When it came to a stop, it was completely inside the store, an incongruous setting of plastic merchandise: glittering silver disco globes hanging from the ceiling, diamond-shaped shimmering decorative panels, plastic globes of varying sizes in green, red, pink and copper, looking forlorn among the wreckage and the shards of broken glass.
In the weeks before Christmas, the number of ships increases and the containers full of plastic general merchandise from China and elsewhere proliferate, and the trucks take the general merchandise out into other parts of the country and it undersells local stores and businesses and no one knows what to do because, after all, it's cheaper.
He's trying to hold all of 19th-century Paris in his head -- its ideas, plastic art forms, merchandise, as well as its buildings and streets.
And his store will be expanded and stocked with more themed merchandise, like plastic elf ears for 17 New Zealand dollars.
Eager customers were pacing around the market on Friday when Mrs. Gil-Rosas arrived, hauling several plump plastic bags filled with merchandise.
Their innovation paved the way for high-tech gadgets such as full-color displays on cellular phones and plastic electronics for computerized merchandise tags.
For the first time, Universal has its must-buy equivalent of Disney's plastic mouse ears: exclusive Potter merchandise.
Upstairs is a messy kitchen, its purple walls lined with plastic containers filled with Sharon Jones band merchandise.
All of these products sat uncomfortably next to blue mouth sweets, plastic toy pirate sets, bootleg Spiderman merchandise, "Welcome to Blackpool!" watercolor sets, and "My First Makeup" kits for little girls.
All of these products sat uncomfortably next to blue mouth sweets, plastic toy pirate sets, bootleg Spiderman merchandise, "Welcome To Blackpool!" watercolor sets, and "My First Makeup" kits for little girls.
The merchandise comes in a white plastic shopping bag that says "Los Angeles County Department of Coroner".
