[justhw]

Most vegetable/fruit prices seems cheaper on the west coast. I assume because most are produced and in California and don't have the added transportation costs?

[dannyw]

Logistics make up the bulk of most cheaper unit cost goods.

The price a farmer gets is peanuts per unit.

Less applicable to an iPhone, but very applicable to produce or even toilet paper.

[kube-system]

> The price a farmer gets is peanuts per unit.

Which is probably where that informal use of 'peanuts' comes from.

[ayocado]

I would assume so as well. Generally produce apear cheaper in West/South although organic avocados are bucking this trend

[rkagerer]

Up here north of the border, food (along with everything else) on the west coast in BC tends to be slightly more expensive than it is in e.g. Ontario. This is an interesting site, would love a Cannuck version.

[getwiththeprog]

Probably because avocados are less popular in the Mid-North, so they sell them for less.

[candiodari]

It'd be interesting to evaluate this because unlike iPhone, fruit can trivially be substituted. In other words: the margins on them are what capitalism predicts: essentially nothing. This even goes for the aldi store as a whole.

It does not apply to specialist medicine, and only to a very limited extent to Apple products. So Apple can "enshittify": extract the maximum the market is willing to bear. They can steer demand. Aldi cannot.

[ayocado]

It is also interesting how some products are just marked up for NYC only https://www.aldipricemap.com/earthly_grains_instant_jasmine_...

[refurb]

I also assume suppliers are regional as well. Different supplier, different product, different prices.