To buy something here, you have to wait in line, and then tell the clerk all the things you want. They grab the stuff and ring it up. Take a look at the left edge of the counter next to the scale. That's an abacus. Nearly every village store uses that to ring up the purchase. As they hand you stuff, they add it up on the abacus. The funny part is that if you buy something that has to be weighed, they pull out an electronic calculator to do the multiplication, and then add up the total using the abacus.
