It Has Bananas All over the World (and Above): the Scottish Island of 7.5 Thousand Inhabitants Receives 38 Thousand Fruits by Deceit; It Has Been Viral

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A seemingly simple failure has resulted in an unexplained scene in the archipelago of the Orkney Islands. An error in command in a network unit of Tesco resulted in the delivery of about 38 thousand bananas, a number exceeding the local population. The shipment was directed to the network store in Kirkwall, the main city of the islands, which has approximately 7,500 inhabitants. The error occurred when a staff member requested 380 large fruit bo…

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A supermarket in Orkney, an archipelago north of Scotland, mistakenly ordered almost twice as many bananas as the islands' population. Bad weather at sea prevented the return of the fruit, so they decided to distribute them to local residents. Thousands of bananas were sold in just three days.