Too busy to chop?

Whilst attending a Christmas meal yesterday I heard someone say that they buy pre-cut, packed vegetables for Christmas dinner because, and I quote, 'you don't even need to chop them anymore'. Have we really got to the point where we are genuinely too busy to cut our own vegetables up? And do the people who buy these pre-packed vegetables, which I think taste like crap by the way, not question how the manufacturers manage to keep 'fresh' vegetables in a bag for so long whilst they're flown halfway across the planet?