Where Amazon opens offices, free bananas follow. You can thank Jeff Bezos.
outside its Seattle headquarters in 2015. The idea came from Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos, who wanted to offer a free snack that was healthy and didn't come heavily packaged, Amazon told Insider.
Bananas have another advantage, Amazon told Insider: You don't need to wash them before taking a bite. In the first year and a half, Amazon gave out 1.7 million bananas, according to the Journal. Today, Amazon says, it distributes thousands of bananas each week. It also has a total of seven stands: Two in Seattle, one in nearby Bellevue, one in Nashville, two in Arlington, and another in Tokyo.about the first stand in Seattle, the company interviews enthusiastic patrons of the stand, one even says,"This is my daily breakfast.
"Anyone can come in off the street: employees, non-employees, children, dogs," says a"banista," a riff on"barista," who works at the stand. A banana stand also popped up temporarily at Washington DC's Union Station in 2017 as the company was facing increasing criticism from Congress,
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