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Amazon Now Gives Away 5,000 Bananas a Day (fortune.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the be-right-back dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Overrated comment incoming by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's nuts.

    Surely being pedantic it's bananas

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  2. Amelia Bedelia Syndrome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Jeff Bezos doesn't realize that his code monkeys aren't actual monkeys.

    M_S

  3. Re:Overrated comment incoming by schnell · · Score: 5, Funny

    It has a solid business case. "There's always money in the banana stand."

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  4. I'm convinced of this. by lazlo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:LOL by plopez · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think paying taxes would be more effective.

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