Today, those signs have been replaced by familiarcorporate logos that make precisely the opposite claim, promising usthe same goods arranged in the same way as they are in every otherplace.
Conversely, it is still within recent memory when every shopper in Ghana would go to the market with his or her own basket or bowl and would cover purchased groceries in them with a tea towel.
By contrast, "globalisation", that awkward term that covers the freer movement of goods, capital, people and ideas around the globe, has become the governing principle of commerce.
Instead, we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles, which now more than ever seem in ample supply: the critic of American materialism with a Southampton summer home.