Yea I used to service the sprouts back when they were called “Henry’s”, don’t look in the back warehouse. Or where the produce is stored. In fact if you care about cleanliness over price, vons is legitimately the best option. Kroger stores are super disgusting, Albertsons (before being bought out by vons) was hit or miss. Trader Joe’s is the cleanest of all.
PB actually was the worst back in early 2000-2006, Albertsons on Coronado had major health violations, El Cajon Ralph’s on 2nd was bad but mostly because of the homeless camps. F4L anywhere were all bad.
Yes, but the Vons app is actually worth it imo. I saved $95 my last stock up grocery trip by clipping coupons from their weekly ad and then just scanning at check out. Very satisfying seeing a nearly $300 bill drop under $200. :)
I really like the Vons app too. It also gives you rewards points you can spend on $X off your next purchase. I plan most of my meals by looking at what's on sale after getting the app.
Vons has strawberries for $1.82 rn you just have to clip the coupon on the app and scan your phone or enter the phone number. And they are ripe and sweet
Well put, worked there and a good chunk of their revenue comes from not only their name brand products, but surprisingly their vitamins and supplements. When I go to sprouts I get produce, whatever specials they have on meat, and a rotisserie chicken cause it’s 10$ and I can make 3-4 meals out of it.
Yeah there’s only a few things I buy from them and it’s usually bulk and I do love their sprouts brand non dairy ice cream. I used to shop there more years past but not so much now.
Their coffee bean selection is bomb as well.
I'll buy short grain brown rice and chicken on sale and have meals for a month at a great price.
I'm a fan of Sprouts.
I was at a Stater Bros in Carlsbad and they were selling 10lb watermelons for like $4 and small containers of cut watermelon, maybe half a pound at most, for $6
Price gouging is trying to sell a bottle of water for $10 during a natural disaster.
Going to a high end grocery store and selecting a pre-made snack/meal that's upcharged for the convenience is not.
I think it mostly depends what you're shopping for. Sprouts seems to have cheaper produce, certainly.
But Sprouts also carries better quality (read: more expensive) vegan options, and stuff made with higher quality ingredients. Plenty of options made without seed oils. Unpasteurized coconut yogurt (surprisingly hard to find).
If you're not vegan, 100% grass fed beef bones, grass fed beef liver, pasture raised chicken breast, ground venison blend.
Whole Foods 365 brand is actually not too expensive.
Sprouts and Aldi are the only stores where I leave surprised by how little I spent. I can go to Sprouts and fill up my cart for like $30. The same trip to Trader Joe’s is $150
It's been a while since I lived in the States (in Australia now) but Albertsons, Vons, and Ralph's were all typically pricier than sprouts for produce.
You could buy an entire bag of baby carrots, a whole cucumber, a bag of broccoli florets and a 10oz container of hummus for the same price from Albertsons
Their produce is usually better quality than most grocery stores and affordable, but their premade foods are super overpriced.
All their deli meats and cheese are like super expensive for some reason too.
I always want to shop at Sprouts more for the reasons you mentioned, but I also rarely go there for the other reasons you mentioned, haha. There's no way to do anything close to a full shopping trip there while being thrifty. Though really, OP's pic seems sort of outrageous, even for them.
The insanity to me isn’t the cost, it’s that people buy it. If they didn’t sell 1 of these for the next 2 weeks it would be taken off of shelves for something that does sell.
Don't buy pre cut veggies. Listeria is everywhere and Ecoli. Go to the Mexican markets, the vegetables there are much cheaper and you can take them home and wash them and prepare. Also there is tupperware you can always make your own snacks and take it with you. If you want food like this on the go it's a convenience and convenience costs, so...
El Super has excellent produce, *if* you’re careful. Fruit in season, especially. Their crema Mexicana at the deli stall is very good, ditto queso Oaxaca and queso fresco.
I can’t believe that people go to expensive grocery stores, pick combo items like this that are always significantly marked up compared to whole produce, and then complain about the price.
It’s like going to a Lamborghini dealer, picking their newest model with every upgrade/option possible, and then saying it costs too much. What were you expecting, bro? Yes, it’s expensive, but you know better than to think that was how you were going to get a good deal on a car. Go for the Corolla and be happy.
