Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The absurdity of capitalism

 Billa, an Austria-based, German-owned supermarket chain which has locations in nine countries across Europe, thought it was a good idea to sell pre-peeled bananas wrapped in plastic and promote it as a 'common sense' move. It was environmentally unfriendly and wasteful. After all, the banana is one of the most convenient naturally packaged foods out there and it doesn't take much effort to peel one.

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