It depends where you live. I'm in the Bay Area and strawberries are definitely not disappointing. In fact for several months of the year they are like food out of the Garden of Eden. You can recognize when they are in season by the uniform deep, crimson color of all the berries in the batch. And the price: cheap strawberries means there are a lot of them.

We usually get Tomatero Farms strawberries. Driscolls is OK but better for raspberries in my opinion. In season they all come from farms in locations like Monterey County, which is not far away. You have to eat them quickly, though, or they go bad.