Some Chinese tourists make bulk purchases of rice cookers, heated bidet toilet seats and other goods at shops in the airport.

All duty free should be put inthe hull. I had my carry on pulled down and left in the aisle by a really rude...not Chinese but Japanese Obaaachan that put all her duty free up there. Wow...upsetting.

Depart without them.

As 655321, depart without them. Buy? Well, bye!

The flight delays are due to moving things around in the cabin and forcing people to check things in, not because they are not at the gate on time.

Why is duty free allowed to sell such large items that clearly won't fit in overhead bins? Insist its checked luaggage and sell it before check in. Passport and tickets needed before purchase is approved. I'm so sick of airlines allowing people with oversized bags on. Start being stricter and charging people. I find the locals shocking when it comes to their duty free airport omiyage. And their insistence that their crap is more important than those with normal carry on bags.

Either impose quantity restrictions or guide them to Post Office at the Airport.

Not much thinking going on wrt to the airport, the customers or the airlines, let the chaos continue, how stupid!!

Sorry, but no shop has the right to complain about people buying their products, and no place that rents to them has the right, either. Put restrictions on it, stop selling it, or shut up and cater to the customers.

@tmarie

Why is duty free allowed to sell such large items that clearly won't fit in overhead bins? Insist its checked luaggage and sell it before check in. Passport and tickets needed before purchase is approved. I'm so sick of airlines allowing people with oversized bags on. Start being stricter and charging people.

So true. Narita Airport recently put in an appliance store adjacent to its regular run-of-the-mill souvenir store (that mostly sells food items) and they were sells TONNES of rice cookers - some travellers with three stacked high on their trolleys! World's gone mad...

Can someone tell me why the Chinese cannot buy this made in Japan stuff in Ghina?

Yeah, honestly airport shopping has gone wonky anyway.

If there are such restrictions on how much I can go through the gate with, there should be similar restrictions on the inside as well. Why not simlpy allow 2 carry on bags per person, period? That way you can get into the airport, buy whatever you want...as long as it fits in one of your bags.

Furthermore, airports need to make some common sense checks. Airport shopping is there to give people something to do and (ideally, for the airport) provide revenue via overpriced trinkets/jewelry/snacks. There really is no reason to be selling appliances like rice cookers..or really anything of similar size. That is to say, people don't go into airports to shop for a rice cooker.

I feel the biggest thing that should be sold at an airport is about 2 liters in size (so, a bottle of alcohol or a stuffed bear, for example)

Why not simlpy allow 2 carry on bags per person, period? That way you can get into the airport, buy whatever you want...as long as it fits in one of your bags.

Because the planes are designed to have two bags per person in the overhead. If folks want to shop, they can shop at any of the hundreds of duty free shops IN Tokyo. And then have the bags checked. Many are abusing the system and hoping they get away with all the extra bags. And they are. And it needs to stop.

tmarie: That was kind of my point...

It should say "planes are NOT". Wish there was an edit fuction.