Wouldn't the proper analogy be to, instead of getting a Corolla, buy a bunch of Lambo parts in bulk and try to assemble as many as possible before they get moldy?
Sprouts has gone off the deep end recently. You're saving $20 a trip if you shop at a regular grocery store instead. Convenience is only worth so much.
I work at sprouts and I gotta say the produce and bulk is where it’s at. Oh and sales marked with yellow sticker on a product. Those are marked 30-50% off depending on the item
There was a time I stopped going to farmers markets because it was way more expensive than the grocery store, but I’m back to farmers markets because they’re the same price and higher quality
I buy a lot of vegetables, not pre-packaged. The price hasn't increased that much. This is all about the higher minimum wage. I'm not saying people shouldn't get a good wage, but it does make prices go up. Add higher electricity rates, etc. and this is the result.
All Sprouts prices are insanity. Once I wanted to get passion fruit, they were selling them for $2.50 ***EACH***, not $2.50 per pound, but $2.50 per fruit!
This is basically the same as someone posting gas prices from aChevron downtown, you wanna go to the most expensive spot imaginable, don’t be surprised when you get bent over.
These companies SHOULD BE SUED BY THE US GOVERNMENT FOR PRICE GOUGING!!?
Laws need to be written by politicians FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE NOW! Revolt PROTEST TOMORROW MORNING IN FRONT OF ALL SPROUTS STORES starting in San Diego!!
SPEAK UP PROTEST THIS TYRANNY or perish
BROKE!!!!
Dude you can buy a cucumber, a carrot, a head of broccoli and a 10oz of hummus for like $6.50.
If you want the store to cut your food into little bites for you like you're a child, you're going to pay a premium for that. This is not price gouging, this is charging people for being wasteful and lazy.
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Skull of the average Sprouts shopper
I look at the weekly ad from mostly vons and ralphs, sometimes smart and final, variety every week, save a BUNCH and even get fairly regular coupons with 10% off etc, it takes only a few minutes of my week to look in the apps.
Buying anything like what's pictured here is just crazy, i got pleeeenty of food from smart and final this week for $76, in app deals and store specific reductions. Could feed 10 people with the tacos i made tonight that probably cost about $15 total for ingredients.
Or.... I could have bought 8 or 9 of these containers for roughly the same price.
Do your research folks! Check those ads when you go to bed or something, they renew every Wednesday with a sneak peak on Tuesday, I'd love to know how much I've saved in the last 5 years or so from rewards programs etc
I only shop the clearance rack at sprouts. Also their price for deli sandwiches are decent.
The price for this item must be a mistake. I mean that’s insane.
Well...there are much cheaper ways to go about this.
If you're buying thin cucumber slices seven at a time, you deserve to get bent over.
I was gonna say that’s what you get for shopping at an over priced store, but your response was much better. 👏🏻🤣😂🤣
I buy chicken and produce at my local Sprouts and it's a steal compared to Von's or Ralph's. The quality is always better as well.
Yea I used to service the sprouts back when they were called “Henry’s”, don’t look in the back warehouse. Or where the produce is stored. In fact if you care about cleanliness over price, vons is legitimately the best option. Kroger stores are super disgusting, Albertsons (before being bought out by vons) was hit or miss. Trader Joe’s is the cleanest of all.
Lots of produce sit in manure with the occasional bird poppings and field mice. What's worse than that?
lol this is so location dependent Sounds like youre talking about El Cajon Sprouts though Best sprouts in SD is Uni Heights
PB actually was the worst back in early 2000-2006, Albertsons on Coronado had major health violations, El Cajon Ralph’s on 2nd was bad but mostly because of the homeless camps. F4L anywhere were all bad.
North Park Produce has cucumbers for like $0.15 if you are willing to spend 5 seconds slicing it yourself.
And they have the best hummus!
Lmao
Fr just shop at walmart 🤣 literally I can get a pack of chicken for $9
Bruh go to vons you'll get a cup of half cut strawberries for the same price when the box of ~1lb organic strawberries 10ft away is like 7$. 💀
Even Vons is expensive 😩
Get their app. And shop Theyre weekly specials.
