There is almost no occasion, event or holiday gift that can?t be properly addressed by sending some kind of fruit basket. From humble beginnings as a device fruit growers used to expand their business beyond supermarkets, fruit baskets have become one of the most popular categories of gifts in the country. No longer is this merely a device for fruit growers to send out more of their freshly grown produce at retail prices.

Nowadays, many of the items advertised, sold and shipped as fruit baskets contain hardly any fruit at all. Fruit baskets have matured -- come of age, as they say -- and it?s possible to satisfy a gift giving need by ordering a fruit basket from any of literally thousands of suppliers across the country. You?ll find that many of the local retail stores in town have some form of fruit basket deal to ship their wares, if not all year round, then certainly at appropriate holiday times. For at least two major gift-giving holidays, Mother?s Day and Valentine?s Day, fruit baskets surpassed flowers as the gift of choice on a national basis several years ago and have kept on growing ever since.