free gift

Taipei retail outlets abound with all manner of incentives to lure shoppers into their establishments. Last week, Carrefour 家樂福 ran a special on Pampers: buy two enormous packages of Pampers and you get a free kiddie shopping cart with plastic veggies. Naturally we jumped on that offer. But how were we to get everything--Pampers, 2 bookbags, new toy, milk, and Binbin--home? We took a page from the living in Berkeley book: take the shopping cart home, too. Binbin thought it was great.