Why are red grapes cheaper?

[Milan's Warrior]

This is a serious question.
Both last year and this year I can buy red seedless grapes for 99 cents a pound, but I can buy white and black grapes for $1.99 a pound.
That is a huge difference and I don't understand it.
I particularly like white and black grapes, while I don't really like the look of the red ones at all.

I wonder why there is such a price difference. I could of course just be that everybody likes white and black more so they cost more (i.e. from supply and demand, this explanation would point towards demand), but I notice that red grapes are not just much cheaper they are also much more available (there is much more of it), that leads me to think that they might be easier to grow (a supply side explanation), but why??

 

[stratego]

Probably the yield rate of red grapes is higher.
Another thing that is expensive is orange peppers. A pound of green peppers cost $0.99 while a pound of orange peppers cost $4.99

 

[Milan's Warrior]

Another thing that is expensive is orange peppers. A pound of green peppers cost $0.99 while a pound of orange peppers cost $4.99

That is true but I put down the fact that orange peppers are a "novelty product" so they are more expensive. Traditional products typically cost less.
But in this case, red grapes are the "novelty product" (not because they did not exist, they did, but because they were not so largely available), so they should cost more rather than less

 

[Drewcifer]

Probably the yield rate of red grapes is higher.
Another thing that is expensive is orange peppers. A pound of green peppers cost $0.99 while a pound of orange peppers cost $4.99

Ironically red and yellow peppers are sometimes cheaper than green ones wholesale but the grocery stores still charge more because the consumer expects them to be more expensive.

Since you can plant any major table grape variety in accordence to demand the price difference almost certainly is based on yield.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

See you must understand that grapes are divided into two types, white and black.

Red grapes fall under the black variety.

There are lots of different types of grapes. Some possibly grow well in certain areas and therefore produce bigger yields and are cheaper.

 

[Milan's Warrior]

Red grapes fall under the black variety.

Thanks for the info, but I like my black grapes black (or very dark blue-purple), not red

 

[sabo]

I think red grapes are cheaper because of the laws of "supply and demand" more people like green grapes.

 

[joacqin]

Where I am from green grapes are always cheaper.

 

[Narz]

Don't know about red grapes but the reason green peppers are cheaper than red or organge is because green peppers are in fact unripe colored peppers.

By plucking the peppers off the plant before they get a chance to ripen the plant feels it has "failed" (biologically speaking) and immediately produces a new pepper to replace the old one which didn't have a chance to delevlop. Therefore a farmer can yield three or four times the amount of green peppers to other colors, hence the price difference.

I had heard this before and was skeptical but when I worked on a farm for a time I learned it was truly the case.

- Narz

 

[Siegmund]

Hmmm.

At my local supermarket, both the green and red grapes are the same price. So, can't help you there.