Sakhalin Island: front half of the grocery store in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 1998.

3 responses to “resourcefulness”

  1. I revisited this page tonight when pondering this 404 error from Skolkovo;

    Skolkovo 404 Waiting in Line

    and I am surprised to see 1600 visitors to this page with nary a comment.

  2. my brain is stubbornly not parsing out what is happening in the most above picture…. what is the going on??

    also, i see cookie crips on the top shelf of the store- that’s awesome!

  3. Grocery store in Eastern Russia, with scale and abacus at the checkout counter (the lady in red is the resourceful employee who gets it done in a tough economy in transition).

    Maybe that was the detail I should have provided to all the folks who came and left confused in the past…

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