In German stores, some products stand upside down. “This is no accident or a mess, but a new trend,” explains the daily “Frankfurter Rundschau”. He adds that it is about promoting European goods instead of those from the USA.
Pictures from German stores appeared in social media, which show, among others, inverted packaging of Heinz bean and Philadelphia cheese. The title of the entry was: “People in my part of the city caught what it was about.”
Trend in German stores
As the Frankfurter Rundschau “explained, the mentioned view is not the result of a joke or mess, but the element of the” Buy From Eu “campaign (” Buy from the EU “). “On the Reddit portal, the group associated with this idea already has over 180,000 people. It is a community that wants to promote things produced in Europe,” the newspaper pointed out.
“Germans in stores turn the products upside down or belong to the USA. It is better not to remind what happened when they pointed out what they were buying last time” – the editor -in -chief of the editor -in -chief of the press agency Radio Debata Aleksander Fedorska wrote in social media.
The tabloid “Berliner Kurier”, in turn, pointed out that “products in stores are not destroyed”, and turning cans and other products is rather “a form of silent protest”.
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“Frankfurter Rundschau”, “Berliner Kurier”
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