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1 On average, the price of tomatoes will usually be around $1 to $2 per pound at your local grocery store. 2  State Farmers Market in Raleigh, North Carolina, offers the following tomato varieties and their prices.
Most of the USDAâs per pound prices of vegetables look obscene to me. Maybe these are the prices you pay at a high-end grocery store if you try to avoid sales, but I rarely pay more than 70 cents to $1.00 per pound for any vegetable, unless I am being extravagant and buying cherry tomatoes or bagged salad greens. For example, fresh broccoli florets and fresh ears of sweet corn both sold for around $1.80 per pound at retail stores. 2  After boiling and removing inedible parts, however, the sweet corn cost almost twice as much as the broccoli florets ($1.17 vs. 63 cents per edible cup equivalent).