Overview

• The discounter confirms a Germany-wide switch to crownless pineapples in all 2,130 stores by year-end.
• Leaves are removed at harvest, making each fruit about 25% smaller so more fit into crates and containers.
• Penny frames the change as a way to lower transport-related CO₂, with no independent emissions figures cited in the coverage.
• At origin, roughly 20% of crowns will serve as plantlets and about 80% will be used as fertilizer.
• Pineapples are priced at €1.99 per fruit, with Penny asserting unchanged quality and shelf-life, and the chain sells about 2.5 million annually.