Why Are Nintendo Switch 2 Fans Putting 20 Cent Bananas in Their Walmart Carts?

Nintendo Switch 2 owners are putting 20 cent bananas in their Walmart carts, because the fruit forces a grocery promo code to work on games. The code takes $10 off.

Walmart’s banana listing now shows as unavailable for online shipping. The order itself happens in the app, not in the produce aisle.

How a Grocery Promo Code Slipped Onto Nintendo Switch 2 Games

Nintendo fans are buying 20 cent bananas at Walmart to unlock promo codes that drop the price of Switch 2 games by up to $20The trick has become so popular that bananas are showing as out of stock at some Walmart locations pic.twitter.com/XyPL19PAGV

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Walmart runs a checkout code that takes $10 off pickup and delivery orders. However, it targets grocery baskets, not games.

Nintendo Switch fans found that Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave, Nintendo’s newest strategy game, qualified anyway. Therefore, one banana was enough to make the cart read as produce, and deal forums now call it the banana trick.

The code discounts the whole order, not one product. Any Nintendo Switch 2 game in the cart can therefore ride along, though reports so far name Fire Emblem.

The 20 cent bananas add almost nothing to the bill. Some buyers then deleted the fruit before paying, and the discount still held.

A download cannot sit in a pickup order, so the gap needs a physical copy. Fire Emblem ships as a full cartridge, though Nintendo also sells key cards that hold nothing but a download, and Sony will stop making game discs in 2028.

Why the Banana Trick Is Already Fading

Meanwhile, the listing became the bottleneck. Nintendo Switch 2 copies show low stock, and the code now fails more often.

The retailer has not said whether it capped the item to close the gap. Pickup and delivery orders do send a worker to the produce aisle, so some of these bananas are real. One piece of fruit per order hardly drains a store.

Nintendo stock gained 6% across the five sessions around the launch, a bounce back from the slide after the September game reveals. The shares still trade well below where they started the year.

Walmart, meanwhile, spooked traders in August with a rare sales miss.

Walmart has not commented publicly. Until it rewrites the rule, every Nintendo Switch 2 launch invites another run at the cheapest item in the cart.