All-you-can-cram food shopping! (Video)

In this video recording, shoppers in Chiba Prefecture form huge lines to get into a supermarket that has a special sale: all-you-can-cram shopping. Shoppers pay a single amount for a plastic bag full of a certain product, but they must fill the bag themselves. It leads to some extreme bag-cramming techniques:

Part 1

Part 2

3 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - April 6, 2007 at 12:00 pm

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Luis

I cant believe the market owners would allow those girls to get away with such tactics in the second video. Those snack crackers weren’t even in the bag. Isn’t it all you can fit in the bag not all you can stack outside the bag?

http://www.japanprobe.com James

They confront a market owner about such behavior, and he just kind of shrugs and says its okay. I suppose a few extra pieces of food don’t really matter for the store.

http://myso-calledjapaneselife.blogspot.com/ Shari

The Japanese get a lot of credit for being refined and civilized then you see a video where you’ve got people crushing bread and donuts in order to cram them into a bag (rendering them quite undesirable to eat). This sort of rampant greed is really unattractive. I realize it’s not confined to Japan (watching after Christmas sales in the U.S. shows this very well) but it’s rather unappealing behavior in any culture and less expected in a society where purchasing large amounts of food or eating food that is poorly presented is uncommon.

All-you-can-cram food shopping! (Video)

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