Bananas: The fruit of our labor
Your local grocery store is a wealth of logistics activities. Have you ever looked at the banana you are eating for lunch and wondered where it’s been? Do you care? The process of getting that banana from producer to consumer is an interesting exercise in logistics and transportation. The average banana travels about 4,000 miles before being pulled out of your blue & white metal “Logistics Superhero” lunchbox (with ubiquitous matching Thermos bottle). Bananas already come in a protective “container”, but bananas are delicate…