Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Bootleg Mall

(The U-K Mirror)

China has confirmed itself as the "king of counterfeiters" with the building of a new shopping center dedicated to fake brands. Some of the brand impostors at the mall in Nanjing include a McDonald's 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.