I find it kind of fascinating that the stuff I regularly pick up for bento at the 100 yen shop is all $2.80, and the stuff that is sold for 980yen everywhere in Japan is $20 something on Jlist.
Even with the costs in transport and import... And even if they don`t buy from the producer and pay regular price in a store (pretty much unthinkable...) that is still an amazing markup. Wow.
I bought my son`s bento box
here, and my husband`s at a regular department store.
But I don`t count because I live in Japan.