Why do they put stickers on fruit?

Does anyone know why they put brand stickers on fruit? It ruins teh skin and then you wind up eating the stickum. Does anyone look for a specic brand of plum or nectarine?

Why do they put stickers on fruit?
depending on the supermarket you use, fruits and veggies may be pre-packed for you or loose, in which case you pick out your own and bag it. there are usually several varieties of the same fruit or veggie, and their prices vary. the stickers are on them, and if you notice, there are different codes on the particular varieties. some people would have no problem taking the higher price produce and telling the cashier it was the lower price. the cashier just has to look at the little annoying sticker and know what price to charge per pound.
Reply:some people loves orange but they prefer Sunkist brand instead of brand A so may b the company produce better oranges so, tat wat people want . it is jus like buying shoes u will prefer billabong to quiksilver(example)
Reply:to tell u what brand it is and when a cashier rings u up it tells the produce number incase they do not recognize the fruit
Reply:It's to let you know that someone inspected it and it is safe for consumption once leaving their site.
Reply:to let u know its fresh or not
Reply:I think people do
Reply:because the supermarket has a code system. the number on the sticker is the code for the cashier. sometimes, the sticker is to let the consumer know what company the fruit is from. example- sunkist will put a "sunkist" sticker on its oranges.
Reply:To show you where they came from....the grade; and yes, some people have favorite brands. The glue is harmless and washes right off.
Reply:Also to provide the scale price coding for the supermarket checkout person.
Reply:For the shippers and the graders, most people know SFA about the food they eat and the little numbered sticker tell them if it is an apple or an orange



sorry, check out clerkiettes and other minimum wage peoples, No Offence intended.
Reply:Well I work in a supermarket and I find the stickers very useful, because they help identify the spcific type of fruit (eg red delicious or jonagold apple) very quickly, and also they usually give the code of the fruit so I know what to put in the register, because they don't have barcodes.

An easy way to avoid eating part of the sticker is to remove it first, then give your fruit a quick rinse under cold water and then rub dry the skin with a tea towel. I find the ones with ridges work well to remove any bad stuff on the skin.

Hope this throws a little light!
Reply:I don't Know maybe because they ship a certain amount

and that's why there are numbers on the stickers. and that might be the reason there are stickers on fruit
Reply:Nobody really needs the peel anyway. So yea.. it's mostly of the brand..

Now.. I said nobody really needs the peel anyway.. but people eat it by apples.

Get a knife and scrape the blade against the peel of the apple.

You'll see white stuff on the blade. It's wax.. so the apple is shiny..

The peel won't really be affected cuz of the sticker since there's wax.. but yea..
Reply:they are made for special people thats wy they put "bananas'' on the spherical red fruit