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Orkney Supermarket goes Bananas. · Mark and Pete

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  Orkney supermarket goes bananas. Welcome to Mark and Pete, in
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  which we feature in this story in this episode, A banana
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  apocalypse. Yes, we are Mark and Pete 2
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  blokes with half an opinion. Now here's our first thought.
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  If you're feeling frightfully fruity and are compelled to do
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  the splits, then you've gone completely bananas and
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  completely lost your. Wits.
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  Yes, well, how on earth could anybody go completely bananas?
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  Well, a supermarket in Orkney definitely could.
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  Well, what's strange about this particular story is that they
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  accidentally ordered instead of 380 kilograms of wholesale boxes
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  of bananas 38,000 Yes, goodness me.
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  Well, that's a lot of fruity sales if you if you ask me, Mr.
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  Pete. Now I know that if you've gone
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  completely bananas and pushed the button and accidentally
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  ordered 38,000 bananas and more, that might be a bit of a slip up
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  on the account. What's the news?
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  About this. Story Yes, the plans of the
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  diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is
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  hasty comes only to poverty. Proverbs 21 verse five yes, a
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  hasty click of the button of the mouse, whatever it was that
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  caused this problem of of adding zeros to the number in the order
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  certainly has caused an issue and it's it's interesting is it
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  seems amusing, I think because of the product.
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  Now I don't know if you remember the famous film about the
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  abundance of whiskey called whiskey galore.
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  I don't know if Oh yes, this film we have this famous film
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  based on a true incident, but obviously exaggerated.
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  There is where there is an island.
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  I don't know if it was actually Orkney, but it may have been it
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  was an island off the coast of Scotland.
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  It may even have been the same supermarket that misordered, I
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  don't know. But in in the story, you know,
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  it's a remote island and there's a ship it's shipwrecked and they
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  get all the whiskey. And so there's there's whiskey
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  galore. And so it's amusing, but of
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  course it isn't really. And it's a serious, serious
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  problem for the company, for those involved in the shipwreck,
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  etcetera, etcetera. And here this seems amusing, but
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  that's a lot of money to waste for a start.
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  And then the food is wasted. Like you can give it away, but
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  my question is how many bananas can you eat?
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  Well, this is what actually happened, because then somebody
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  kicked in with the great idea of hold on, we've got a surplus of
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  bananas. So what they did is instead of
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  returning to the mainland because of high winds, which
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  would have disrupted the the whole flow.
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  And of course, let's be honest, bananas do not last that long.
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  And So what happened was Tesco's came in and said, hold on, the
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  superstore could give them away to community groups and schools
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  in the area. And that's what they did, Yes.
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  So yes, Tesco's went bananas. Other comments could be made,
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  but in actual fact in a positive way.
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  So this was really a champion for turning really what could
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  have been a real big slip up into something positive.
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  Now, I will say that I wouldn't really sort of suggest that this
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  is a strategy that they should adopt because at the end of the
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  day, let's be honest, you know, when you, when we make an error
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  of that sort of magnitude, it can cost you.
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  Because I was thinking, what if you were to say, order some
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  other products, I mean magic, say for example, you ordered, I
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  don't know, 38,000 toilet rolls or if you ordered 38,000
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  something else. Yes, I think the key is the
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  short shelf life. But once they're ripe, they last
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  less than a week, don't they just Oh yes, 5.
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  Or 6. Days a banana and so then then
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  that causes the problem. If it were toilet rolls, as long
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  as you kept them dry you could send them back if you know.
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  If it was something like with a long shelf life, there's a
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  possibility. But you.
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  Could accidentally order something expensive that has a
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  short. I mean I I don't know whether
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  they serve caviar in. Maybe that has AI don't know
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  anything about caviar, but something else and maybe some
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  some sort of fish products that you could that you've ordered in
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  it goes off pretty quickly and you know, you suddenly you're
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  well, you've got it's not the. First time?
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  Yeah, it's the first time they've done this because
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  Orkney's North Isles inadvertently ordered 720 Easter
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  eggs rather than 80 that the owner wanted.
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  Now, of course, they had to do another charity thing.
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  So I think we can see a theme here developing, can't we, that
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  if you want, you want some surplus products, go to the
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  Orkney Isles. And maybe you too could go
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  completely bananas on the. Island.
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  Yes, you heard it here first, folks.