Photo by Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC
Perhaps the world’s most adorable health product mascots, the Sato Pharmaceutical Co. elephants. Born in Japan, these two live in the grocery store at the Mitsuwa Marketplace shopping center in Torrance, where I recently saw a small child pose for a photo with them. Mainstream chain drugstores should carry this brand, if only for the elephants.
Photo by Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC
Elephant Santa and energy supplements, December 28, 2010
A cuddly Christmas pachyderm helps move product during a post-holiday sale at the Mitsuwa Marketplace, the Japanese shopping emporium on Western Avenue.
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