Mystery parcel shop opens in Cork as customers hunt iPhones and tech bargains

Cork customers were out in force on Tuesday morning in the hope of finding iPhones, tablets, and designer goods for bargain prices — though some instead found themselves unwrapping tablecloths and phone cases.

That’s the gamble in store at the county’s first pop-up mystery package shop in Douglas Court shopping centre. French start-up firm King Colis opened at 10am to an awaiting queue that snaked through the centre.

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