@Grace,

That's also a great example. I totally forgot about that, although every time I go to 家乐福 I run into a couple of youghurt ladies by the dairy section with trays and obscenely loud microphones shouting to us to go and "了解一下" the product!

Sometimes there's even five or six ladies all with their own microphones advertising different products at about 100 decibels within a space of 10 square metres crowded with tons of customers. And they speak at bullet speed too. It's like a war zone!

@murrayjames,

no problem! :)