Buy local if you possibly can. Strawberries can be grown widely enough that there's a local strawberry season, if only a brief one, in much of North America. (Here in British Columbia, it's usually from about now through July. This year, it's late, because this spring has been cold. In an exceptionally good year like last year, it runs through August.) In my experience, locally grown strawberries tend to be immensely better than the sorry specimens picked way too early and shipped in from California.
As terrible as those are, for being "the worst fruit in the everyday supermarket inventory", they get serious competition from tomatoes. Fortunately, tomatoes too are grown locally in much of North America.
Buy local if you possibly can. Strawberries can be grown widely enough that there's a local strawberry season, if only a brief one, in much of North America. (Here in British Columbia, it's usually from about now through July. This year, it's late, because this spring has been cold. In an exceptionally good year like last year, it runs through August.) In my experience, locally grown strawberries tend to be immensely better than the sorry specimens picked way too early and shipped in from California.
As terrible as those are, for being "the worst fruit in the everyday supermarket inventory", they get serious competition from tomatoes. Fortunately, tomatoes too are grown locally in much of North America.