Success! A combination of strawberries in paper bags without basket (I tend to bruise the strawberries against the plastic strips) and buying the strawberries last translates to only one bruised strawberry out of 3 baskets, versus more than a dozen previously.
Thank you all!
This leads me to another question- how do stored-bought strawberries/ other berriess keep so long? My farmer’s market ones barely last 2 days. Does it have anything to do with ripeness?