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Green Bannannas - Yellow Bannanna Adrian (24th Nov 2020 - 16:44:18) Somethings never change, once again only green bannannas at Sainsburys. I even ate one today, yellow ones are far nicer.

Re: Green Bannannas - WENDY MARTIN (25th Nov 2020 - 09:49:18) What a fuss, all you have to do is leave them in a bowl for a couple of days and they will turn yellow. Better that, than buy them over ripe and they go brown after a couple of days.

Re: Green Bannannas - Yellow Bannanna Adrian (26th Nov 2020 - 05:39:16) Yes i know you can leave them a few days to ripen but what if you go in and want a bannanna to eat that day or perhaps the next. Why can't Sainsburys have half the display with Yellow ripe bannannas for the i want a baannanna now brigade and half for the ripen at home people . Surely that can be done. All the people at sainsburys need to do is keep half the next delivery of green unedible bannannas in the store for 3-4 days to ripen and then put them out on display, and do that for every delivery and everyone would be happy.

Re: Green Bannannas - Tracey (26th Nov 2020 - 17:14:57) Hi, when you are next in can you please ask to speak to a produce colleague if the banana's are to green for you. As a member of staff who works on produce full time, we can then show you that your suggestion to hold bananas back for so many days is impossible but as i am sure you won't, I shall explain a couple of things on here for you... 1. Bananas are delivered green to us and ripen on site, how quickly that happens is down to the temperature in our warehouse, which at present is so cold it could freeze the nuts off a brass monkey! 2. They arrive with a VERY short sell by date so if I was found to have out of date stock lying around in the warehouse, I would find my self out of a job I'm sure. Anyway I have just completed my shift today, filling the shelves for people like yourself to have a nice shop at these troubling times and will now spend some quality time with my own family, until the alarm rings at 4am so I can be back in at 5am to start it all over again! Now to all the lovely and supportive customers thank you for shopping at our store and i hope I can satisfy most of you on your daily shop in this run up to Christmas.

Re: Green Bannannas - D (26th Nov 2020 - 18:04:31) Tracey, it's BALLS off a brass monkey. A "brass monkey" is the device cannonballs were stacked on on board a ship. As brass and iron expand and contract at a different rate in very cold weather this would cause the cannon balls to no longer fit on the monkey so they would fall off. Maybe you used the word "nuts" out of politeness.

Re: Green Bannannas - Yellow Bannanna Adrian (27th Nov 2020 - 04:29:52) Tracey Please rest assured the post was not a dig at you and your colleagues who are doing a great job in difficult and unusual times. However as to your answer about the bannannas, if your answer is true why are other shops including other sainsburys branches able to supply yellow bannannas.

Re: Green Bannannas - Joe (27th Nov 2020 - 10:48:34) I prefer to buy green bananas - by the way Adrian your spelling is atrocious. In these difficult days I prefer not to shop too often, which I would have to do if bananas were already ripe. You seem to lead a very narrow existence if that is on your mind.

Re: Green Bannannas - er (27th Nov 2020 - 13:30:19) Tracey, you should be working in the PR department, you are wasted stacking these fools bananas!

Re: Green Bannannas - Penny Williamson (27th Nov 2020 - 14:31:33) Tracy please ignore D's post he is just trying to be funny - not. I would like to say a big thank you to Sainsburys staff whom I have always found courteous and helpful. YBA's post are infantile in the extreme and probably best ignored. However I liked your responses.

Re: Green Bannannas - Tracey (27th Nov 2020 - 14:33:59) Hi Adrian. If you are a frequent shopper in the store you may have noticed we are quiet an old shop, it's not just the workers that are on their last legs ;) but a lot of the shop/equipment is too, the heating being one of them we cook in the summer and freeze in the winter. I usually take your posts in my stride but i felt what was said at the end of your post deserved a reply this time, anyway my job is done here so I shall wish you well and say goodbye.

Re: Green Bannannas - @ (27th Nov 2020 - 17:33:31) I use to work at Liphook Sainsburys and it use to get so cold I would wear a jumper underneath my work one!

Re: Green Bannannas - D (27th Nov 2020 - 18:16:30) Penny, thankyou for your comments on my post concerning a brass monkey's balls. Tracey, I have had jobs involving contact with the public and know how they can be the best, and worst, part of the job. I feel for you because I know how difficult they can be at times, you have my utmost respect.

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