mini-moan: denied the opportunity

Recently I ranted about ripen at home fruit that does anything but. Instead you spend days monitoring that nectarine or banana only for it to rot into compost when you look away.
Today I turn my intention to fruit that is the polar opposite, an example of this would be the Waitrose 'Perfectly Ripe' range which is more 'Perfectly Rotten, Perfect For Compost', though sometimes with Waitrose even their regular range of fruit is rotten before you leave the shop.
On Saturday I purchased a punnet of cherries, and with them being Waitrose they were far from cheap. Yet the very first cherry I removed from the punnet was dripping and rotten, the next also rotten, the one after home to a whole colony of mould, eventually I found a cherry that wouldn't have caused me severe digestive trouble and it tasted, well it had no taste at all.
I returned the cherries to Waitrose and with my refund I purchased 4 Pears, rather expensive golden jobbies imported from New Zealand, although the fact they came from New Zealand should have been the first warning they would be terrible, much like anything imported from New Zealand.
The first pear while massively disappointing was indeed 'Perfectly Ripe', the second '50% Rotten', the third '75% Rotten' and the final '25% Rotten'. With a success rate that low I don't know how they can use the term 'Perfectly Ripe' unless they mean for making White Lightening.

At least with 'Ripen at Home' I get the opportunity to live in hope for several days that my fruit will be ready, the enjoyment of inspecting the fruit and proclaiming 'Tomorrow will be the day, I will feast on various fruits' before the disappointment that is a rotten puddle of decayed fruit where before there was optimism. No, with 'Perfectly Ripe' you bypass the fun and head straight to disappointment town, much like the A34 when heading towards Didcot.