Rotten retailing

At the risk of being repetitive, I feel the need to complain again about the use of misleading marketing by our retailers. The golden rule should be: never buy fruit or vegetables that are in packaging, and particularly if they have been peeled and chopped already. The produce starts to decompose shortly after exposing the inside, particularly squash and marrows and slime soon sets in. The bunch of carrots I bought had started to rot from the crown where the greens had been cut off to fit them into the packet. The packet had a mottled orange pattern to hide the mottled brown pattern on the carrots, which looked about three weeks old and would have been an insult to feed to any self-respecting porcupine.
When 'specials' are advertised - any three bags for R100, say - you are still paying an awful lot for 3 kilos of potatoes or onions or butternut, and the reason for the special is that they are on the brink of rotting. Is there any worse smell than a rotten potato, hidden at the bottom of the bag? Onions are frequently soft in the middle, leaving only the outer leaves edible.
But the thing that gets my goat is that the person packing the goods is aware of the 'defects' and places them out of sight by cunning placement of a label to hide the bee sting in the butternut, and arrangement of meat to hide the fat and gristle, as per these photos. There is no doubt that nobody would have bought it with the fat side up!

It's the deliberate deviousness that annoys. No wonder we all drool at the markets of Europe - if only we could embrace that lifestyle rather than being ruled by the retailers!