I arrived in Singapore during the Great Singapore Sale, or GSS. It’s advertised everywhere. It’s the one time of year when [nearly] every store, restaurant, service provider, etc offers big discounts for shoppers.<\/p>\n
In Plaza Singapura, the mall next to where I work, they’ve been having different vendors taking-over the concourse area on the first floor every week.<\/p>\n
This week it’s one of their anchors, Carrefour (the French hypermart chain). They have all sorts of stuff – most of which you can also get inside the Carrefour store, but of course it’s more fun to browse out in the open.<\/p>\n
In the refrigerated container area I saw something I never thought I’d see in my life. They had fruit for sale.<\/p>\n
Specifically, they had fruit from Japan for sale. One of them was S$199. That’s about $125 US.<\/p>\n
It’s a watermelon.<\/p>\n
Yep.<\/p>\n
That summer stand-by: the watermelon.<\/p>\n
Course, these are square and grown in Japan, and stack nicely.<\/p>\n
But really? Two hundred dollars for a watermelon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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