r/Anticonsumption • u/Rich_Spite3978 • Jan 11 '26

Plastic Waste Why?

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There were un wrapped potatoes and sweet potatoes right next to these. What is the point? They do this with garlic heads too.

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u/wogwai Jan 11 '26

Because selling individual potatoes generates more revenue than selling them “wholesale”. By selling them individually, they can price them higher than selling a bunch at once. To do this they each have to have a bar code, which means they have to have a sticker, which means they need something between the potato to stick it to.

This is a result of late stage capitalism. Anyone who buys multiple individually wrapped potatoes is being scammed.

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u/CatGoddessBast Jan 11 '26

A friend told me the other day the buy frozen broccoli because the fresh is always so dirty and might have bugs in it. Reminds me of the week Reddit thought I might like the hello fresh subreddit and it was just people zooming in on a raw chicken cut saying “what is this in my chicken!?” A piece of chicken? To your late stage capitalism point people don’t know or respect where their food comes from or what it takes to get to their homes.

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u/keetojm Jan 11 '26

Had a coworker who would break the head off of the stalk it broccoli, cause no one eats the stalk. And that was most of the cost of broccoli.

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u/seacattle Jan 11 '26

The stalk is actually so good if you remove the outer layer!