AIBU Strange banana business in Tesco's

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I was in Tesco at the checkout earlier in front of a mother (30s) with double buggy and one toddler sitting on it visible. I was waiting for (very slow) customer in front of me to get her cards out and pay. The very young cashier was clearly extremely bored/nearly asleep (don't blame her) and yawning madly. Suddenly, the mother behind me said to her "Do you have a bin?" - she agreed she did, whereupon the mother handed her a perfectly good banana in one of those thin transparent bags and asked her to put it in the bin. She then said to the cashier, "You look as though you are thinking I should be paying for it but it's free to kids, isn't it?". (She had just opened a pack of oaty bars that she had not yet paid for and handed toddler one so I suppose she thought he wouldn't eat the banana after all). We were all a bit taken aback and I went away wondering why, if she wasn't willing to replace it on the banana shelf herself, she didn't just apologise and ask cashier if she could leave it there for a member of staff to put back. In effect, she was throwing away perfectly good Tesco stock that she had decided not to have and hadn't paid for. AIBU?

Yes. It’s Friday night and you’re worrying about a banana.

They offer one piece of free fruit for children in Tesco. It’s a banana, apple or satsuma

Tesco do provide free fruit for kids in some stores. Perhaps it was one of those that the toddler had picked up? Would have better to put it back herself admittedly

Yes, I know they provide a piece of free fruit for children but is it appropriate to waste it?

lucky you weren't behind the man I saw take a free child's banana eat it and laugh saying " well I'm with my mum and I' m her child!" out loud. He had a big grin on his face and no one could help but smile.

Such a strange thing to do. Had the child taken a bite out of it, maybe?

I think it was a pristine banana - the bag was knotted shut and I think she just said they didn't want it now so could the cashier bin it for her. This came immediately after child was given an oat bar to stop it crying.
NowYouHaveDoneIt - ha, ha - I don't think that would have annoyed me as much as this woman did!

Tesco do a free piece of fruit for kids. Not sure why she wanted to bin it, but she was probably ok to pick it up for them to eat for free.

Not like my little monster that screams until she gets a carrot. They don’t put those in the free box!

lucky you weren't behind the man I saw take a free child's banana eat it and laugh saying " well I'm with my mum and I' m her child!" out loud. He had a big grin on his face and no one could help but smile.

I've often wondered why I can't have one of those when I've been buying 1 banana.

Did the cashier actually bin it though?

I wish someone would give me free bananas. I really like bananas.

I don't know but I thought this thread was going to be about giant bananas. I went shopping this evening, and bought some bananas and all the ones in the display were massive, really huge. Even the cashier remarked on them as she put them through the till. Alien bananas.

My husband was once told off for breaking two bananas off from a bigger bunch... Not by a staff member, by another customer.

He's never got over it!

Are you sure it hadn’t been partially eaten? It’s quite hard tell and that would make more sense especially with it being in a knotted bag.

I bet it had been bitten into. You wouldn't be able to tell with the skin.

Well the cashier didn't have to bin it, did s/he?

If either of my 2 children don't eat their free fruit I take it home.

People put bananas in a bag?

Yes so not only did she waste a perfectly good banana, but also a bag.

When I've picked one up for my kids and they've refused it I usually just forget about it and they eat it later at home or something.

My kids eat the free fruit and put skins on the bag and knot it. Sometimes it looks like a whole of partially whole banana still, but it's either because there's a massive squishy bit in it, or just the way the skin has fallen on itself.

I hate waste. YANBU.

I don't think the point of the free fruit is that people take it home!

If the toddler has been throwing the bagged banana out of the pushchair all round the shop - as seems likely - then it is a very very bruised and unhappy piece of fruit. A plastic bag is no protection for such treatment.

I am impressed the Mum had the decency to ask for it to be binned rather than coyly returning it to the shelves.

Post Brexit that woman will regret denying her child a banana when there are none in the shop and innocent school children point to pictures of them and ask what they are.

Shakes head sadly and moves on Ignoring the fact that bananas don't grow in Europe or travel through Europe..........