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FROM
CUBA
Single
shoes and other oddities of retail Socialism
HAVANA, Cuba, October 23 (www.cubanet.org)
- A sign in Havana's "Fin de Siglo"
store offers "Single shoes for sale,"
a singular example of the quirks of the
retail trade under Socialism.
The "Fin de Siglo" store, renowned
for its elegance before the advent of the
Revolution, now gives visitors the impression
they have entered a museum to decadence,
displaying as it does, on its shelves and
windows, disparate merchandise, some of
it used or obsolete, and never attractively.
Most recently, shoppers were puzzled by
a sale on gas masks, which lasted until
the military intervened, stopping the sale
and initiating an investigation into the
provenance of the merchandise.
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