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HK Wellcome ad

An ad for Wellcome (one of the big supermarket chains in Hong Kong) based on the premise that if the little daughter saves enough, one dollar at a time, that she can buy back some of her father’s time spent at work. See the ad on Youtube. ...full story at Virtual China

from Virtual China on Wed, Aug 20 2008

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