1. What’s the most popular item sold in a grocery store?

2. How do bananas get here?
Dole has their US West Coast operations in the Port of San Diego.
The Dole Terminal comprises 20.5 acres and can hold up to foot containers and has electrical outlets to keep the refrigeration units running.
Dole has three ships that come into the San Diego port.

3. How do Bananas get here? Each voyage is 21 days long.
Fruit is loaded in Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.
Each week on Monday and Tuesday one of the ships is in San Diego.

5. So exactly how many bananas is this?
How many containers do you think the ship holds?
How many boxes of bananas?
How many bananas in a box?
How many bananas does Dole bring into the US from San Diego in a year?
Note: All imported bananas are green. They are ripened at the grocery store warehouses.
491 containers
1000 boxes
100 bananas in a box
Over 2 billion (about 2 and ½ billion)

6. Dole is the 5th largest importer of containerized cargo in a year
Dole is the 5th largest importer of containerized cargo in a year. Who do you think the top 4 are?
Walmart
Target
Home Depot
Kmart/Sears
Dole