The appliance of purchase
29 June 2004. Inspired by .
Here's an oddity, via Lorna's Shorts: New shop opens for Ecuadorian immigrants to send electric appliances to people back home. According to El Periodico here (Spanish only, pic), the shop doesn't sell for you to take things home. Instead, the Ecuadorian community (33,000 and growing - the largest immigration subgroup arriving in the city last year) go in, pay and then the fridge/washing machine/whatever gets sent to their relatives back home. Some are starting 6 month payment plans now, so that the appliance arrives as a Christmas present. Voltages are only set for Central/South America. The products arrive 48 hours after payment is completed. Anyone want to set up a WH Smiths for that in the UK to send me some magazines?