* Am I the only person who has noticed how cheap, big (and good quality) pineapples are at the moment? I don't normally notice them, but this year they have caught my attention and we've bought a few since my daughter has decided they are just about her favourite fruit. A $3 gigantic one does last a long time, cut up in the fridge.
* Radio National this morning was talking about some Queensland strawberry farmers going out of business because of the ridiculous oversupply which is seeing them sold for $1 a punnet (less than the cost of production.) While farmers not having the business sense to see an oversupply coming is part of the problem, they did talk about the big supermarket contracts with set prices as being relevant too. I guess it's sort of obvious that something goes wrong in situations like this, but is doing anything other than letting the market sort itself out worse than the disease? I don't entirely trust the distorting power of the big supermarket contracts, though.
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