Why Are Supermarkets in Berlin so Bad?

There is much to love about Berlin so don't get me wrong. But there is something about the supermarkets that just does not do it for me. Their fresh fruit and vegetables are often rotten!

The organic vegetables look great from far

Let me give you a few examples. I would say that at least 3/4 of the time when I have bought a little pack of organic apples from the Kaisers store downstairs from my office, one of the apples was bad. Now you might just say, buy loose apples. I do that now, but they aren't organic.
The same is also true of bags of salad. A few times I have bought a bag of rocket salad, checked the date on it and when I opened it for lunch found that it smelled bad.
Now the mainstream supermarkets are quite cheap but I would at least expect that the food would still be good.

Even if you go to a great organic store, you have to check carefully for everything that you buy. And there is no excuse that it is cheap because one pays quite a bit for nice organic food. Check out the photos below and you will see what I mean. A selection of vegetables looks beautiful and fresh from a distance, but the moment you look a bit more closely you see that not all of it is fresh. It just seems to me that no-one bothers checking the shelves to remove the rotten produce.

Still Beautiful

Look closely and they aren't as nice

What do you think about why Berlin grocery stores are so bad?