> With one eye on her baby in a pushchair, Minae Kamata operates an arcade machine in a Tokyo suburb, manipulating a claw to grab not a stuffed toy but a pack of toilet paper.>As inflation weighs on Japanese households, huge arcades on the outskirts of major cities are installing claw machines filled with eggs, rice, laundry detergent and other necessities.>The "shop-and-play destinations" merge essential buying with entertainment so that families do not feel a choice between bringing home the basics and treating themselves to a day out.>Kamata, a 25-year-old housewife, told AFP she won her prize after only two tries, at 100 yen ($0.64) per attempt.>"If you're a bit lucky, it's the same as buying at a discount," she told AFP.>The trend is a response to Japan's prolonged wave of inflation, with prices having outpaced wage growth for years.>"Spending on food and everyday products has been continuously declining for five years because these have become targets for budget cuts," said Naoko Kuga, a consumer behaviour specialist at the NLI Research Institute. So "retailers are trying to make purchasing fun to encourage buying" and ease a sense of guilt, she added.https://www.afp.com/en/grabbing-bargain-japans-claw-machines-cash-inflation
I claw pussy
>>62815878Yeah cash in on the squidwards, good plan
>I had kids while being financially insecure, now this is everyone else's problemcome on, dawg. Do these people never learn?
>>62815928The story of every communist and drug abuser in history.
>>62815928That is how people always made kids and how population grew in the first place. Every country explicitly wants you to fuck like rabbits regardless of your financial situation. Your pushback against is how we get immigration flood, new citizens must happen and if you won't make them the old way you will be replaced by hordes that will, and if they don't make it happen they will also be replaced by hordes that will.