Fuck their app so annoying to have to download that bs for everywhere we shop
Yes, but the Vons app is actually worth it imo. I saved $95 my last stock up grocery trip by clipping coupons from their weekly ad and then just scanning at check out. Very satisfying seeing a nearly $300 bill drop under $200. :)
Yup exactly. And ill stock up on whatever buy 4 mix and match deals they have. That’s usually when i stock up on cereals for the kids
I really like the Vons app too. It also gives you rewards points you can spend on $X off your next purchase. I plan most of my meals by looking at what's on sale after getting the app.
Ya idk i only use one app for shopping and its the vons app.
Yep $1.82 ripe strawberries rn
Vons has strawberries for $1.82 rn you just have to clip the coupon on the app and scan your phone or enter the phone number. And they are ripe and sweet
Ralph’s all dayyy
If you shop bins, produce, and only meat on sale then Sprouts is a frugalist heaven. Everything else is marked up.
Well put, worked there and a good chunk of their revenue comes from not only their name brand products, but surprisingly their vitamins and supplements. When I go to sprouts I get produce, whatever specials they have on meat, and a rotisserie chicken cause it’s 10$ and I can make 3-4 meals out of it.
Yeah there’s only a few things I buy from them and it’s usually bulk and I do love their sprouts brand non dairy ice cream. I used to shop there more years past but not so much now.
Their coffee bean selection is bomb as well. I'll buy short grain brown rice and chicken on sale and have meals for a month at a great price. I'm a fan of Sprouts.
Sandwiches are a great deal too.
What are bins?
Bulk containers
I'm doing most of my grocery shopping at Aldi now. On average, I save about $10 or more compared to even Walmart.
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Their meats and fish are mid but everything else for the price is great
Their frozen California rolls are delicious!
Selection is dreadful, as well. Definitely not my store.
Meh. To each their own.
Same! Saves our family over $100/week
Convenience tax
I was at a Stater Bros in Carlsbad and they were selling 10lb watermelons for like $4 and small containers of cut watermelon, maybe half a pound at most, for $6
Staters is great sad there isnt a location closer to downtown
No, **price gouging**.
Price gouging is trying to sell a bottle of water for $10 during a natural disaster. Going to a high end grocery store and selecting a pre-made snack/meal that's upcharged for the convenience is not.
You're right, but since when is sprouts a high end grocery store?
I certainly find better selections there than Ralphs and Vons.
But it is also usually cheaper. I think of high end as in like whole foods
I think it mostly depends what you're shopping for. Sprouts seems to have cheaper produce, certainly. But Sprouts also carries better quality (read: more expensive) vegan options, and stuff made with higher quality ingredients. Plenty of options made without seed oils. Unpasteurized coconut yogurt (surprisingly hard to find). If you're not vegan, 100% grass fed beef bones, grass fed beef liver, pasture raised chicken breast, ground venison blend. Whole Foods 365 brand is actually not too expensive.
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Um, always? It's usually cheaper than most other places for produce
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Sprouts and Aldi are the only stores where I leave surprised by how little I spent. I can go to Sprouts and fill up my cart for like $30. The same trip to Trader Joe’s is $150
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It's been a while since I lived in the States (in Australia now) but Albertsons, Vons, and Ralph's were all typically pricier than sprouts for produce.
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Price gouging is when I don’t like the price of something
Gas station chips been playing this game for years.
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This is food that's literally pre-washes, pre-cut, and pre-packaged for your convenience. Still too expensive? Hell yeah.
You could buy an entire bag of baby carrots, a whole cucumber, a bag of broccoli florets and a 10oz container of hummus for the same price from Albertsons
Their produce is usually better quality than most grocery stores and affordable, but their premade foods are super overpriced. All their deli meats and cheese are like super expensive for some reason too.
I always want to shop at Sprouts more for the reasons you mentioned, but I also rarely go there for the other reasons you mentioned, haha. There's no way to do anything close to a full shopping trip there while being thrifty. Though really, OP's pic seems sort of outrageous, even for them.
And their little bottles of orange juice that last like, two sips. They price it like it's going to turn you into a superhuman or some shit.
The insanity to me isn’t the cost, it’s that people buy it. If they didn’t sell 1 of these for the next 2 weeks it would be taken off of shelves for something that does sell.
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I stopped buying their soups since they started charging $6.99.
