Being able to order your groceries online has become a great way to save time for many busy people. You don't have to brave the store, which means you have a better chance of only buying what you need and not all the little things that find their way into your cart. But just like using any technology, there's always a chance something will go wrong with your order.
A pregnant woman in New York recently went viral after a hilarious mishap with her online grocery order that will have you thanking your lucky stars that it wasn't you this happened to.
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She thought she was being proactive by ordering groceries on the fly.
Mom-to-be Alle Karol, and her husband Spencer Blatt, were out shopping for their baby's nursery when Karol remembered that she needed to order the couple's groceries for the week. She figured that she would get two things done at once and simply reorder a July order from her phone. It took her approximately three minutes, and then she could check one more thing off her list, she explained in an interview with People.
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When the order arrived, it wasn't what she was expecting.
Karol noticed the order was a little more expensive than usual, but chalked it up to the fact that she must have ordered a costly cut of meat. If only that was the case.
"Usually, my order would be around two bags of groceries. I opened the door and there were about fifteen bags in the hallway," Karol explained. "I freaked out, yelled for Spencer, and ran back into the apartment."
"At first, I thought maybe I had ordered my usual order multiple times," she continued. "But then Spencer looked through the bags. He turned around and said, 'Alle, what did you do? This is only bananas.'"
They had 99 bunches of bananas.
While Blatt found the whole thing hilarious, Karol was genuinely upset about her mistake. There was only one bag of actual groceries, which meant that in addition to the mistake, she reordered a small order. It made her cry.
"I felt terrible that I had wasted all these bananas," she admitted. "I didn’t think I would be allowed to return them or donate them because of food contamination rules. I felt sad that I had taken them from the monkeys and now they would be wasted."
The whole thing went viral.
Blatt filmed their apartment full of bananas, and sent the video to Karol's sister, who of course, put it on TikTok. Soon, the video had thousands of likes. The comments were full of people who couldn't believe the error, but none that were hurtful.
"Nobody blamed the pregnant person, which was nice," Karol said.
"How did the store have 99 bunches in stock?" one comment reads. "Why didn’t they call to clarify? this is hysterical."
"The banana bread is gonna go crazy," another person commented. "Look up banana pancakes too."
Even Google got in on the comments writing: "search results for banana recipes ready for you ."
Thankfully, they were able to sort it all out.
Karol left Blatt to deal with the bananas while she went out with a friend. He reached out to Fresh Direct's customer service team, and Karol said they were "so nice." They came and picked up the bananas that night, ending the drama.
"Spencer kept one bunch, and then we actually ran out later that week, so I think we should have kept two," Karol joked.
