"<p>As the story goes, Trader Joe's was trying to figure out how to price bananas (by the bundle or individually) when a Sun City employee noticed an old woman inspecting the fruit and ultimately putting it back. When he asked her why, she told him, ""Sonny, I may not live to that fourth banana."" According to Dan Bane, CEO and chairman at Trader Joe's, the company ""decided the next day that we were going to sell individual bananas, and they've been 19 cents ever since,"" he said on the <a href=""https://www.traderjoes.com/digin/post/inside-tjs-podcast"" rel=""nofollow noopener"" target=""_blank"" data-ylk=""slk:Trader Joe's podcast"" class=""link rapid-noclick-resp"">Trader Joe's podcast</a>. </p>"
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