5 for $2 or what.By the way i am living in an asia country.i will definately not buy this apple but to walk past and laugh at myself about the kind of price for a apple.

Apples are about $1.80 per pound at our local Wal-Mart. Maybe the price increase has not hit here yet. Anyway, these increased food prices are why it now makes sense to grow food and sell some of the excess.

everything is just so darn expensive, it is hard when you don't have enough money to live on like me. I get very little fruit or vegetables in my diet at all. I don't know what to do anymore it is so bad.

If I go to Walmart and buy apples I could get a whole bag for maybe about 4 or 5 bucks. 3.49 is a lot of money for apples. That is so ridiculous. I would definitely pass them up as I am on a low income.

I don't usually buy apples this time of the year,but I know that I won't be buying them if they are that price. That is insane! I would never give that price for apples. I know that I hear that the price of produce is always going up but I had not heard about apples.

I just know that everything has gone sky high now. I cannot walk out of the market without spending $50 dollars instead of 20 I use to. I hate it and gas prices are on the rise once again. I do not know how we are going to survive.

Yea we pay about the same in GA as you pay for them in your area a lot of things went up in the last few months but like you said they can sit on the shelves and rot.Iam thinking about looking for an apple orchid to go and pick some from their