{"id":5847,"date":"2014-07-25T22:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T06:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=5847"},"modified":"2014-07-25T22:43:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T06:43:19","slug":"buying-the-not-so-perfect-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/buying-the-not-so-perfect-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying The Not So Perfect Produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this neat video today called &#8220;Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables&#8221; which was neat is it revolved around taking fruits and vegetables that would normally be deemed as unsellable where people would sell it at a discount.  Interestingly enough, people bought it.  This I the video for those who never saw it:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2nSECWq_PE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you think about it, it is simply marketing perception on why no one would buy it in the first place.  However, package and present it in a different way and people will embrace it.  Makes you wonder why every grocery chain doesn\u2019t implement a system or program like this.  I know for myself usually these kinds of produce are usually bad looking because they are literally going bad as opposed to simply having a cosmetic issue.  If businesses created something like this though it would definitely help with the perception and I\u2019m sure a lot of people would save a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>Makes me think of how even for simple items like an apple many people would take the visually unappealing ones and simply make it into say apple juice or cider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this neat video today called &#8220;Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables&#8221; which was neat is it revolved around taking fruits and vegetables that would normally be deemed as unsellable where people would sell it at a discount. Interestingly enough, people bought it. This I the video for those who never saw it: If you think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1305,5075,5074,123],"class_list":["post-5847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-groceries","tag-marketing-perception","tag-non-perfect-item","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/924991_10264630.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1wj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}