The happy holiday horde is more than willing to put up with the crowds, noise, and street-market-like hawking for a chance to snatch up a real bargain. "Limited time only," blares the loudspeaker. "Just $ 299 in the toy department," it assures us for the third time in the last ten minutes. But is it really the buying frenzy it seems?
果然，折扣期間百貨公司人潮洶湧，輕柔的音樂聽不到了，傳入耳中的是嘈雜人聲，和每三分鐘一次、令人血脈賁張的「催買令」；各專櫃先生、小姐高喊的「限時搶購」、「每件二百九十九元」也不絕於耳，令人恍如置身攤販雲集的市場。