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Time-lapse video: How Japan handles long shopping lines
The efficiency and speed of the lines – particularly once they really start moving, around the 2:05 mark – might give today’s shoppers a touch of jealousy.
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Efficient shopping? All those shoppers, and not a single tree was sold.
keep the change on November 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM
Neat, but it’s a two-sided affair.
Transpo on November 23, 2012 at 5:40 PM
Moooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, just kidding. That was pretty cool. Never work here in the States, but cool nonetheless.
turfmann on November 23, 2012 at 5:43 PM
I assume it involves tentacles penetrating you in various orifices.
lorien1973 on November 23, 2012 at 5:44 PM
The scary thing about that is the number of people that interested in comics to go there twice a year.
cozmo on November 23, 2012 at 5:48 PM
The Japanese have two things that make that possible that Americans are sorely lacking… patience and respect.
CoffeeMan on November 23, 2012 at 6:11 PM
Not all Americans, just enough to get 0bama elected, and re-elected. Free stuff now and all that.
cozmo on November 23, 2012 at 6:12 PM
Waiting in long lines is standard for just about any event in Japan….like the Soba shop at lunchtime. They’re used to it. Don’t seem to mind it. Tokyo Disneland makes US Dinsey lines look like Pamplona.
Dongemaharu on November 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM
Yeah, all the WalMart Black Friday mob animalistic vile videos Drudge is linking to seem to have a distinct dearth of the Japanese. Fancy that.
Marcus on November 23, 2012 at 6:27 PM
Oh, please. In most of the world, there is no such thing as a “line.” Any place where something is being given out and some people will have to wait for it turns into a mob scene everywhere except the Anglosphere and Northern Europe. And apparently Japan.
HitNRun on November 23, 2012 at 6:54 PM
Yep, thread-winner.
It could be argued that it’s not just patience and respect, but submissiveness.
GWB on November 23, 2012 at 8:26 PM