business trip to HQ (9)

with the very tight schedule, finally found a time to shop at the a factory outlet last night. The difficulties for me are:
1. the factory outlet is not within walking distance
2. there is no bus, metro, mtr, minibus
3. i can call taxi, but they only speak german
4. thus i need someone to drive me there and drive me back
5. every day my meetings/workshop ends at 17:00 or 18:00, while the outlet closes at 19:00
6. i need a staff discount card from german counterparts to get staff discount, and i don't have a german counterpart

finally, with all these difficulties overcome, i had ~ an hour to shop there, and the things there are SOOOOOOOOOO expensive. The black lifestyle shoes and the yoga pants that I bought in HK could be found at the staff discount floor and they were more expensive that what i had paid... i originally planned to buy Y3 at the outlet since we don't have discount in HK even as staff, but the Y3 style there were just 'mai ng lok sou'... so were the a-porsche cross-over... or stella

and then i went to the public floor, where i could get 30% off the marked price... the outlet is so huge that i didn't have time to go through the whole floor, secondly, the price only goes to a more 'normal' level in my opinion with the staff discount, without the staff discount, they are just unacceptably expensive... even with the staff discount, i still find a lot of them expensive... :o