No, of course it is not from cold storage; instead the produce is flying around the world so that you can have them whenever you want.

Cold storage, jets, and long-haul trucking are particularly bad for some types of produce, not so bad for others.

Anyway, I’m not fighting the modern world, I like having tomatoes in January. But this article and discussion is about how you can have good apples, or you can have year-round apples at scale, but you can’t have both. And a lot of that comes down to the supermarket training consumers to expect the same produce every week.