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What does a grocery store look like without Greek olives, Spanish tomatoes and frozen goods from who-knows-where?
You’re about to find out.
To emphasize the importance of global diversity in a context everyone can understand, German supermarket Edeka made a surprising decision: It emptied its Hamburg location of all foreign-made products.
For shoppers wandering around confused, signs featured messages like, “So empty is a shelf without foreigners,” “This shelf is quite boring without variety,” “Our range now knows borders,” and, “We will be poorer without diversity.”
People mostly believe what their range of experience permits.
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