Starbucks, Los Angeles: At 90 cents, we’ve got a record for a non-airport banana. This is the second-cheapest item on the Starbucks snack menu (after vanilla mini-scones, at 75 cents.) I was told the fruit is not a big seller, and that a cursory check of the dumpster after closing time would prove this.
The banana price is seen as too high, I’m guessing, even at a place where the customers seem willing to purchase donuts for a buck and a half, which I’m sure is unconstitutional.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman 
I’m guilty of occasionally purchasing bananas at $0.90, or close to that. But it is easier to pick up a banana at or near work than to eat the mush that used to be a banana I brought in my lunch sack.