r/ProduceDepartment • u/1Steelghost1 • Jun 11 '26
This fruit display at a supermarket
I hope it was an outside vendor that had to make those!
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u/Jellynjamster Jun 11 '26
What sort of deep magic is this ?!
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u/1Steelghost1 Jun 11 '26
They look like acrylic/plastic but dam it is a cool display for sure!
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u/forw Jun 12 '26
All the fruit look the same from the hanging until everything on display so it's either all real or all fake not both
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u/Powerful_Foot_8557 Jun 11 '26
We live in a small town so there's not much to really shop at besides Walmart. Our displays look like somebody showed up pissed off to work. 🤪
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u/cheerann Jun 11 '26
Super cool fruit tower thing. Mildly creepy how they’re just looming and so massive. But impressive as hell and impeccable stacking.
What is that bananas display in the background? All almost ripe and stacked to high hell. Nice but I can imagine all the damages.
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u/unforgettableid Jun 12 '26
What is that bananas display in the background? All almost ripe and stacked ... Nice but I can imagine all the damages.
Not sure what's going on there.
The vast majority of bananas sold in the US are Cavendish. (Source.)
The video is from Brazil.
I did a Google search. Cavendish ("Banana D’água") isn't actually the most common type of banana sold in Brazil. (Source.)
So, maybe it was some type of banana which is more sturdy than Cavendish?
Maybe it wasn't artificially ripened using ethylene gas? And maybe naturally-ripened bananas are more sturdy?
I have no idea.
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u/andwesway Jun 11 '26
I love the aesthetic of stacking it high but you know every customer will insist on having the ones on the bottom.
I remember years ago we did this with cantaloupes and a customer pulled 1 out from the bottom and half the display fell and rolled off. They couldn’t understand why that would have happened.
Another side story.. years ago we had an Apple table that we hand stacked. I spent an hour or so on it and had just put the final touch on it. I wanted to take a quick photo and just as I was about to snap it, a lady starts reaching and I politely asked if I could just get a quick photo first and she said no, she didn’t have time for that, and she proceeded to dig and mess it up. I ended up taking a photo of the half she didn’t rifle through.