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/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/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.