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I have been long out of the apple business but can recall walking into the company warehouse store up there in Washington and buying apples direct for 15 cents a pound at a time when walmart was selling for roughly 50 cents a pound. It would take the two of us a week to go through that bag of apples with the in-cab cooler it was kept in. These warehouses carefully dole out apples all the year long.Truly a wonderous bounty of apples provided by the good rain and the Columbia river.Regarding wiltage, Apples are strong. It's the airride that keeps them from getting beat and bruised. It's the greens you gotta watch out for; or the dough. That stuff once it starts to lose it's temperature and get hot, it's all worthless. Some shippers make the mistake and break a commandment "Thou shalt pre-cool the trailer before loading" thinking that today's reefer units are capable of chilling 90 degree field picked produce down to 33 degrees. That wont happen.What happened if you did try it? WAL.. it will take you a week of high side humming.. nay.. growling from the reefer unit 24/7 burning oceans of fuel and you will reduce the temp on the load to 60 degrees. It's basically the war against stored heat within the mass of the load. You need "Blast Chillers" for those. Sometimes truck reefers caught fire trying to chill a load because a shipper was too cheap to own or operate blast chillers.Sometimes they put the load on, get it moving and then sell the stuff as it moves. We might not know precisely where it will be delivered to for a time but if the broker works fast enough they can make the sale happen and it will be delivered.One more tidbit that I dont think is brought up yet... damaged goods. Those get taken out of the retail process and resold to whole sale. Within hours they are processed to buyers who are not as concerned with the quality of the goods. HOWEVER.... damage could be something as simple as a dent in the packaging with nothing wrong with the foodstuffs at all.
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