Big Apple Fruit Co

I was reading on the internet the other day that if you eat 30 bananas a day you will live to be 110. Now first off, I’m not sure I want to live till I’m that age, but most importantly I wouldn’t be able to physically eat this much. I could imagine being constantly on the toilet.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, it aids digestion and has lots of vitamin goodness. Vegetables contain all those nutrients we all demand, yet we still eat processed food with no nutritional value.
This is a welcoming greengrocer on a very quaint high street in a very nice part of Birmingham. They sell all of the above will a freshness and quality that you won’t find in the supermarkets.

The place has been a fixture of Harborne High Street life for many years. I used to buy veg here 15 years ago and still do on my regular Charity shop hunts along the main drag.
The store is open plan from the moment you step off the high street — no doors or windows, just step right off the street — which gives it a market feel, as does the way in which the fruits and veg is arranged in high and long rows that stretch all the way around the store.
If you’re stocking up on fruit and or veg for the week then this will be a much better and considerably cheaper alternative to the local supermarket. Considering that the local supermarket in this area is a Waitrose, the financial aspect is even more appealing. The quality of the goods is fairly decent, if a little conservative in terms of range, but all-​in-​all this is a pretty good high street greengrocers.

With just under 10 branches in the South of Birmingham The Big Apple is probably the shop in Harborne that most resembles a traditional greengrocer — although of course the larger supermarkets probably stock a slightly larger range. However, The Big Apple is a cheap and cheerful place which stocks seasonal produce, has a good selection of cut flowers, bedding plants and is also a good place to get discount priced biscuits, crisps, nuts, chocolate and pop. The staff wear their tabards well and are friendly and particularly nice to some of the older people who shop there (counting change and filling up shopping trolleys) and the quality of the fruit in particular is pretty good.