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Do you believe it when I say I have 120 bucks in my wallet and I don't have any dollar bills? Yep, I have 120 Nok worth of coins. -_-" The 20buck coin, 10 buck coin, 5 buck coin and 1 buck coin. The smallest denomination that I've seen is a 50cent coin but the size is our 5 cent coin.
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ICA (a supermarket here) was having 40% discount for their Pizzas last week and so the price is around $25+ after discount. Remember I said that my diet is pretty dependent on the sale promotion going on? That's right, between the 5 of us we bought around 28 boxes of pizza to last us through (hopefully) the next 4 months. But who knows, 一山还有一山高！ We just saw an advertisement stating that the same pizza is selling for $19.90 at another supermarket!!
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Supermarket here come in various sizes. Usually our Cold Storage, NTUC etc are of approx. the same size or maybe the occassional bigger ones but here the same supermarket can have small, medium and large. E.g there is a supermarket chain called ICA. There is the small version which is ICA Naer, the regular version which is ICA Supermarked and the big version which is ICA Maxi. So it is always a challenge to figure out where the promotion are as there might be a discount for pizza at ICA Supermarked but not at the other two.
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One interesting marketing strategy used by the shops here is 'Make themselves seen'. Not sure if it is a marketing strategy but I would think so. Every other street you will see the same shops. But they are not exactly selling the same thing is all the shops. Just in the train staion alone I can see more than 2 Narvesen (a pharmacy here).
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The wall sockets here do not have any on/off switch. You plug in, its on. You plug out, its off.