Good price! I love 🥑 toast for breakfast or lunch.

Must be an avocado glut. They're 69 cents at the grocery closest to me.

same here - 68 cents each. But the Walmart ones are tiny compared to what I can get at a better grocer - 2-3 times the size, although I do pay more. But since I only like them fresh and just perfectly ripe, I never purchase more than I can eat in a couple of days.

I do shop Walmart from time to time but never for produce. I just do not care for their quality compared to other places.

But the Walmart ones are tiny compared to what I can get at a better grocer

Actually, Walmart sells at least two different sizes of avocado many of the times I've been in there. I just checked online, they have the regular (small), the jumbo, and organic ones that looked medium and were a lighter green.

I just do not care for their quality compared to other places.

I'd be interested to find out how that works. The Haas avocados (over 90% of avocados consumed in the U.S. are Haas) I bought were small, perfect, no scratches, bruises, etc.

I suspect, really, that the small Haas avocados come in on a truck from Mexico and the stores all get their small ones off the same truck. It is difficult to imagine some store buyer looking through a semi with several hundred thousand avocados. So I don't think there are any quality differences in most small avocados sold at different stores.

Kroger 2 for $1 today. Medium size and various ripeness. My granddaughter eats one per day so we buy plenty.

We make guacamole three times a week.

Fresh cilantro was 58 cents a bunch. Limes 33 cents each. Perfect compliments.

Oh, there is a world of difference in quality!! I can even tell the difference between the premium grocer's avocados and those found at Safeway....and even those are superior to Walmart!!

Not all grocers buy from the same suppliers. Premium quality produce comes from premium suppliers. No one is handpicking produce out of a semi!!

Seems that I get my best avocados from Trader Joe's. Usually 1.29 (prices at TJ's are stable) but they've been absolutely perfect every time, if not ripe then they ripen nicely. We often just cut in half and put Italian dressing in the hole and eat with a spoon.

So, still curious, I have sent a question about avocado differences quality and grocery store marketing to the regional marketing executive from Haas. I'm interested to see what he has to say.

We've been getting them at Aldi for 39 cents each. They are small but have been delicious. (They also have been having the smallest pits I have ever seen in an avocado.) I just eat a whole one instead of a half one. Dice them in the shell, add a tiny bit of salt and eat with a spoon.

(My local Wal-Mart has beautiful produce.)

I believe Haas is a variety of avocado, not a brand. Like Granny Smith as a variety of apples, or Roma tomatoes. Different from Chiquita or Dole bananas, which are brands (of actually the same type of banana, the Cavendish).

In my area, Trader Joes produce is very so-so. Some of it even less than so-so. We buy a number of things at TJs but not produce. Avocados from "better" grocery stores do seem to be of higher quality.

At certain times of the year, many of the avocados in US stores are from Mexico. So what? It's because of weather and production costs. A lot of Mexican grown produce is produced by US and Canadian produce companies anyway.

I didn't know you could freeze them! A quick search tells me I can buy them frozen. Maybe I haven't paid enough attention but I don't think I've ever seen them in store.

They're always priced low for Super Bowl.

I just bought some nice big avocado's 🥑 at Kroger today. They were the larger size and 68c each. I put them in the fridge to keep them from getting soft and over ripe. I take one out a day before I will be using it and it's just about perfect.

We have a tree...best deal of all!

Last year at this time they were 39 cents at Aldi's.

At certain times of the year, many of the avocados in US stores are from Mexico. So what?

Indeed, no one made an issue of that, wonder why you did so. Right now because of weather, many Haas avocados are coming in from Mexico. I believe most stores are buying those avocados, and probably the small avocados in all the stores come in on the same trucks and are Haas..

Avocados from "better" grocery stores do seem to be of higher quality.

The exec from the company that sells Haas hopefully will reply and be able to shed some light on this claim, I'm curious to know more about avocado differences, grading, sales and marketing.

"Indeed, no one made an issue of that, wonder why you did so."

You mentioned it so if you agree it doesn't matter (since at any particular point in time, it could have been a truck from California), why did YOU mention it?

"The exec from the company that sells Haas "

Since it's a type and not a brand, there are probably HUNDREDS of entities that grow and sell Haas avocados. There is a Haas industry association, like any industry organization. You're maybe confusing an industry organization with a production or coop source of the product. Not the same thing at all. You may have contacted ONE company that sells this type of avocado but there are dozens and dozens of them.

On refrigerating unripe avocados-

I remember hearing somewhere and sometime, not recently and not from a source I remember, that unripe avocados that are refrigerated will never ripen properly.

We don't buy ahead for that reason and keep them at room temperature until used.

You mentioned it

You made an issue of it.

I should check my local store for some avocados too. Hopefully they're not sold out due to the football game tomorrow. Thanks for the idea! :)

You put the avocado in the fridge once it becomes ripe. It keeps it at that level of ripeness.

You put the avocado in the fridge once it becomes ripe. It keeps it at that level of ripeness.

Yup. I have 8 avocados on the counter right now. They go into the refrig when they start to soften.

Unripe avocados that get chilled too much? Yes, those won't ripen. Found that out the hard way, living in Wisconsin. Now, when we buy avocados in the winter, we don't leave them in the car if we decide to stop to eat. I take them w/ me inside the restaurant.

The coupons.com app has free avacados up to $2 from any store. I bought a big green one from Walmart that was priced $1.47. I’ve noticed that the quality of produce varies even within the same store chain. Especially Aldi’s. The store by us always has nice looking produce. Another store about 5 miles away has old looking, sometimes moldy produce.

Chloebud, I'm jealous ... no avocado trees here in northern Canada. The cheapest I've seen them here 4 @ $6.00 or $1.60 ea. They're surprisingly in good shape seeing the distance they have to travel.

Ladydi, they actually get pricey here in Southern CA, too. I've seen nice ones @ 2 for $3 or maybe 4 for $5. They do get cheaper around Super Bowl time. We also have a lemon tree, and lemons here rarely go below 50 cents each, unless you buy really small ones. Seems crazy since lemon trees are everywhere here, and you literally can't even give them all away.