the (eight) dollar store

posted in: hong kong 2
dollarama!
dollarama!

…with its individually-wrapped plastic fruit. (why wrap it in plastic? to keep it sanitary?)

plastic apples
plastic apples

2 Responses

  1. gareth
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    I heard about shrink-wrapped bananas in Japan. They also have individual Styrofoam packaging for apples in some places.

  2. xanawu
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    well, they do like shrink-wrapping some fruit here too, but only in those western-style supermarkets.

    maybe in this case it’s like some sort of anti-theft measure… like if I pilfered that unwrapped apple on top there, they would think, “oh, she’s just carrying around a (real) apple in her pocket.”

    not that I would do such a thing. I’m an upstanding citizen you know.