I enjoy visiting personal care drugstores like Watsons, so when I found Mannings during my first…read moretrip to HK, I practically devoured it.
I actually visited several Mannings outlets there, but since I bought the most items in the HK International Airport, this outlet is what I chose to review. That, and because I forgot the locations of the other outlets.
For starters, they offer good discounts on selected personal care items, such as 70% off on luxury face creams or 50% off on hair care products. And these products aren't your throwaway brands; these are decent mid-range products that you can use every day.
Anyway, I was on the last leg of our vacation and still with a wad of HK$ to spend on myself. Sure I could save them, but I didn't fly all the way to HK and convert my cash just to decide to reconvert it to PHP at the last moment. I wanted to convert my cash into skincare: cash gets saved, my face gets wrinkled - where's the fun in that?
So I raided the store for various creams, serums, lip balms, and masks on sale, only to find out at the checkout counter that I was short by HK$50. I forgot that I blew a portion of my money on chocolates a few floors away. Glutton. Apologizing profusely, I prepared to withdraw my purchases, but the cashier dumped my items on the counter.
"Nonono!" she exclaimed in heavily accented English. "You take away what you don't need, yah? Then I count again for you. S'okay, yah?" I threw out the lip balms (who needs duck lips anyway, when ducks don't even have lips).
I was still short by HK$26.
Panicked, I fished out a bunch of loose extra coins from my purse. The cashier continued, "I count your coins for you, yah?" And luckily, I had enough to cover the rest of my purchases. No way was I letting go of that collagen serum because my eyebags won't let go of my face.
So all bills spent, with a few leftover coins rattling in my pocket, I happily trotted off to better skin and brokedom. Thanks, Mannings, for your helpful staff and cool products.
