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Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Fans Cause Online Banana Shortage At Walmart
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Where to begin? Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave came out this week. It’s a B-tier Nintendo franchise with a ride-or-die fanbase. It’s also the first entry in the strategy RPG series on Switch 2, and the console’s first big exclusive of the fall season. Here’s why that caused a run on bananas at Walmart.
Wario64 is a social media power user who functions like the wire service for gaming and gaming-adjacent deals. In addition to sharing up-to-the-minute news, he shares links to discounts. That is how the account makes money. Last night, the account shared an ongoing Walmart promotion that gives $10 off online pickup or delivery orders, pointing out that fans could use it to get almost 15 percent off the $70 digital version of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave.
The savings code doesn’t always work, however, so Wario64 encouraged people to use a workaround. “If code doesn’t work, try switching to pickup. If that doesn’t work, add a banana (weirdly this worked for me with FAST30),” he wrote. He also shared the link to the Walmart online store’s listing for single bananas.
It fucking worked😭✌️ https://t.co/KZovmK86wO pic.twitter.com/9gHVS2SppY
— An Average Gamer – N (@AnAverageGamerX) September 17, 2026
ay W deal https://t.co/ieBAajtzdC pic.twitter.com/38hGxe9Nk2
Wario64 forced a banana shortage at Walmart https://t.co/zRLd99eZd4 pic.twitter.com/oUlfklDOSL
— An Average Gamer – N (@AnAverageGamerX) September 18, 2026
And Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave players did exactly that. We know because some of them shared pictures of the games they’d purchased, next to the accompanying bananas. While it’s impossible to say how many people actually followed through with the banana cheat code, it is true that if you visit Walmart’s banana page right now, it says the item is currently out of stock, at least for online shipping.