Abstract:The industry's responsibility 41 Literature cited 42 CIRCULAR 659, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Growers are inclined to place the blame for the lack of quality in the apples offered in grocery stores and other outlets on the retailers and other intermediaries in the merchandising chain. They feel that the handlers of the fruit are not " apple-minded"; that to them apples are just so much perishable merchandise to be handled and priced according to the risk attached; that, in the absence of knowledge on how … Show more
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