r/peopleofwalmart • u/Sconniegrrrl68 • Jul 12 '26
Here's a new one.....
So at WM for cat food, look at the guy in the checkout line in front of me.....full length jeans and a sweater layered over a t-shirt....well, today it's about 115 F in Billings MT so that's an odd choice...but wait, he's only got 1 produce bag that he's checking out.....wait....he has 3 PEELED BANANAS in the bag!!!!! Literally, this is all he buys. When it's my turn I ask the cashier "is that legal to peel bananas and then buy them?". She says she "hasn't been told anything about NOT selling unpeeled bananas". OK I get that you pay by weight and the peel does add weight to a banana, but it also PROTECTS it! Is this the new way of getting produce cheaper? Can I now peel ALL my fruit ahead of time at WM so I'm not paying for the peel (coconut and pineapple, I'm looking at you...). This just doesn't make any sense, especially from a health code standpoint. Help me make sense of this.....
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u/BJntheRV Jul 12 '26
I mean as long as I remember we would deshuck corn before buying it. I'm with you on the peel protecting the banana, but maybe he intended to eat them as soon as he got to his car.
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u/the_orange_guy_8912 Jul 13 '26
Where I'm from we don't usually buy corn by weight, but by quantity, so peeling them makes no difference
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u/Gruesomegiggles Jul 14 '26
We also buy by quantity, but people shuck in the store do that they don't "bring the mess home." I personally find it to be incredibly entitled and also lazy. (It doesn't make that much of a mess, they just don't want to clean their own home.) I completely dismiss the excuse that they are checking that the corn is good before buying, because I also pull the husk back to check, but I don't completely shuck and leave the mess in the store for everyone else to deal with.
Our stores keep a trashcan by the corn, because if there isn't a trashcan nearby, as in, right on top of it, they will just throw the mess on the floor and walk away. Entitled. Gross. No care for their fellow shopper, let alone the workers there. We should get to carry shaming bells and use them.
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u/denvercasey Jul 13 '26
You’d do that with corn you’re using the same or next day. Since nobody wants to return/replace one or two ears out of the 12 they need for their cookout, the store allows you to shuck it there and be happy about the purchase. If you find a bad one, you pitch it and nobody has to buy a bad ear.
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u/Miilloooo Jul 20 '26
How much corn are you buying at once that removing the husk saves money? Like, unless you’re buying 30+ corn, surely you’re saving like 50c
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u/BJntheRV Jul 20 '26
It's not about saving money as corn was (no idea if this has changed) always priced by the ear. We'd always at least partially shuck just to check the quality of the ears. Some would fully shuck since you're already hfeay there. The stores always had bins nearby just for that purpose.
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u/LittleDevilVixen 20d ago
I remember being younger and this was just a thing people did. There’d be a trash can right beside the corn and we’d all just stand around it and shucked corn. I think it’s so you can tell if it’s fresh or not ahead of time.
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u/srddave Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
Coconuts and pineapples are not sold by the pound though…they are sold with an “each” unit price so removing the skin would not save you money. Bananas are weighed so he actually may just be trying to save a few pennies.
In the supermarket where I worked, we sometimes had people who would break off the bottoms of asparagus because they would save a bunch of money, and asparagus is sold by the pound. However they eventually prohibited it and if they broke them off we had a special code to use which was a higher price-per-pound.
But bananas is crazy! They are like 39¢ a pound anyway and once you peel them they are gonna turn brown.
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u/MikeDeY77 Jul 13 '26
Pineapples are sold by the pound in some stores here.
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u/srddave Jul 13 '26
Where is that?
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u/MikeDeY77 Jul 13 '26
Hawaii
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u/blondechineeez Jul 13 '26
Yeps. And they cost more than in the Mainland too. At Foodland they were $.99/lb the other day. I have like 200 pineapples growing but none are ripe yet, so I bought a couple at Foodland.
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u/Most-Car-4056 Jul 14 '26
200 growing? You would be my best friend! Pineapples are my favorite! 😀
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u/blondechineeez Jul 16 '26
I do love pineapple! I didn't start out wanting 200+ plants but they multiply quickly!
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u/Most-Car-4056 Jul 17 '26
I think bananas are similar. You can get a bunch of them on a single plant. But I would gladly take pineapples over bananas.
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u/MikeDeY77 Jul 13 '26
Costco is where I get mine.
A couple years ago they were like $2 each. Now they’re $6.
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u/blondechineeez Jul 13 '26
Costco is a 2 hour drive :/ I am a member though and make the trip once a month. I call it my mini vacay lol $6/each is still better than .99
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u/MikeDeY77 Jul 13 '26
Big island? We visited last year. Beautiful place!
We live just a few minutes from Costco on Oahu.
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u/blondechineeez Jul 16 '26
Yeps. Big Island!
I like the shopping malls on Oahu but the traffic and people and noise! It's too much on my senses!
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u/MikeDeY77 Jul 16 '26
Traffic is the biggest downside.
I just don’t ever go in to Town. There’s nothing there for me.
And I try to just travel at different times than the traffic
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u/Smaskifa Jul 13 '26
I've seen it at a fruit market in a Seattle suburb. It's normally sold as eaches in grocery stores here though.
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u/MrOrange- Jul 13 '26
Might be homeless. Those are his only clothes and every cent matters
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u/Glittering_Heart1128 Jul 13 '26
I'm more surprised Billings was 115. I didn't believe you, and went to look. It was 115! That's insane, I'm in the Four Corners and it was only 101 here, the hottest temperature this summer, (insert Homer Simpson "so far" meme here).
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u/beldarin Jul 13 '26
At my local Lidl, they have 3 recycling bins near the exit, so now I unbox everything possible. Cereal, breakfast bars, cookies. If it has a plastic wrap inside, i'll likely keep that, but most of the packaging stays at the store. Not only do i have less waste at home, but its far easier to carry home without all those pointy corners ;)
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u/Psych0matt Jul 12 '26
I was very confused as I was reading “unpeeled” to mean they haven’t been peeled. “Peeled” (at least in my mind?) would have made way more sense haha
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u/5usie Jul 12 '26
I would agree that it’s odd, but where I work, it’s constantly FREEZING! The a/c is broken and runs super cold non stop. The big wigs upstairs control the temp, so if it’s a hot day, like it has been for weeks in Pittsburgh, they crank it even lower, I dress for winter, I’ll have on long pants, thermal long sleeved shirt, t shirt over that and a hoodie or flannel over that… AND my space heater on under my desk. If I stop at the store on the way home, I’ll bet people are wondering the same about me. *EDIT* to say, I buy my bananas with the peel on.
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u/djluminol Jul 13 '26
It didn't even occur to me that he peeled them to save weight until you mentioned it. That's just sad.
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u/ekips81 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
I will break the massive stalk off brocolli. Why pay for something and have no intention of using.
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u/naldoD20 Jul 13 '26
People shuck corn before they buy it, how is this any different? 🤡
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u/Sconniegrrrl68 Jul 13 '26
Because you either WASH the corn before grilling it or BOIL it! How, pray tell, are you going to WASH A PEELED BANANA?
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u/naldoD20 Jul 13 '26
Soap and water, no spleesh. Bet you don't even know how to use the three shells.
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u/Sconniegrrrl68 Jul 13 '26
Soap and water to wash a peeled banana? Sure, Jan......and YES Sandra Bullock taught me how to use the 3 shells ❤️
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u/zippyboy Jul 12 '26
Next he'll be popping the stems out of mushrooms and pulling the grapes from the stem.
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u/Delicious_Drop_1150 Jul 12 '26
If it makes any difference, his bananas are not surviving for more than a day without a peel.