Most vegetable/fruit prices seems cheaper on the west coast. I assume because most are produced and in California and don't have the added transportation costs?
The price a farmer gets is peanuts per unit.
Less applicable to an iPhone, but very applicable to produce or even toilet paper.
Which is probably where that informal use of 'peanuts' comes from.
It does not apply to specialist medicine, and only to a very limited extent to Apple products. So Apple can "enshittify": extract the maximum the market is willing to bear. They can steer demand. Aldi cannot.