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.
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.
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.
In the refrigerated container area I saw something I never thought I’d see in my life. They had fruit for sale.
Specifically, they had fruit from Japan for sale. One of them was S$199. That’s about $125 US.
It’s a watermelon.
Yep.
That summer stand-by: the watermelon.
Course, these are square and grown in Japan, and stack nicely.
But really? Two hundred dollars for a watermelon?