Thanks to the local dialect, shoppers at a Chongqing supermarket got the bargain of a lifetime - 10 US lobsters for the price of four already discounted ones. Photo: China.news.com Thanks to the local dialect, shoppers at a Chongqing supermarket got the bargain of a lifetime - 10 US lobsters for the price of four already discounted ones. Photo: China.news.com
Thanks to the local dialect, shoppers at a Chongqing supermarket got the bargain of a lifetime - 10 US lobsters for the price of four already discounted ones. Photo: China.news.com

Lost in translation: The difference between ‘four’ and ‘ten’ is more than 10,000 yuan for Chinese supermarket manager

Manager from Guangdong confuses pronunciation of the two numbers in Chongqing dialect, giving shoppers a bargain of a lifetime

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Thanks to the local dialect, shoppers at a Chongqing supermarket got the bargain of a lifetime - 10 US lobsters for the price of four already discounted ones. Photo: China.news.com Thanks to the local dialect, shoppers at a Chongqing supermarket got the bargain of a lifetime - 10 US lobsters for the price of four already discounted ones. Photo: China.news.com
Thanks to the local dialect, shoppers at a Chongqing supermarket got the bargain of a lifetime - 10 US lobsters for the price of four already discounted ones. Photo: China.news.com
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