Comment by Kosirich

The thing is, you can now find good all year grown tomatoes in shops, just not in Croatian shops unfortunately. (speaking as a Croatian living in Denmark) In Denmark, even Lidl now has premium tomatoes that have good taste and smell. They are "pricy", so they are on average x3 the default tasteless, unripe ones. Considering they are properly ripe, part of the price is certainly just to cover much greater waste due to them going bad or getting bruised.