Absurdism corner
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elwing
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$10,000 Goal....
Kickstarter is just ridiculous.
rygD
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It probably won't even work.
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rygD
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I bet if they came with their own integrated wrapper/packaging the price would drop slightly. Maybe someone should try to genetically modify them to make that happen.
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erico
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From a Brazilian point of view that is quite a super absurd...
rygD
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I think it is equally as absurd no matter where you are from.From a Brazilian point of view that is quite a super absurd...
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Are you complaining about the packaging or the price? Both are pretty absurd if you ask me.
erico
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Some places on earth may not get fresh bananas as easy and I have no idea how they pack them over.
Apart from that, packaging like that feels absurd, but it sure must have been done internally by the supermarket in an attempt to push units instead of the usual bunch, which again at that price...I have the same kind home in a bunch of 8, it costed about 90 cents of a dollar, and I got it from a VERY expensive place. Apple-Bananas or red bananas are, for example, way way moooore expensive.
So thinking again, they are not that absurd. The pack can be explained by supermarket internals and price can be explained by imports.
Price is not really absurd if you compare the salary and good´s value of the country (I guess it must be England).
If I get a 12 bananas in a bunch, even if they are green, there may be a possibility some can end up rotting, which is not nice, and in such case, it is best to let the birds have them.
So here is another reason to pack by unit. It may be people´s preferences. Also, if you enclose it somehow, you get less bugs pestering it, as bananas (an beer) are sure to bring a lot of the local´s drosophila melanogasters.
It is just that I never ever commonly saw bananas in a plastic thing at about 8x more expensive, but in a very few situations.
At the end I think it is understandable and not an absurd thing.
Apart from that, packaging like that feels absurd, but it sure must have been done internally by the supermarket in an attempt to push units instead of the usual bunch, which again at that price...I have the same kind home in a bunch of 8, it costed about 90 cents of a dollar, and I got it from a VERY expensive place. Apple-Bananas or red bananas are, for example, way way moooore expensive.
So thinking again, they are not that absurd. The pack can be explained by supermarket internals and price can be explained by imports.
Price is not really absurd if you compare the salary and good´s value of the country (I guess it must be England).
If I get a 12 bananas in a bunch, even if they are green, there may be a possibility some can end up rotting, which is not nice, and in such case, it is best to let the birds have them.
So here is another reason to pack by unit. It may be people´s preferences. Also, if you enclose it somehow, you get less bugs pestering it, as bananas (an beer) are sure to bring a lot of the local´s drosophila melanogasters.
It is just that I never ever commonly saw bananas in a plastic thing at about 8x more expensive, but in a very few situations.
At the end I think it is understandable and not an absurd thing.
rygD
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To sell them individually they could sell them by weight and have it calculated at check out, just like the bunches. Actually, I think you can do that at stores here; take what you want and they calculate the cost based on total weight.
I feel that vegetables, fruit and such, and especially bananas, grow their own packaging and don't need more except when transported or stored in bulk. Individually packaging bananas (again) and printing labels adds to the overall cost in materials and through paying employees to take them out of shipping boxes, weigh them individually, package and label them, then set up the display. Additional products could be put on display in the space wasted by this. The only benefits would be reducing bugs and the chance for additional losses due to them rotting and such, and taking a bunch with them.
I still think it is absurd, and not just for the reasons I listed (although it is quite telling about the state of the world when every last little natural thing sold is modified, wrapped in plastic, labeled and can probably be found on a shelf in a store in most parts of the developed world). At first I was amused by it, but now that I have more thoroughly analyzed it I feel it is quite wasteful. I also think I don't like something about this.
I feel that vegetables, fruit and such, and especially bananas, grow their own packaging and don't need more except when transported or stored in bulk. Individually packaging bananas (again) and printing labels adds to the overall cost in materials and through paying employees to take them out of shipping boxes, weigh them individually, package and label them, then set up the display. Additional products could be put on display in the space wasted by this. The only benefits would be reducing bugs and the chance for additional losses due to them rotting and such, and taking a bunch with them.
I still think it is absurd, and not just for the reasons I listed (although it is quite telling about the state of the world when every last little natural thing sold is modified, wrapped in plastic, labeled and can probably be found on a shelf in a store in most parts of the developed world). At first I was amused by it, but now that I have more thoroughly analyzed it I feel it is quite wasteful. I also think I don't like something about this.
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