Robbing 'Em Blind
Labubu boo-hoo, and "monetizing" brick-and-mortar customers
A curious thing I’ve noticed about the whole Labubu fad1 and similar things is the rise of “blind boxes.” These are retail packages with one of a series of products in them, but you don’t know which one is in a given box. Furthermore, the probability of each figure, or of a subset of figures, is different: there are rare and common figures/plushies/charm…
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