Shopping

         As a fan of Japanese media, culture, and items I’ve seen videos similar to the first one. With people going to shop and filming themselves shopping to show foreigners or fans what it looks like. I’m not overly surprised with how big they are as I’ve seen a decent amount in the videos that look like this. I’ve also noticed their shopping centers look similar to Korea’s shopping centers. I know the man in the first video mentions that because there isn’t many shopping centers similar to the one he is in, there tends to be big shopping centers like this in other places. 

        I really enjoy seeing such clean grocery stores compared to what we have in America. Every time that I go out for groceries it is very messy in the aisle and or they’re stocking. I haven’t seen employees with big boxes stocking when people are shopping in these videos.  I wonder if this is because they have set times to do outside of shopping hours or they do it when not many people are there. 

        It’s also interesting for me to see the contrast that a lot of these stores have in a mall scenario. For example, there was a kimono shop and knife shop that was super traditional compared to a lot of the more modern set ups. though I think I like the modern contrasts a lot better compared to how American malls work. I feel American Malls all have the same store in it, just with different names.