men around a conference table: We need to do something to set ourselves apart from the Chiquita people. It's about time that they remember who put tropical fruit on the American countertop in the first goddamn place customers:
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Also i didn't even realize it was del monte until you pointed it out. I just assumed it was chiquita
aug 30, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
i can understand why /s
aug 30, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
It was slightly terrifying watching it move the first time. What was wrong with bananas hanging off racks that didn't move? 💀
aug 30, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Taking fruit flies for a walk? 😆
aug 30, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
chimpanzee decoy
aug 30, 2025, 5:48 pm • 1 0 • view
this baffles me more than the random posts with bananas hanging on them in sections far away from the produce. how will the people who want bananas find this when its so busy annoying the people who dont?
aug 30, 2025, 4:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Its an attempt to force integrate technology in a place where it has no value added. Corporations cannot drive innovation, for they do not see people. Innovation solves a problem, it doesn't just increase profit.
aug 30, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
gotta love the persistence of "solutions" looking for problems to "fix"
aug 30, 2025, 7:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Well the problem they want to fix was pretty simple: paying anyone. Not sure i want to know what they will try after all this AI crap fails.
aug 30, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
How far will the Del Monte goons go to make sure the bananas come home with you? Next time it's a crane game at the checkout that just puts them directly in your bags
aug 30, 2025, 5:25 pm • 2 0 • view
waiting for the banana bot to be hiding out back by the grocery loading docks, a trench coat poorly draped over it as it beeps ominously at passers-by with a gravelly tone that seems to ask "hey you, yeah, you wanna hit o' nana? i got some here for ya, real ripe, real cheap"
aug 30, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Me, a houseplant nerd: psssst…These ones are even variegated, the peel AND the fruit. Real sweet. It will cost you though! …Musa Nono? Oh musa, yeah yeah! (I’m sorry I’m very tired.)
aug 30, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
but it made me chuckle so i call that a win. and evoked thoughts of jar jar binks, but i'm not sure how i would qualify that.
aug 30, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view