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Amazon’s Free Banana Stands Disrupting Local Fruit Economy (consumerist.com)
8 points by lumisota on May 22, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



"Although there is no money in Amazon’s community banana stands" - excellent hidden Arrested Development reference.

There's _always_ money in the banana stand. Bezos knows this.


Any idea why they're doing this? PR reasons?

The linked Consumerist article doesn't say, and I can't get past the paywall of the original wsj.com article, even using the `web` link here.


The linked Consumerist article doesn't say

I imagine that's because the author was really just looking for an excuse to use that opening sentence. The rest was just filler.




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