Why Chinese influencers are flocking to a Costco in Shanghai (and no, it's not for the discounts)

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A girl wearing a green varsity jacket sits with her feet up inside a shopping cart in an empty parking lot; a group of friends in sunglasses hold up pizzas and cokes; another girl in a baseball cap poses on a lawn at dusk, looking back at her long shadow on the grass.

source https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/china/chinese-influencers-costco-mic-intl-hnk/index.html

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