This probably makes sense in Japan more than anywhere else. There's an active market for small numbers of near perfect fruit attractively packaged and sold for

This probably makes sense in Japan more than anywhere else. There's an active market for small numbers of near perfect fruit attractively packaged and sold for use as gifts. $5 is still on the high-side. But a pack of perhaps 8 fruit for 30USD is pretty normal. You'd actually find that in a lot of supermarkets in Tokyo and beyond, not just very high end places.