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Internet Selling Goes Bananas

Banana%20Picture.jpgIn what is a gargantuan demonstration of online selling success, supermarket giant Tesco has sold 11 million bananas online in the first seven months of 2006.  According to silicon.com, 11 million bananas is about 1650 tons, or laid end to end...

"...a line that would stretch 1,375 miles in length, or long enough to connect London to Russia or even large parts of Northern Africa - perhaps in a devilish attempt to lure some  great apes out of the continent to follow this fruitiest of yellow brick roads."

 

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