There’s no money in Amazon’s free banana stand
Back in 2015, e-commerce giant Amazon had a great idea: free bananas to anyone who wanted one. So the company opened up a community banana stand on its Seattle campus and has been giving them away ever since.
Now, according to Amazon, they’ve given out their one millionth banana and are averaging about 5,000 a day.
Bananas are free to literally anyone, says Amazon, not just company employees.
“Bananas are a great healthy snack with built-in compostable packaging,” an Amazon spokesman said in a statement. “We hope the community likes it, and if they do, we’ll keep doing it.”