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Major alterations in Chinese shopping habits

(ecns.cn/chinadaily.com.cn) Update:2016-11-30

The photo shows housewives from 1966 buying pork at a store in Shanghai. In the 1960s, shopping was for buying necessities with limited quota tickets. Apart from renminbi, a rice ticket was the most popular currency until it was made obsolete in 1993. [Photo/ecns.cn]