A routine grocery order gone wildly wrong just delivered the feel-good story we all needed. A Tesco supermarket in Kirkwall, a town in the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland, meant to order 750 lbs of bananas — roughly 3,000 of them. Instead, a unit-of-measure mix-up in the ordering system delivered 380 wholesale boxes, each containing about 100 bananas.
That’s roughly 38,000 bananas at a single store in a community where the entire population of Orkney is about 22,000, according to the National Records of Scotland. So, what did they do with all those bananas?
Tesco Suffered a Major Bana...
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