JAPAN: Department store pays over £1,600 for pair of melons
A Japanese department store has parted with ¥300,000 (US$2,338) for the first two locally grown melons of the season. Based in Sapporo, the store bid for the fruit at a local market, explaining that it hoped to send the message out to potential shoppers that it deals with only the best quality fruit and vegetables.
Based in Sapporo, the store bid for the fruit at a local market, explaining that it hoped to send the message out to potential shoppers that it deals with only the best quality fruit and vegetables.
It paid ¥150,000 each for the melons, saying that they are imbibed with “happiness and luck”, being the first grown.
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