Bulls-Eye

When traveling abroad, I frequently find myself making comparisons between things in the foreign country and life back at home.  In particular, whenever I walk into a new store, I begin trying to figure out which store at home it most closely resembles.  In New Zealand, The Warehouse is K Mart.  Dick Smith is Radio Shack.  Mitre 10 is Meynards.  In Finland, S Market is Cub Foods.  Intersport is REI.  Gigantti is Best Buy.  And so on.

Well, this past week, I discovered one more store to add to this list.  Tokmanni is the Target of Finland.  With its bulls-eye logo and red color scheme, I would not be surprised if the original creators had previously visited an American Target (or vice versa).  Walking in, I was met with large signs hanging from the ceiling that read "Women," "Men," "Food," etc. (or course, in Finnish though).  Even the store names both start with the letter T!