My eldest brother just retired after a life long career in a major grocery chain. I remember the days he was a produce guy and told us how they wore gloves to avoid spider bites. I do remember him saying something about how it got better after they started gassing the bananas or something like that. Apparently the spiders loved to get up inside the bunches of bananas and were a real bugger to see easily.

Maybe being this was a whole foods store their produce is organic so not treated for any kind of creepy crawlers?????