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âWhere is the common sense?â Woolworths slammed over photo of packaged bananas

12:48pm Mar 5, 2018 Disgruntled shoppers have expressed outrage after a photo of plastic-packaged bananas stocked in a Woolworths supermarket emerged online.

The photo, uploaded to user discussion website Reddit yesterday, shows bunches of bananas pre-packaged in hard plastic boxes at an unknown store.

A Woolworths logo can be seen on boxes carrying the fruit.

The photo, posted to Reddit, shows bunches of bananas encased in hard plastic. The location of the store is unknown. (Reddit / jigsaw153) (Reddit / jigsaw153)

“Bananas now need packaging, it seems,” the Reddit user wrote.

“… I hate that. They already come pre-packaged by nature!” replied another user.

The photo has renewed discussion online over the unnecessary use of plastic and individual packaging in supermarkets such as Coles and Woolworths.

“The reason why they are starting to pre-pack them is because of the way people treat the piece of fruit they don’t want,” one Facebook user said.

A photo of a single potato packaged in plastic at Woolworths sparked an online petition. (Change.org) (Change.org)


Others speculated the practice was a way to crack down on customers using self-service checkouts.

“This is about streamlining self-service checkout … (it’s) quicker to scan a bar code than weigh an item,” one person said.

But many lamented the practice, saying it was “completely stupid”.

“Woolworths, stop packaging the fruit and veg in plastic. We have enough plastic in the environment,” another Facebook user said. “Shoppers have now become conditioned to grab a plastic bag for every type of fresh fruit and veg.”

More than two years ago, a similar image of a single sweet potato wrapped in plastic and dumped on a styrofoam tray at a Woolworths store in Broome sparked an online petition. It was restarted last June and garnered more than 250,000 signatures.

It also emerged that the fruit and vegetables most likely to be packed in plastic were organic produce.

Woolworths has since announced it would be phasing out single-use plastic bags, with a total ban in place by June this year.

Supermarket chain Coles followed suit with a similar promise to ban the bags nationwide within 12 months.

“Well. they want to outlaw plastic at the checkout and here they are wrapping fruit in plastic,” a Facebook user said.

“Where is the common sense?”









