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I worked at Amazon when Fresh was rolling out in Seattle. A coworker thought he was ordering 10 bananas but when his order arrived he received 10 bunches of ban
by jonhohle 2y ago
I worked at Amazon when Fresh was rolling out in Seattle. A coworker thought he was ordering 10 bananas but when his order arrived he received 10 bunches of bananas.
Generously, he brought them in to share along with the story. I’m sure they made a lot of banana bread the following week.
- wombatpm 2y agoAll stores have problems with produce. Is that 2.99 a pound for peaches, bag or each?
- gessha 2y agoThey typically list out the unit but what ticks me off is when adjacent items have different units. One is in ounces, the second is per unit, their third one is per bag.
- senderista 2y agoWas that the origin of the banana stand?
- camkego 2y agoFor a little context, Amazon has one or more “community banana stands” For more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Banana_Stand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Banana_Stand
- jonhohle 2y agoI don’t think it was related. This incident would predate those by 4-5 years.
- ssl-3 2y agoSame, but different. I once ordered qty. 6 bananas from Instacart, expecting one fairly-medium bunch of bananas to show up with about 6 fruits in that bunch. The listing clearly showed that it was for "quantity", not "weight." But I got 6 pounds of bananas, which is a ton for a single person living by themself. [And I don't bake, so I got plenty of fresh potassium that week.] It only happened once. After that, I started leaving careful notes that describe each item where quantity/volume/weight might be confusing and things have been fine. (I could have complained and Instacart would have rubber-stamped a refund for that part of the order without discussion, but it wasn't worth that much effort.)
- bombcar 2y agoIt’s not only Instacart. The first target that I ever went to that had a grocery store had turkeys that had been labeled at $.25. Not $.25 a pound. I pointed it out to the cashier multiple times and she couldn’t understand what I was complaining about so eventually, I went home with my $.25 turkey.
- LorenPechtel 2y agoI've seen fixed-price turkey before. But not 25 cents. On the flip side, many local places have gone to pricing bananas by the each.
- bombcar 2y agoEach has significant advantages - it means you do NOT need a state-certified scale for transactions; you just count. It was obvious that that Target had never priced anything per pound before (it had just been remodeled to have a supermarket) and an employee fat-fingered the label. But the cashier had no recourse and I wasn't going to fight it hard. (The same Target also had some clearance steaks for like ten cents a pound because they were close to expiration because none of the customers were expecting a supermarket in their target and weren’t buying perishables.)
- 1oooqooq 2y agofunny, bananas were the only thing they greatly lowered price (and quality) when they took over wholefoods. before you had .8/lb and 1.2/lb true organic from south America. after you had both bins failed with the the same Asian chiquita, but the fresher ones labeled organic and they cost .8 and .6 per lb.
- hinkley 2y agoAt least he didn’t order a truckload like Shiv Ramdas’ brother in law: https://cheezburger.com/12444421/twitter-thread-frustrated-husband-buys-entire-truck-of-rice-insanity-ensues https://cheezburger.com/12444421/twitter-thread-frustrated-h...
- slumberlust 2y agoIronically, doesn't AMZ Seattle supply bananas freely to all staff already?