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Turns out produce is pretty cheap when the government subsidizes you and you don’t have to transport it across the pacific for processing, and then ship it back across the pacific, including all the truckers, docks, rail yards, and warehouses in between until it finally makes it to your local grocery store!
And then the local grocery store wages, including corporate and management, building leases, equipment and IT, lighting...