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Amazon Now Gives Away 5,000 Bananas a Day (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader writes: When thinking up ways to give back to its home city, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos decided to give out free bananas. That was in December 2015, when Amazon first launched the Community Banana Stand, handing out bananas to whoever wants a snack. Over a year later, Amazon has handed out over a million bananas to the Lake Union and Denny Regrade communities in Seattle, averaging almost 5,000 a day, the company said recently. By comparison, Seattle was home to just 662,400 people in 2015, according to the city's Office of Planning and Community Development. Employees and non-employees are welcome to grab one, or even more, of the fruit.
That's nuts.
Just bragging ?
They just haven't monetized it yet.
I'm actually surprised that encouraging people to grab fruits isn't even more popular than that!
"When thinking up ways to give back to its home city"
They thought of the cheapest way to give back.
Seriously, WTF is up with bananas being pushed on everyone lately? Many of the convenience stores around my town for the last couple of years have had mounds of bananas near the cash register, many of which aren't even ripe.
Was there some massive genetic engineering project on Bananas that went awry and led to an unprecedented crop that just HAD to be unloaded? Or, seriously, what?
Bananas are phallic and disgusting.
Seriously, why the fuck did this submission end up on the front page of Slashdot?! Just because it involves Amazon?!
This submission is pointless, it's irrelevant, and it's a waste of front page space.
There are numerous other relevant and much better stories in the Firehose. One of them should have been chosen!
Now we'll have to wait another 30 minutes or so before another more relevant story ends up on the front page.
The whole point of the front page is to highlight the best submissions from the Firehose. This submission is clearly one of the worst, and should not be on the front page.
Quit mucking up the front page with idiotic submissions like this one. Put useful submissions on the front page!
And never knew about this until now.
I hope the brakes on the truck hold out...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
That is great that they are giving out snacks, but people need a place to relax. I suggest the immediate installation of banana hammocks at all stands.
Maybe Jeff Bezos doesn't realize that his code monkeys aren't actual monkeys.
M_S
IIRC, amazon forest is being razed to grow bananas. since the banana's dont' replenish the soil it goes barren and new forest land must be razed. The common cavendish Banana is also a clone. all of them are genetically identical. similar to the coming age of employees.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I thought the saying was "If you pay peanuts you get monkeys".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
1. Crash the market
2. Buy up all banana stock
3. Raise prices
4. Profit
(Note that there is no ... step. That's how the rich do it.)
So after book stores, Amazon now wants to push Banana stores out of business?
bickerdyke
Maybe AMZN should spend that money on Seattle's chronically borked internet. I have to chose between shotgunned 128K ISDN or my medication every month.
So that is how you become the big banana in the business.
Hey! No fair! I just bought some bananas from Amazon.
I demand a refund!
Some one will either slip on a banana peal or get a banana addiction and sue Amazon
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Try over there
pay your taxes, goverment funds/employees the poor, poor buys their own bananas
This would be a great way to demo drone delivery!
Free banananas on demand for all!
Do I have to sign up for Prime to be eligible?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
as free food?
What they don't tell you... is that every one of those bananas has been up Bezos' ass.
Was that before or after the pennies? And the watch?
Nope, no sig
They're obviously trying to boost sales of the Hutzler 571 Banana slicer. https://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-571-Banana-Slicer/product-reviews/B0047E0EII
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Ah... he is following the ass pennies strategy for success.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
That's bananas...ba-na-na-s.
"By comparison, Seattle was home to just 662,400 people in 2015, according to the city's Office of Planning and Community Development."
um... total non sequitur. What does the population have to do with bananas? They say how many bananas were handed out, not anything about population numbers.
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What this tells me is that, somewhere in Seattle, there's a dude that owns a banana stand that, at some point in the past, screwed Jeff Bezos' crush.
Pound! Bang! Bin! Bash! is this a shell script or a Batman comic?
It's nice and all, but those neighborhoods are primarily full of his employees roaming around. The area is monopolized by Amazon buildings, and any residential buildings generally consist of ultra-expensive condos and apartments. Very few non-rich people live in that area, so certainly don't get caught up thinking he's "feeding the needy."
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos decided to give out free bananas.
Ever since he bought the Washington Post it's been serving up nothing but baloney.
Respect! Power! BANANA!
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Is this a racial stereotyping ploy to increase "diversity" ?
Bananas are rich in K-40 isotopes an alpha emitter
1 banana = 0.1 microSievert
5000 bananas = 0.5 mSv
Limit for non-background contributions per year 1mSv (0.3 mSv in the UK, but they are special ).
So when an robot replaces your job that is all you get?
What's that in becquerels
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A local grocery store started putting out some specially marked bins of free fruit for kids to snack on while their parents are shopping. They had bananas and oranges. They were not large, but they were good quality, it's not like the store was giving away fruit that no one would buy. I have no idea how much they've given away.
"Hey! Please no squeeza da banana!"
There's money IN the banana stand!!!
liberal internet billionaires want to force their bananas down our throats.
Repeal BezosCatering now!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
this is interesting, having grown up around banana plants etc. So you know all bananas are clones as it's next to impossible to grow a banana from a seed those are the little dots along the core of a mature banana. Banana's are one of the most nutritious fruits and they are cheap. I'm sure this may not be a lofty a solution as you would like to see but the bottom line is it is a efficient way to feed people. Since you are in a complaining mood one thing to complain about is single sourced bananas, despite being a easy to grow tropical fruit the US does single source much of it's fruit resulting in the need of a mega plantation as opposed to several small sustainable locally owner options.
Banana propagation
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/ch...
Banana nutrition
http://nutritiondata.self.com/...
"averaging almost 5,000 a day"
"By comparison, Seattle was home to just 662,400 people in 2015"
Uh... okay? So what?! Is 5k bananas suddenly anywhere near over half a million people? What?
It is a well known fact that 1000 bananas - or 1 Banana Equivalent Doze (B.E.D.) - increase your chance to die by 1 micromort.
Thus Amazon is handing out 5 micromorts a day.
amazon are secretly stockpiling uranium, the bananas are an excuse for the increased radioactivity in the area.
also - bananas are not, technically, fruit - they're a type of small ethiopian traffic warden.
Ooook!
you need to get yourself a banana sling. //Don't worry, I'll let myself out.
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People need to realize that the Amazon Minions have to eat too.
instead of offering bananas, he should offer a bit more money to his employee so they ca, if they want, buy a banana or two if they want. And if they need something else, they get the choice (freedom) to do something else with the money.
There is no such thing as a free banana.
http://www.acetonestudio.com
But do the bananas give out WiFi passwords when touched?
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Beware of the Redittor who loans you a Sharpie.
Aww, come on? Whoever modded that down obviously didn't get either reference.
Nope, no sig
Why not hand out something you don't have to ship so far like, oh, apples.
Can I sell $1 deluxe bananas next to their stand?
This is just to experiment with logistical challenges of delivering food which is different from books etc. because food rots.