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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.
They just haven't monetized it yet.
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.
I hope the brakes on the truck hold out...
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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.
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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."
So after book stores, Amazon now wants to push Banana stores out of business?
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So that is how you become the big banana in the business.
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It's bad only on Seattle. No competition is bad. 7 years ago you could get 15mbps for $35/mo in Phoenix. Now the cheapest internet is $45/mo and it's a special under the counter for 5mbps. At the same time 7 years ago in Europe I could get 25mbps for $100/year
Some one will either slip on a banana peal or get a banana addiction and sue Amazon
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It is NOT a waste of front page space, Fool! Amazon paid a nice chunk of change for the placement. Probably enough to keep all the slackjawed editors in Diet Dew and Mike&Ikes for a month. Learn to tell the difference between actual slashdot editorial and paid placement, your blood pressure will stay lower...
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?
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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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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?
Respect! Power! BANANA!
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You beat me to it. Why don't they just pay taxes so the poor and homeless can get their not just their own bananas but perhaps medical care, housing, food, jobs training, etc.
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I think paying taxes would be more effective.
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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 ).
pay your taxes, goverment funds/employees the poor, poor buys their own bananas
For the government take over this project there would be: banana tax forms, banana accountants, banana tax enforcement agents, the office of banana procurement (with a nice office building in DC), the office of banana distribution (with a nice office building in DC), a Congressional banana oversight committee complete with budget for banana inspection tours, the president's special banana adviser.... ok, these jokes almost write themselves. Anyway you get the idea. Or Amazon can do it themselves and pay a wee bit less dividends to shareholders.
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!"
liberal internet billionaires want to force their bananas down our throats.
Repeal BezosCatering now!
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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
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Banana nutrition
http://nutritiondata.self.com/...
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you need to get yourself a banana sling. //Don't worry, I'll let myself out.
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I think paying taxes would be more effective.
Because people benefit from B2 bombers more than from free bananas?
There is no such thing as a free banana.
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But do the bananas give out WiFi passwords when touched?
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Aww, come on? Whoever modded that down obviously didn't get either reference.
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Why not hand out something you don't have to ship so far like, oh, apples.
Not all of it would go to the military. It could be used for the list above or paying down the Federal debt just as well.
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