When I was at woolies today I had a look at the packing dates on the sides of all the boxes.
Most of the fruit that I looked at was packed quite recently.
I wrote the dates down on my phone (and got some wierd looks lol)
Cucumber, tomatoe - 30/07
Lettuce, onions, 27/07
Pears 01/08
Apples 28/07
Rockmelon 31/07
I'm ok with those dates because although they aren't Ideal I have kept my own home grown veges for just as long. Sometimes you get a glut so you end up storing quite a bit. Homegrown pears need to be picked before ripening and ripened off the tree or they just rot (maybe not all breeds but the ones my Dad grew did)

There was a box of grapes packed January. TBH I wouldn't have bought them anyway because they looked kind of skanky - the stems weren't nice and fresh looking, they were wizened yet soggy.
I didn't look at the dates on any of the imported fruits because I don't buy them anyway (I'm not quite a locavore but I try to buy local produce) but I guess they would have been older. I tend to stick mainly to what is seasonal. It seems so wrong eating a mango in winter. MIL bought some mexican ones last winter and they were awful.

ETA - I busted my local woolies breaking company policy too. The policy is to display fruit in the boxes it is packed in but the spinich I bought was in a crate that had manderins packed in it about a week ago - tsk tsk tsk.