grocer

I wouldn't pay 60 cents for an apple that a grocer is selling for 40 cents.

Why would I value an apple higher than what a grocer is willing to sell?

Where places like Costco win is that almost everything is cheaper than your local grocer...

One somewhat interesting counterargument: if Asimov had been a grocer, he could have left his children a chain of profitable stores.

How about a grocer partering with recipes.com and guiding you aroud to ingredients you need?

If a grocer is willing to sell at 40 cents, I would never pay a 50% markup when I wouldn't have to, your assertion that I would notwithstanding.

In 1773, Sancho and his wife set up a grocer's shop in Westminster.

Why should a writer's legacy to his children be less than a grocer's?

Bottom line is, if a grocer is currently asking 40 cents for an apple, I will transact at that price no matter how much higher I 'value' that apple.

Note that this most likely not Ubest's pricing decision, but the convenience store or grocer retailer that sells the product to the end consumer.

This project came about from a interaction with my local grocer.

For the energy cost to get that stack of paper bags to your local grocer you could probably make and transport a hundred plastic bags.

In reality, in most transactions, both parties profit due to the fact that there is no fixed concept of "worth." The apple that you bought from your grocer for 50 cents was valued at 40 cents by him and 60 cents by you.

Now the fruit delivered to your grocer is also more sweet and sugary than these same fruits were centuries ago because they've bred them to please the customer, and that has some society issues that need to be addressed (being "healthy" and eating apples and bananas is too much like eating sugary snacks these days)...