These are some of the fake brands that can be found at a new shopping mall in Nanjing, China. Maybe you'll see Rnoald McDnoald there.
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Fake Brands Shopping Centre Set to Open in China
By Hannah Wood
Monday, January 1, 2009
China has confirmed itself as the 'king of counterfeiters' with the building of a new shopping centre dedicated to fake brands.
Some of the brand impostors at the mall in Nanjing, east of Shanghai, include a McDonalds look-a-like burger bar called McDnoald’s, a Starbucks-style coffee shop called Bucksstar Coffee, and a wannabe Pizza Hut called Pizza Huh.
City bosses are under pressure to ban the soon-to-be opened mall after pictures of the fake stores were leaked, causing uproar amongst angry consumers who feared they'd be ripped off.
"Not every shopper is brand conscious so a lot of people will walk into these stores thinking they are getting the real thing," said an angry shopper in a local newspaper.
"The whole idea of this mall is plain dishonest.
"Some fakes are done light-heartedly to be funny, but these stores look so much like the real thing people are going to feel cheated," the shopper added.
This may be the first ‘fakes only’ mall but copycat brands are rife around the world.
Source: Wood, Hannah. "Fake Brands Shopping Centre Set to Open in China." Mirror UK. 1 Jan. 2009. <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/01/05/fake-brands-shoppi ng-centre-set-to-open-in-china-pictures-115875-21018152/>
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cptdrinian 54 months ago | reply
Love the "Mak Dak". That is just too funny.
“Caveman Chuck” Coker 54 months ago | reply
john4kc 54 months ago | reply
I can't find the article in my National Geographic now but if you Google "counterfeit cars china", there is plenty to look at!
Ks of W 54 months ago | reply
National Geographic has had a string of in depth articles over the past year or so on China, Russia, and Middle East. I have to read it in pieces because I get so damned depressed over their State of the Planet offerings.
omnivorous traveler 54 months ago | reply
Pizza Huh! That's rich.
I remember when I was in Guangzhou, there was another Nike-knockoff brand that put the swoosh backwards.
TheDamnМushroom 54 months ago | reply
This is perfect for Fake Products: Mutant Knockoffs :-D
Lars Trebing 54 months ago | reply
Removed from Altered Signs because I don’t see the modification. Please explain the change and resend?
“Caveman Chuck” Coker 54 months ago | reply
Ks of W 54 months ago | reply
Yeah. There is a very clear environmental bent with a soft anti-war push to the publication but the reporting is pretty in depth and, to me, worthwhile especially when they focus on what I feel are their "classic" attributes of delivering detailed essays from places far and not so far from me. I used to subscribe to Discover magazine but my opinion of what was a very scientifically valuable magazine to me soured shortly after Penthouse's founder, Bob Guccione's son, Bob Guccione Jr., bought it. Under Junior's vision, Discover was dumbed-down, crass language was dribbled in without contributing to the news story, tobacco ads were reinstated, astronomy was dropped to make room for supersize ego commentary, and bold anti-Bush rhetoric stuffed the pages. It took me two years to pull the plug on the magazine, in part because I boil over in even thinking of the Bush Administration's legacy and I love science but I did not plunk my money down for heavy handed propaganda. I don't see Bob's name on the inside cover anymore but little has changed anyway. Now, I rely on the Web and NPR for my science news and feel better educated for it. Please forgive the rant.....
nuestras fotografias 54 months ago | reply
just don't buy anything from there,haha will be hard to find a place without a chinnesse stuff
“Caveman Chuck” Coker 54 months ago | reply
vanedisabatino 54 months ago | reply
muy buen trabajo,gracias por su comentario!
“Caveman Chuck” Coker 54 months ago | reply
Sir Francis Canker Photography © 52 months ago | reply
Not that I support this, of course, but I tend to look at this as a great creativity exercise!
Cheers!
“Caveman Chuck” Coker 52 months ago | reply
therealshawnshawn 50 months ago | reply
Well, as artists, we should not support it. Why? Sure its funny, but when China starts copying your art and not paying copyright dues then we won't be laughing. Ever wonder why there's no Madonna or Sting in China... there's no copyright protection. That's why they mass produce Van Gough copies instead of new art.
ShawNshawN
懒家伙 42 months ago | reply
China's shame！
http://avanderbroek.tumblr.com/ 39 months ago | reply
Fantastic stuff!!!
http://avanderbroek.tumblr.com/ 39 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Nonexisting, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
http://avanderbroek.tumblr.com/ 39 months ago | reply
Hahaha, keeps me laughing. Thanks a lot for having added this great shot to
Nonexisting group, fake art at its best!