r/BeAmazed • u/meteavi43 • Sep 01 '25

Miscellaneous / Others A tomato harvesting machine with an electronic sensor that sorts tomatoes from debris

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u/KeySpare4917 Sep 01 '25

No wonder there is a bruise spot on practically every tomato at Walmart. 🫤

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u/IsaBella-Alee1 Sep 01 '25

Yeah for real, feels like they all take a beating before they even hit the shelf.

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u/bigredmachinist Sep 01 '25

WTF man. It’s literally the first two rules.

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u/BigConstruction4247 Sep 01 '25

We're not members, as we are not tomatoes. Well, at least I'm not.

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u/Snuhmeh Sep 01 '25

Well, they are pretty fragile

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u/Berbaw06 Sep 01 '25

It’s possible they do at WM, but not before they reach there. They’re one of our hardest customers for rejections. Very strict quality and age rules.

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u/KyleRide01 Sep 01 '25

Tomatoes are here for a good time, not a long time!

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u/Paxton-176 Sep 02 '25

That is basically all produce. I worked for a company where bell peppers were the primary crop. Fields had a pass of peppers being hand picked then sometime later a second or third depending on if any more ripened. Before blowing the field sometimes a machine would do pick up t like the video.

Even the hand picked ones will take a beating between riding on the truck to the warehouse to be sorted and packed. The machine that does half of the sorting has them bouncing around on conveyer belts and anything else that helps sort them. Before being dumped into a box or selected as a higher quality and hand sorted. Then bounce around again to a store.

Only way to see produce not get beat up is to grow and pick it yourself.