There are 2 varieties of kiwi fruit, supermarkets sell both. Gold and green kiwi fruit. The gold variety is hairless and sweeter. Personally I prefer the green one although the gold ones have more vitamin c. Avalon I think you must have picked up the gold variety.
You can get the yellow ones,we get them here. I think they are a different variety. They are supposed to be sweeter,though. More like a tropical fruit.
I bought 4 in a little pack last week and they seemed fine. Ripe but not overly. I bought them in Tesco. I hope you are luckier if you decide to try again.
I haven’t bought kiwi fruit for years but was tempted by on of those 4 packs. They are a strange light yellow colour inside and very bland tasting. Was I unlucky or are they now all like that? I used to love the bright green colour in a fruit salad and their tangy taste.