Our grocery store, like most I’ve seen, have small thin plastic bags in the produce section for fruits and vegetables. Therefore, our fruits and veges tend to come home in those bags.
Our fridge has two “compartments”, one for vegetables and one for fruit (fruit bin is high humidity, vegetables low?).
So, should the fruits and/or vegetables be stored in those compartments with or without the plastic bags from the grocery? Does it make a difference in how long they will stay fresh, and before mold appears? Things like grapes come in their own plastic bags with holes - leave them as is?
if the item can loose water then you want to keep it dry, a bag with holes can help. i think removing from solid bags or using holey bags would be the best for longer term.
Things like lettuce, greens and herbs I wrap in paper towels, and then put in the crisper. They keep from going to slime much longer that way.
Soft fruit (like papaya, plums, peaches, melons etc.) can stay out until it’s ripe, or cut. Then you want to refrigerate it so it doesn’t rot. (The exceptions are cherries and maybe grapes. Cherries don’t seem to keep well at room temperature.) For instance, they are selling these huge papayas now that we like in our salad, and they last several nights. Once cut, I wrap them loosely in a plastic bag in the fridge.
Generally, I don’t believe in keeping any whole vegetables in their plastic bags in the fridge. Green beans do fine in a paper bag in the crisper. So do summer squash. Root vegetables like beets and carrots I just keep loose, or in paper bags in the fridge.