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To: Les H who wrote (165718)	5/14/2002 12:10:08 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) of 436258

Department Store Displays $1,000 Melons May 14, 2002 9:25 am EST TOKYO (Reuters) - Years of falling consumer prices in Japan have hit everything from houses to hamburgers -- but not, it seems, the country's famously inflated melon market. The Mitsukoshi department store in the northern city of Sapporo on Tuesday bought the first two locally grown melons of the season for 150,000 yen ($1,174) apiece. They now take pride of place in the store's fruit department, but there is little chance of a customer shelling out the asking price for the luxury orange-fleshed Yubari King melons, complete with special gift packaging. "That price takes away your appetite," Kyodo news agency reported one 61-year-old shopper as saying. Mitsukoshi is already prepared for the worst. "We are running an auction in the store. If they don't sell at the asking price by May 15, we will sell them to whoever offers the most," said a spokeswoman for the store. Exquisitely gift-wrapped fruit commands a premium price in Japan, whereas melons in ordinary supermarkets generally sell for a more down to earth price of about 500 yen ($3.90).

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