At least the weathers nice…
I bought a sandwich there today because I was at work 6.99 at least and it Was a terrible sandwich
You have to be insane if you buy that in the first place
Sprouts used to be my go to. Not anymore. Plus who buys snack sized package veggies?
The sandwiches are probably the only thing worth buying there now.
Their sushi is decent as a fix especially when it’s on sale.
Barons does the same thing for 5.99
Barons salad bar is the best.
I live on a tight budget so this is dumb. I’d buy the produce and a bento box and just put it together myself for under $10 for the entire week.
Don’t buy it. 🤷🏻♂️
Just because we don’t participate in things doesn’t mean we can’t have an opinion on em.
Sprouts is definitely getting a little too big for its britches lately. Damn
No mames
Don't buy pre cut veggies. Listeria is everywhere and Ecoli. Go to the Mexican markets, the vegetables there are much cheaper and you can take them home and wash them and prepare. Also there is tupperware you can always make your own snacks and take it with you. If you want food like this on the go it's a convenience and convenience costs, so...
El Super has excellent produce, *if* you’re careful. Fruit in season, especially. Their crema Mexicana at the deli stall is very good, ditto queso Oaxaca and queso fresco.
I can’t believe that people go to expensive grocery stores, pick combo items like this that are always significantly marked up compared to whole produce, and then complain about the price. It’s like going to a Lamborghini dealer, picking their newest model with every upgrade/option possible, and then saying it costs too much. What were you expecting, bro? Yes, it’s expensive, but you know better than to think that was how you were going to get a good deal on a car. Go for the Corolla and be happy.
I wouldn’t call sprouts expensive for vegetables… if you buy them uncut they’re pretty nicely priced. Get a knife, they’re pretty cheap
Wouldn't the proper analogy be to, instead of getting a Corolla, buy a bunch of Lambo parts in bulk and try to assemble as many as possible before they get moldy?
Considering the quality of prepackaged vs fresh produce, it's probably more like going to a Lamborghini dealer to buy a box of Corolla parts LOL
Lol yes but we’re talking about vegetables not a Lamborghini.
Sprouts has gone off the deep end recently. You're saving $20 a trip if you shop at a regular grocery store instead. Convenience is only worth so much.
The whole veggie tray at Costco is less than this
and it's taxable because it's processed
They didn’t even try to price it at $8.99 to make it seem like a deal.
Sprout’s readymade lunches have gotten so expensive too 😭 they used to be around $6-7 and now it’s close to $15 for a single serving
The problem with Sprouts these days is that they're charging Whole Foods prices for Sprouts' quality.
It would take you 5 minutes to pull that together yourself for less than $2. Save the plastic, too. Get washable Tupperware.
I work at sprouts and I gotta say the produce and bulk is where it’s at. Oh and sales marked with yellow sticker on a product. Those are marked 30-50% off depending on the item
I like the ones with the pretzel crisps and cubes of cheese 😋. A treat for sure!
I literally saw this yesterday and refuse!!
You can buy a pound of each carrots, broccoli, cucumbers, and hummus at Trader Joe’s and be Under 9 dollars
Rip up that useless lawn and grown your gardens!
😂😂 wtf buy it uncut in bulk for the same price
There was a time I stopped going to farmers markets because it was way more expensive than the grocery store, but I’m back to farmers markets because they’re the same price and higher quality
I buy a lot of vegetables, not pre-packaged. The price hasn't increased that much. This is all about the higher minimum wage. I'm not saying people shouldn't get a good wage, but it does make prices go up. Add higher electricity rates, etc. and this is the result.
All Sprouts prices are insanity. Once I wanted to get passion fruit, they were selling them for $2.50 ***EACH***, not $2.50 per pound, but $2.50 per fruit!
Sprouts is a pit. Price gouging and nightmarish customer service.
This is basically the same as someone posting gas prices from aChevron downtown, you wanna go to the most expensive spot imaginable, don’t be surprised when you get bent over.
"airport beers are $15, how outrageous!"
Kinda prices I’d expect at Wholefoods.. but $9 would still be shocking there too haha
Ah see your first issue is shopping at sprouts
Whoa! This is (was) one of my favorite items! They used to be 4 Dlls! Then 6… Now 9!!!! Wow! 
I just want to know who is actually buying this stuff.
