…which was part of a pharmacy heavy shopping list for a friend in Shanghai. Along with 5 tubes of Aveeno skin cream for babies. My friend seems to follow the Chinese shopping trends. A few years back it was prestige products. Now, it’s sundries and things for everyday life you can get at a drugstore. The news was full of stories over CNY of mainlander tour groups visiting Tokyo to clean out the drugstores. Of course many of the items sought after in Tokyo or even in the states can be purchased in mainland China. However, Chinese consumers place more faith that they’ll have genuine products at a Matsumoto Kiyoshi or Walgreens or Costco than back home. Until that changes, guess I’ll be shopping for my friend.
