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Silly, Funny & Creative Chinese Supermarket Product Displays

by on Friday, August 27, 2010 46 comments

An impressive Lays potato chip supermarket display in China.

From Mop:

Supermarket employees so lonely [bored] their balls hurt (#‵′)凸

Funny supermarket product displays in China.

Silly supermarket product displays in China.

Funny Chinese supermarket product display.

Silly Chinese supermarket product display.

Bored supermarket employees create funny product displays in China.

Bored supermarket employees create silly product displays in China.

A funny supermarket product display that looks like Disney Pixar's Wall-E character.

Chinese supermarket employees create funny product displays.

Chinese supermarket employees create silly product displays.

Chinese supermarket employees create silly product displays.

An incredible Super Mario supermarket product display made from cases of Pepsi, Crush, Sierra Mist, Mugs, Lipton's, etc.

An amusing supermarket product display for blue slippers that looks like the 2010 Shanghai World Expo mascot, Haibao.

Comments from Mop:

筱夕_h:

Absolutely genius…

绿紫苏饭团:

Our country has awesome people too!!!

bibiibib:

The Haibao and Super Mario are pretty good.

尽量精益求精:

Worked in supermarkets before, so no really surprised/impressed anymore.

鸣枫舞墨:

China doesn’t lack human talent, it just doesn’t know how to use human talent.

Comments from NetEase:

huangyuwen19:

Haha, what supermarket is this, I’d like to go there to shop.

首席评论员:

I will pay 10,000 yuan per month to hire this salesperson.

sbb791103:

Hehe. This salesperson is really creative.

Hope to see even more of your creations in the future.

lzhg1019:

True art originates from the masses!

说笑:

I thought [these displays] were from [supermarkets] abroad, [but I] see Chinese…

Actually, I think the Wall-E and Super Mario displays are from outside China.

Creative talent in the most unexpected places. chinaSMACK personals.

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  1. Chinese Netizen
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    Finally…we get creative!

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  2. meh
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    Thought it a bit Corn-E

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  3. Rick in China
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    The first few are pretty lame.

    The last couple are awesome, though.

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  4. Ryan
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    I saw a display that set up boxes in the shape of the China pavillion from the Shanghai Expo. That was pretty good, but these take the cake!

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  5. 250
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 6:13 pm

    Is it me or does the manaquin with the metal lids/bowls/whisks on it (4th from bottom) look spookily real? Something about that face just isn’t right.

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  6. Beijinger
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 6:41 pm

    The second one is Carrefour in Beijing’s Zhonguancun store. I’ve seen it a couple of times.

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  7. ninjaboy
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 9:03 pm

    Chinese people aren’t this creative. Do these supermarkets have Japanese employees?
    In any case, these displays are totally awesome!

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    • Chunghwa
      Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 3:13 pm

      >implying that Japanese people would want to go to China to work in a supermarket

      oh you.

      inb4 shitstorm

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    • bobiscool
      Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 4:15 am

      To you and all other idiots who keep spewing the false argument that chinese people are not creative, please go educate yourselves.

      It has been scientifically shown that IQ and creativity has stron correlation until 120. The average IQ of Chinese people and other East asians is 107. Compare this to Europeans at 102, Americans at 100, Africans at 80…

      It seems clear that East asians in general, including the Chinese people are not lacking in creativity. The reason why people believe that the Chinese lack in creativity… well the reason besides simple bandwagonishm is because of the lack of cultural exports from China. Indeed, China is one of the only communist countries left, and in competition with the US, a superpower. It is very hard for China to export their culture unlike Korea and Japan, which are under the US sphere of influence.

      The fact is, Chinese people do not lack in creativity, they simply lack a means to show it to ignorant Westerners. Most people on this site are Americans, and clearly would watch American media, entertainment and the likes. If you watch American entertainment, obviously you would know about it. However, as you do not watch Chinese shows, you don’t know about it.

      Stop tryin to comfort yourselves with such a subjective thing. “Chinese people are uncreative”. It’s hard to measure creativity, but certainly Chinese people, as well as other East Asians in general (and Jews) dominate in intelligence. Elite Universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford are filled with Asians, and would have more if not for AA. Even though only 5% of America is asian, Berkeley has over 40% asians.

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      • snicker
        Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 6:39 pm

        I would love to watch the great TV shows in China, but all I can find are old Japanese war reruns, stupid-assed host-and-audience-and-cart-and-pony shows, singing competitions and state news. Oh, and laughing at people getting injured. It never fails.

        Or how about that very creative western brand bashing in 798? Or the very creative western brand copies in zhongguan cun? How about the “Bicycle and Pedestrian friendly Beijing by 2020″? now THAT’S creative. work of fiction…and other urban planning masterpieces that are being carbon copied across the country?

        As for IQ tests…I never fared too badly on them, but give me a break, they have huge cultural and language biases, as do all standardized tests. You’re talking about Africans as though they are poor slob retards and asians as though they are all intellectual superwizzes…but in fact, if conditions (including culturally relevant content) were the same, you’d probably come out with vastly different results that what you have listed here, uncited.

