Only In Thailand?

[PST]

Took a trip to carefour today,and was amazed to find hundreds of bags of potato chips displayed in the middle of the escalators that take you up and down to 2nd floor.

Stupid or clever marketing/merchandising?,little girl and mom behind me and my girl was grabbing at every packet,and sure enough by the time they had reached the bottom,they had 2 packs in their hands.

PST.

[vanalli]

I think that's almost too ingenious for a Thai supermarket.

[Franzphuket]

Carrefour is a french company. Maybe they know it is best to sell off all those chips now before the people here learn about the health problems chips can make. (I do not think this is the reason really)

It is in the news in Europe about Foodwatch have found out about the high content of Acrylamid in Potato Chips. This is something in the news in Germany since years. Everything fried or baked at high temperatures contains a lot of acrylamid. The producers of the swedish style of Knacke Broed and other cookie producers already lowered the baking temperatures to get the acrylamid content down.

WHO sais a 20 kg child should eat not more than six chips of Pringle a day.

[petitechevre]

imo they just dont care about their thai chips...

they probably cost less than 1baht to make, they taste so atrocious compared to chips from western countries

so they spend 200 baht in chips to bring people in by making them crave actual good food

[ozymandious]

Saw chips or chrisps on display in the Singapore Carefour in the same manner months ago.

Just think it's a store marketing ploy.

really reaches out to the impulse buyers. more difficult to think twice and put it back ;-)