No, they're not.
I haven't bought an apple at a grocery store in decades.
Most of them are gassed garbage on their own little trays.
Of course, I was a wholesale produce manager in a past life, and got to order from the actual orchards themselves during the fall harvest.
In college and several years after, my wife and I spent almost every vacation kind of time with my New Mexico family. I was there so much that it did cause a problem premarriage that one time when we were walking down a street in Santa Fe when a very comely Spanish girl walked up to me and said hello to me by name, etc. I had to do some serious making up to the future wife! Lol.
Anyway, apples. I was at my cousin’s, wife's parents house in Santa Fe in the fall after fiestas and Sr. Benevides, the grand father, steered me to the garage Boom! Apple scent knocked me over! He had his crop of apples stored in the cool garage. He insisted on gifting me a crate of apples and I have never had any better before or since.
What led to this though was a number of years going to the family gatherings at the 4th of July or fiesta that were at at the family farm in Chimayo, New Mexico. An apple orchard, a stream, swimming pond and amazing NM food. I miss that.