A routine grocery order gone wildly wrong just delivered the feel-good story we all needed. A Tesco supermarket in Kirkwall, a town in the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland, meant to order 750 lbs of bananas - roughly 3,000 of them. Instead, a unit-of-measure mix-up in the ordering system delivered 380 wholesale boxes, each containing about 100 bananas. That's roughly 38,000 bananas at a single store in a community where the entire population of Orkney is about 22,000, according to the National Records of Scotland.
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Tesco Store Accidentally Orders 38,000 Bananas Due to Glitch
April 6, 2026
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