Whole Foods pulled pre-peeled oranges from store shelves after social media users raised concern about the impact the unnecessary plastic packaging may have on the environment.
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So, why on earth would they think plastic packaging surrounding oranges – a fruit that can typically go without packaging?
She added that the huge response to her tweet had “broken her phone”, with thousands of users messaging her about the tweet. But some other people are defending the practice.
‘We hear you, and we will leave them in their natural packaging: the peel’.
Another said: ‘I guess people are too busy to peel an orange!’.
On the one hand, this process does make things easier for those who just want to chow down on orangy goodness without the mess and stress of dealing with the peel.
It is not the first time that Whole Foods products have come under fire.
A spokeswoman added that many customers want convenience but that this experiment wasn’t “fully thought through”.
Nathalie Gordon, a Twitter user, took a photo of the oranges in the store, which calls itself “America’s healthiest grocery store”.
This also prompted ridicule online, one tweeter said: ‘$6.00 for Asparagus water?
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Last summer a customer instagrammed a snap of a few soggy asparagus stalks in some water, which was on sale for $5.99 (about £4.20). Ok, maybe that’s a stretch and we admit we’re fond of Whole Foods, but this is a little ridiculous.
