To celebrate this being his 125th film, producer Mario Cecchi Gori cast every available performer from his previous 124 films (many were uncredited.)
Overseer Corrado Minozzi is played by Massimo Boldi. In the same year, another unrelated character called Corrado Minozzi appeared in Scuola di ladri (1986) played by Corrado Monteforte. Massimo Boldi also starred in that movie, together with other two actors from Grandi magazzini: Paolo Villaggio and Lino Banfi.
David Zed (David Traylor) is given a consultant credit in this film for helping Paolo Villaggio do a parody of the ZED Robot character he made popular on Italian TV. Later known as Mr. Zed, Mr. Traylor went on to do three other TV series with this character as well as personal appearances on the Tonight show, MTV, BBC, NHK and CNN. His appearances in the TV show Pronto, Raffaella? on Italian channel Raiuno in mid 1980s impressed Paolo Villaggio so much that he decided to ask the directors Castellano and Pipolo to change his and Gigi Reder's roles from thiefs as initially planned to scammers trying to sell the robot (played by same Villaggio) to the department store marketing director Dr. Tucci (Ugo Bologna).
The locations for the department store are actually two different stores: the Okay of Viterbo and the Euromercato of Paderno Dugnano near Milan (as of 2020 rebranded as Carrefour).
The original version (for cinemas and home video) has a length of 110 minutes, but a 146 minutes version for television was also released and premiered in October 1988 on Canale 5. The longer version includes parts which were originally cut from the final movie after that producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori constantly added new actors in the movie.