Totally Bananas

andrew1707 | 12:24 Wed 01st May 2013 | ChatterBank

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A friend of mine went to Sainsbury's today for some bananas. All the loose bananas were very green, no yellow ones at all.

Working on the principle that a banana is a banana he open up one of the packs of yellow Eric and Friends small bananas and stuck the contents in one of the plastic bags meant for loose bananas , paid and went back to work.

At work he checked what the price difference was online, as there had been no price tag for the Eric an friends small bananas in the store, was the difference....5p , 10p or even 20p.......

Online, Eric & F small bananas are showing as £1.38 for 8.
When weighed as loose bananas .....50p

So the robbing ba****ds are charging 88p to put a bunch of bananas in a plastic bag.

My friend was quite irate about this.

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wolf63

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The world is going nuts ... or should that be 'nanas? Sainsburys is the supermarkets name. Should the apostrophe not be after the S? Why is it so complicated?

12:48 Wed 01st May 2013

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gingejbee

Not quite as simple as you suggest- for a start they were different bananas, different size and different ripeness.
And pre-packed anything is always much dearer.

B00

Why did your friend think it was perfectly acceptable to rip open pre-packaged food prior to buying them,oir not in his case?

AlwaysConfused

Serves him right. I look at price per KG before purchase to make sure I get the best deal.

friedgreentomato

The small Eric and friends bananas are dearer as they are picked to be specifally small.

So no one is robbing anyone apart from perhaps your fried who should not have opened those bananas and bought them.

Flyhalf

Serves the cheapskate right!

daffy654

Now the shop has an almost full bag of bananas they can't sell. So nice of your friend to help them out in this way :-/

wolf63

The world is going nuts ... or should that be 'nanas?

Sainsburys is the supermarkets name. Should the apostrophe not be after the S? Why is it so complicated?

andrew1707

Question Author

Sheesh.....has the Daily Mail web-site gone down and people have no-where else to go?

wolf63

I sent you an email with some strange information.

Where go the apostrophe?

Ric.ror

I once did that with Sweet potatoes - they did not have any loose ones and wanted me to buy a bag - no chance - as I said to the woman when I went to the box underneath for the fresher ones - they are not giving them away are they

Ric.ror

No daffy - the shop has a half a bag of bananas they can put with the individual ones and sell there

andrew1707

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Susan,
The company is called J Sainsbury plc. This would mean calling it Sainsbury's is valid and this is how they refer to themself in their web-site.

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andrew1707

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And to clear up the confusion: the entire contents of the bag of Small bananas was placed in a new bag and bought. There were no spare bananas left afterwards to confuse shoppers or staff members.

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Ric.ror

just call is Sains - I do ;-))

sunny-dave

So ... would it be acceptable to take the label off a small manky pineapple and attach it instead to a huge luscious premium one which you then buy for half the proper price?

Because that is effectively what you have done with the bananas?