{"id":13261,"date":"2026-05-13T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:08:25","slug":"the-ordinary-would-like-to-know-if-you-want-to-buy-a-175-90-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13261","title":{"rendered":"The Ordinary Would Like To Know If You Want To Buy a $175.90 Banana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Would you buy an avocado for $305.90? How about a $175.90 banana? No? Well, perhaps I can interest you in an eggplant for $295.90?<\/p>\n<p>While I might have led you to believe that this is yet another diatribe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/05\/13\/trump-inflation-economy-polls-biden\">inflation<\/a>, it\u2019s in fact skincare brand The Ordinary\u2019s latest pop-up shop\u2014The Markup March\u00e9. Developed alongside\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommon.studio\/\">Uncommon Creative Studio<\/a>, the brand\u2019s latest series of activations looks an awful lot like a fancy supermarket. The catch? The beauty industry\u2019s price-hiking tactics are on full display. With a series of events in Toronto, London, S\u00e3o Paulo, Mexico City, and Melbourne, the brand has transformed produce and everyday household staples into wildly overpriced and unaffordable luxury items (you know, sort of like what Fish Wife did to sardines).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/the-ordinary-would-like-to-know-if-you-want-to-buy-a-175-90-banana\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you buy an avocado for $305.90? How about a $175.90 banana? No? Well, perhaps I can interest you in an eggplant for $295.90? While I might have led you to believe that this is yet another diatribe on\u00a0inflation, it\u2019s in fact skincare brand The Ordinary\u2019s latest pop-up shop\u2014The Markup March\u00e9. Developed alongside\u00a0Uncommon Creative Studio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[6086,6087,4976,6088,1209,2951,5999,6089,713,3222,1619,6090,6091,3323,4050,6092,6093,6094,6095,6096],"class_list":["post-13261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-affordable-beauty","tag-beauty-industry-satire","tag-beauty-industry-trends","tag-brand-transparency","tag-consumer-behavior","tag-dieline","tag-guerilla-marketing","tag-london-pop-up","tag-luxury-packaging","tag-marketing-campaign","tag-package-design","tag-pop-up-shop","tag-retail-experience","tag-skincare-branding","tag-sustainable-design","tag-the-markup-marche","tag-the-ordinary","tag-the-ordinary-skincare","tag-toronto-pop-up","tag-uncommon-creative-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}