Purchasing carrots

The form you buy your carrots in is partially a function of where you live and where you shop. If I go to one of my local super-sized, conventional markets, I can find both organic and conventional carrots loose and in many packaging schemes from half-kilo (one-pound) to five-kilo (ten-pound) bags labelled ‘for juicing’. The smaller-quantity bags even allow the buyer to observe a little of the product inside, but it’s obviously only meant as a teaser. The last time I looked, I counted twelve different combinations of carrot types and quantities on the shelves, without considering the variations of the baby-cut carrots. There were a few organic carrots available loose, but these did not occupy anywhere near the shelf space of the packaged carrots. There were also true baby carrots available in orange, white, and purple sold with their greens attached, but only in very small quantities. These carrots were an exception since most of those available were orange and without their greens. My unverified perception is that the average shopper at the store perceives bagged carrots as being more desirable.