There’s a new booming black market trade in Hong Kong. Forget about iPhone 6s and Apple Watches – it’s biscuits we’re all wetting ourselves for now, apparently.
CNN reports that a counterfeit trade in Jenny’s cookies, also known as “little bear cookies” (there’s a bear on the tin), has sprung up in Hong Kong thanks to a constant stream of biscuit-mad munchers queuing round the block outside the tiny shop in Tsim Sha Tsui.
At just HK9 for a small tin they’re a real bargain, and can reportedly be sold on for a 70 percent markup… cue grumbles about parallel trading.
According to the report, “old ladies hold up paper signs advertising the cookies for sale” just yards away from the shop – something Jenny’s tries to discourage.
Seriously though, Jenny, if Apple can’t keep people from reselling their stuff right outside their shops, you and your little baker buddies don’t stand much of a chance. No offence.
The shop is also bearing signs warning cookie monsters not to buy “fake” recreations that our apparently being churned out my rival bakers.
That’s just the way the cookie crumbles, Jenny.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
