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Sep 16 2009 7 Comments

(Un)controlled convenience?

Old style honesty box-based convenience stores/stalls may not maintain the same mindboggling amount of merchandise as their modern-day models, but providing one has only gone out to get some goya, they are still good.

Japanese honesty box

And also, for those that are far from honest, they are free.

Categorized: Food and Drink, Photography

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  1. Bong says

    9/16/2009 at 11:58 pm

    I love goya! Lovely image!!!

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  2. Yoli says

    9/17/2009 at 8:56 am

    Lovely image as usual.

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  3. Lee says

    9/17/2009 at 10:52 am

    Thanks!

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  4. Debs says

    9/17/2009 at 10:56 am

    They look like knobbly cucumbers! 🙂

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  5. The Envoy says

    9/20/2009 at 5:09 pm

    It’s odd how the Japanese trust others not to engage in petty theft.

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    • Lurker says

      7/22/2011 at 3:55 pm

      It’s far from unique to Japanese. I see it regularly, as Lissona says, at farm stands and the like in the eastern United States…

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  6. Lissona says

    11/9/2009 at 6:25 am

    In the small mid-west farm towns that dot my area of the United States its not uncommon to see stands with melons and vegetables with a simple unmanned box. Its always a nice reminder of the trust people once had for each other.

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