It doesn't seem right that taste can be the least important attribute of a fruit's market success. Even if appearance tricks consumers into buying a product on

It doesn't seem right that taste can be the least important attribute of a fruit's market success. Even if appearance tricks consumers into buying a product once, wouldn't bad taste and texture discourage them from making repeat purchases? And for a staple like apples, aren't repeat purchases the vast majority of sales? And yet, still, Red Delicious rules. I've long been baffled to see them in all the beautiful deli displays in NYC, the Big Apple, because their gushy, pasty bland internals render them unenjoyable. How can this be so? Is there some kind of supply chain monopoly/scam operating for apples in NYC, like the United Fruit joke with bananas?