        Universities such as Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, etc. are global universities, even though they are located in the US. Given that more than 60% of the world’s population is asian (http://esa.un.org/unpp), 40% at Stanford is not, therefore, particularly impressive (especially given that it is geographically the closest US global university to asia). Especially given the lack of good universities in Asia. (I make this point to counter your argument that having these universities full of asians means that asians are somehow more intelligent).

        Well, the news, and methods of getting business licenses and travel visas can be pretty creative sometimes…now where did I put my memory hole again?

        After all that, what’s my point? Intelligence and creativity are not necessarily linked, neither are easy to measure, and indeed, every culture will have its own brand of creativity and intelligence. Some of those innovations will escape from their own cultures and become transcendent, but most of them won’t, and it won’t really matter where the creator comes from. The fact is that innovation and creativity will come from an open and creative environment, where people are encouraged to chase their dream, even if they are different. It seems people from different cultures perfrom equally well under these conditions. It doesn’t have much to do with Chinese people being uncreative, but in fact the cultural-social-political system in which they exist which fails to foster and promote real innovation.

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  8. shenmeniao
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 9:24 pm

    this is silly and funny, yet creative also

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  9. eattot
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:26 pm

    super mario, hahaha!
    how i loved it!

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  10. draco
    Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 2:12 am

    who would grab a slipper in the last picture???

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  11. Jessica
    Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 4:01 am

    I quite my pr job and now I see why. ;

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  12. bscalled
    Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 8:26 am

    That’s not “Mug Rootbeer” – that’s “Hug Rootbeer”

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  13. S from Snitterfield
    Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 11:00 am

    After spending 4 and a half weeks in China, I can definitely say that the Chinese are in general very creative! The art & craft work they are taught in school certainly reflected well in the displays as shown.

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  14. codamoda
    Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 11:10 am

    I have a feeling that the Mario display case pic is not from China. Seen it and others floating around on forums…

    I don’t even think that the 8-bit Mario is even a fixture in Chinese pop culture.

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  15. Chris
    Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    haha, that first picture (the ones with the crisp packets) – that makes me laugh because I can see in there the ‘Blueberry’, ‘Cucumber’ and ‘Lemon Tea’ flavoured crisps! You need some kind of f*cked up crazy display to sell crisps that taste that bad…

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  16. Chinese Netizen
    Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 5:06 am

    OH absolutely alain!! For sure ANYTHING is better than America. What are you? A self important Frog from Paree or a sub-frog from French Canada? Maybe a Belgian? EVERYTHING is better in Europe, right?

    But I digress….Yes, I absolutely agree… all displays everywhere are better than anything done for marketing, display and advertising in America…

    Americans…hah!!! Laughingstock when it comes to supermarket displays!!

    You are tooooo cool, alain…

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  17. Dildo Baggins
    Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 11:10 am

    Ya, Mario is definitely not in a Chinese supermarket. I do like the blue Gumby!

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  18. Green Tease
    Monday, August 30, 2010 at 12:11 am

    Too great. What imagintation!!!

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  19. Ellie Clinton Issa
    Monday, August 30, 2010 at 12:59 am

    Wow!!!! The displays are fantastic…..

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  20. @@@
    Monday, August 30, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    “please don’t touch”

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  21. fireworks
    Monday, August 30, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    bored shitless workers.

    Kitchen utensil man should win fashion award of the year.

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  22. chiwi
    Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 11:54 am

    Obviously not every picture was taken from China, or from same market. It is a funny post and that is it. Please do not relate this joke to creativity of the nation or so like, which is nonsense.

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  23. joshua
    Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 12:03 pm

    I love this. I wish Canadian supermarkets did this.

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  24. spiral
    Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    I don’t think China has Mist or Crush. And probably doesn’t have those kind of soda can boxes. I don’t think the Mario was done in China.

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  25. Shanghai Halfpat
    Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    Uber cool!

    Well, to compensate for their lack of service standards and attitudes, they do provide entertainment now and then.

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  26. Haski
    Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 4:12 am

    I will pay 2000€ per week to hire this saleperson.

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  27. JM
    Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 11:16 pm

    If only all Chinese stores were this great…

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  28. melissa
    Sunday, November 28, 2010 at 5:45 am

    wow, thats so cool

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  29. narsfweasels
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 5:22 pm

    Shanghai. HongMei Lu. Faith’s Diner.

    Burger. Popcorn. Root Beer. Good Times.

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  30. Chika
    Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 12:27 am

    Yeah, Jones in China? I would have killed to have him removed out of China.

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  31. Alikese
    Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 12:36 am

    I remember those good old days, sitting back on my balcony with a pack of HuangHeLou cigarettes, some dried prunes and mixing myself a diet Sierra Mist and Baijiu on the rocks.

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  32. YouLanDan
    Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 7:13 am

    ROFL hahahah… I have nothing more to add to this Al (spent 4+yrs there myself), besides saying “GOOD ONE!” Zing!

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