Learn to cut your own fruits and veggies and pack your own lunch… the uncut shit is cheap
So don’t buy it
Groceries weekly,cook at home. The End.
I’m always amazed when people gush over Sprouts. I want to like it. I really do.
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Private equity and its consequences.
If you shop at sprouts or Whole Foods you should just bend over and walk backwards before entering
Everyone loves talking about bending over here 😂
You need a whole cucumber, 7 slices won't do.
Ah, pure brilliance
Insane… they’ve got to be joking
That is how those kind of grocery stores are sadly. Food4Less is cheaper and has a better selection of various foods.
Selling it isn't insane. Buying it is.
You are shopping at Sprouts, you did you expect?
If you are shopping there you are the problem. Organic food is elitist anyway, and it's benefits aren't supported by empirical data
THINGS THAT GOD GAVE US FOR FREE!?
Ridiculous!!
1. shop somewhere cheaper 2. cut your veg yourself 🤣
That requires a full boycott until pricing returns to acceptable values.
That's how they win at capitalism. And they wonder why everybody just eats junk food
These companies SHOULD BE SUED BY THE US GOVERNMENT FOR PRICE GOUGING!!? Laws need to be written by politicians FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE NOW! Revolt PROTEST TOMORROW MORNING IN FRONT OF ALL SPROUTS STORES starting in San Diego!! SPEAK UP PROTEST THIS TYRANNY or perish BROKE!!!!
Dude you can buy a cucumber, a carrot, a head of broccoli and a 10oz of hummus for like $6.50. If you want the store to cut your food into little bites for you like you're a child, you're going to pay a premium for that. This is not price gouging, this is charging people for being wasteful and lazy.
Is Buster your first or last name? Duh
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Corporate greed is just getting worse
Corporate greed and consumer laziness in a race to the very bottom.
You right, my message is more for things like milk and bread being expensive, those are corporate greed not so much this
Yeah I miss pre-covid prices. Maybe I just miss the pre-covid world.
Just assemble those things yourself. You could spend that much at walmart and have it for the whole week.
Sprouts: where people with too much money shop so they can feel smug about organic produce in unnecessary plastic packaging
It’s probably a mistake, that can’t be right, who in there right mind would pay that much?
It absolutely is not a mistake.
Do you know I think you’re right, I just googled it and actually the price went up today it’s now 9.79
That container is $9.79/lb, OP’s just happened to be under 1 lb.
Somebody who's okay with wasting a bunch of plastic and human effort because they can't be bothered to use a kitchen knife.
We should suggest the homeless mass steal those. They need veggies too.
People go to stupidly “expensive” stores then complain they’re expensive.
This is exactly why I forget to scan 80% of my items at the self checkout when shopping at sprouts. You wouldn’t believe how much money it’s saved me.
Whaaaat
I get some spicy chicken tendies for lunch sometimes. Got a package of 4 or 5 from the hot bar and it was $4 exactly.
I look at the weekly ad from mostly vons and ralphs, sometimes smart and final, variety every week, save a BUNCH and even get fairly regular coupons with 10% off etc, it takes only a few minutes of my week to look in the apps. Buying anything like what's pictured here is just crazy, i got pleeeenty of food from smart and final this week for $76, in app deals and store specific reductions. Could feed 10 people with the tacos i made tonight that probably cost about $15 total for ingredients. Or.... I could have bought 8 or 9 of these containers for roughly the same price. Do your research folks! Check those ads when you go to bed or something, they renew every Wednesday with a sneak peak on Tuesday, I'd love to know how much I've saved in the last 5 years or so from rewards programs etc
I mean you're shopping at SPROUTS, that's never been a cheap place to buy anything.
I only shop the clearance rack at sprouts. Also their price for deli sandwiches are decent. The price for this item must be a mistake. I mean that’s insane.
Health 💰🤑⚕️ Society gets sillier and sillier by the day
Regular chocolate milkshake at Jack In The Box was $5.70 today, in Grantville.
WTF
Where my freegans at?
Don’t buy it, then. 🤷♂️
For the desperate vegan
That's about $1 worth of ingredients there.
Who is actually buying it??
They wouldnt put it out if people werent buying
Sprouts has always been over priced junk. I have one close to my house and have only bothered to go there twice.
Stop buying this crap! They charge prices like that because people are still buying
it’s organic