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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Readers reply: why aren’t bananas that are sold in the UK more expensive?

A woman holds some bananas in a supermarket.
None cheaper … bananas. Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images

Why are bananas so cheap to buy in the UK? In a big supermarket, a single banana costs about 15p, but presumably it has been shipped thousands of miles at some expense. Other individually sold fruit – even the stuff grown in the UK – seems to cost two or three times as much. Magdalena, by email

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