Organic Red Raspberries, 6 Oz

Amazon Fresh raspberries are fresh and delicious. What more can you wish for?

I buy these organic raspberries (usually Driscolls) through Amazon Prime delivery from Whole Foods Market. Sometimes the berries are very fresh and not damaged. In the past few orders, the berries were placed on the bottom of the bag and heavier items on top of them. Also some berries were moldy. Sure, Amazon offers returns but the shoppers could select and pack a little better. Sometimes I need fresh berries for recipes and they should not be smashed. When they’re in good condition, they’re delicious.

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Thes ate better than blue berries, but they go bad quickly. Eat them them quickly. If you try to keep them more than two days they will spoil. It’s frustrating to have to through food out. They are also very expensive too much to throw away.

I eat a lot of organic blue berries & black berries. I buy fresh when in season and the chances of getting good ones are higher. I keep frozen blue berries in my freezer at all times. I decided to try the organic fresh raspberries because the fresh organic blackberries I’d received on my previous order were soooo good & raspberries are suppose to be very good for us too. The raspberries were’t worth the money. Over half of them were over ripe, mushy and many had already fallen apart in the unopened package. In just rinsing a few in my hand, under slowly running water, I lost several more. They simply turned immediately to mush & fell apart. The flavor of those that didn’t fall apart was good. I don’t know if it’s because raspberries are hollow inside that they’re more fragile or if they were just older. What I do know is I can’t afford to wash most of the package down the drain.

ATTEN. AMAZON FRESH: 2 SUGGESTIONS

I used to tip at 7.5% on fresh orders. Then it went down to 7% >>>6.5%>>>6.0%.>>>5.5% and now I’m down to 5%. I’m on a fixed income. When we do get a COLA raise in our SS, it’s, maybe, enough to cover the increase in our basic Medicare premium. I’m not paying extra for produce that I wouldn’t buy if I were to go to the market myself.

Some pickers & packers are really good about picking good produce–not so far from ripe there’s no ripening them in a day or two those items that will continue to ripen up on the counter or window sill but not over ripe and spoiling either. Others, I think, just grab the first one they see regardless what condition it’s in. I also don’t know if the drivers pick & pack their own deliveries or if others do it ahead of time and the groceries sit, waiting for their
2- hour delivery window.

Amazon is good about refunding when you complain to them, but that doesn’t make up for not having the produce you wanted. You’re stuck without the produce until your next order or someone has to go to the grocery store to buy it again. In that instance, you might as well forego buying from Amazon Fresh altogether and just get someone to go to the grocery store for you.

I have a couple suggestions for Amazon Fresh:
1) Teach the people who pick & pack produce what is good produce and what isn’t. The firmness, the color- of ripe for each item -no mold & no wilt. ie Blueberries should be blue–black berries should be black–not red in either case. Red isn’t ripe and they won’t ripen up. I know, I’ve tried. I’ve even set some outside in the sun to ripen up–it didn’t work. Greens shouldn’t be yellowed or brown on the edges nor should they be wilted. They also shouldn’t be mushy or slimy.

Produce is fragile and has to be treated that way or when/where bumped, banged–bruised- it will begin to rot almost immediately.

2) Produce and other refrigerated items, must be kept cold–refrigerated– both prior to delivery and when riding around in a delivery vehicle. Otherwise you end up with mold, spoiling or wilted items. There’s a company on the east coast last summer that the hosts/anchors on CNBC were raving about. They said the produce they received
was always excellent. Then they interviewed the CEO. AH HA! Aside from delivering only top quality produce,
all their delivery vehicles were refrigerated. Unfortunately, that company is only n the east coast– I think in the tri-state region around NY/NJ and it’s not a public company.

Amazon is investing a fortune in new delivery vans. I think it would be worth it to make some refrigerated
for grocery delivery all across this country–not just in the hottest climate regions.

Putting the customer first is top priority for Amazon– that’s how to have happy, loyal Fresh customers.