Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "Famous Brands Say Goodbye to China! Hu0026M, Zara, Gap…Withdraw From the Chinese Market" video.

This is way too fast. No wonder this kind of method, has moved and shifted into the Western markets as well. This is absolutely crazy !!! We used to have a 3 months turnover. And not a change,m every single week. This is absurd..... No wonder, these companies, cannot handle the market. Cos I wouldn't either. If I would do this. I would rather NOT discount... and then I would move the goods from location A, to B. And be done. If somebody has been to the city to see the items, and they did not buy. Then it is too bad. If I was these foreign companies, then I would NOT discount. I would give them a good reasonable level.... and let that be decided by the customer only. Cos you cannot do this and... This is way too wasteful.
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@cashkitty3472 : Cotton is a natural growing product in certain areas of the world only. And because they wanted more... so therefore... where China is concerned, they forced to grow extra, more than it would have grown naturally. Maybe it's time to grow silk again. That should be the way. Anyway, nothing wrong to have hand me downs, or to resell used clothes. Cos that is what most companies do now. They take the old clothes, and reuse them. Shred them, respin it into threads, and remake new clothes.
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They should just move to Shenzen or Canton. And be done with. If people want foreign brands, then travel to this area or this city. If they want and like certain brands, then travel or go to this city. Be done with. And then let the advertisements and things like that, be done, and broadcast it nationally. If people want it, then they need to travel or take time to travel to it. Done. Opening up like this and creating all of these kind of things, and yet, nobody does anything... just... It isn't working, is it ?
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It's because these employees doesn't know how to work the chinese market. And this is why their own salaries are also low too. I wouldn't necessarily give an actual discount. I wouldn't do that. Cos if you give one, and then another complains then. Normally, they should join a club, and then decide which one they like the best, and put those design forward, and sell those instead. Be done with. Cos this close time limit on the price difference is going to land them into hot waters. That's why. I would just put smaller selection out, and if they really want it. Then sell it. And not more. I would reduce the sizes, and then let them ask for the right sizes and things like that. And either they really want it, or that there is a small quantity... and then sell it. If it is finished, then let it be finished. This is too wasteful.. to "hope that they will buy"... Sorry... Just. Too spoilt for choice. In other countries, people don't do that, cos their entire customer population could only be around 100-200 people... but everything to China is like... an average 1000 to 2000 PER day !....
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@jamesh8862 : You are the motivation on their own soil... They won't buy your goods.. but then they would find another way to buy cheaper on their own.. using their own.... that is how it works. And if you buy their goods. Then it means that, then they use that money to buy YOUR land and YOUR houses... Play games? Then it is time for people to buy Chinese properties.. and then flip it. No.. buy it, and then rent it to other foreigners... and then take the yuans... away from China. That is how it should work out.
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We did !.... Lol...
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The same in the UK also. Shops and stores closed. Not just these brands. Many SME.. "mom and pop" stores closed. Cannot afford the electricities that runs the building. So there we go. Even families now, have to deal with reduced electricities as well... and many, have not very many jobs as well. Gig economy is high. Aka... those stupid app companies. This flattened the entire country.... And yeh, adults as well as children are now homeless... And I did not know that, we had an actual immigration issue of this level. This is not good.
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We used to get Turkey tee shirts... and also Morrocan tees as well. So...
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@Wolffur : This is fair. Cos they use those factories for those clothing manufacturing anyway. Since they are no longer buying, it is fair to get rid of those factories. And since Russia is now selling them petrol and oil. Then let their cities, be adjusted.. and the people, rebuild their cities. And decide on how much energy to run a city etc. And then let them finally fall back into place. Maybe it is time that they don't literally promote by meritocracies any more, but vote amongst themselves or something to go upwards instead...
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They have food. But just that they also sanctioned each other to buy and sell. So... This is why you would find all sorts of level of goods. From real, to semi diluted, to fake... etc etc. I am really beginning to get what is going on inside china.
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@TimeTraveller010 : I never said that, the distributed equally, they have enough, but they also internally conflict with one another and destroy it, in the name of power. And this is why.. things does not work out. They have money, but their assumption is that, it takes time to build it, in order to save people. And why wouldn't they think about flying food in and out of locations etc anyway instead? So... it is all of an excuse. And why shouldn't they consider naming all or most families etc? And draw back up those old family trees etc? When nobody is looking, often people cheat the system so... it ends up in that same location. Back to square one.
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No wonder UK has been gutted.... cos it retracted the Commonwealth path... and supposedly to buiild the silk road. But hey.. there are issues in Eastern Europe as well, cos they gutted the factories from the UK.. and moved them into Eastern Europe... So do these countries think that, the Chinese want East European goods instead? When they want to sell to them, and not to move them in..... Isn't that going to be a conflict there ? Well.... Noticed during the HK riots.. it was a lot of random Eastern Europeans in there protesting ? Which I thought was weird... They did not protest online and from their home they were literally inside HK and protested. I thought that was odd.... This is such a big PR disaster... Really badly done.
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UK is also locking its immigration doors as well... to illegal migrants. How many SE Asians.. try to enter the UK as a tourist and then try to stay there as well, but without the proper paperwork ? So.... This is not a good situation overall...
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And then they use those foreign reserve to do meddling in the global world... as well.. i.e. Do this to that country, and then sell arms to that country. That is, not even the militaries are doing, it is their own citizens selling via alibaba, like ARMS to other countries. So those citizens would get angry and use it for what they see online ! And THAT isn't regulated.. and their country's government doesn't even stop such things being sold either !!! Talk about being two sided to a situation... So basically, when we buy their goods, we give them money, to them kill us back as well.... I don't think this is about equality any more. i.e. Fairness for all. This is about being marginalised in the West.
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Am sure that they had this model in mind already anyway, and this is why they won't buy from stores... So... and Shein is going to swoop in, on those specific unwanted stocks.. and those individuals are going to go bankrupt. Well.. just watch what happens now. They aren't keeping themselves afloat.. by not buying as well... Therefore, reduced jobs for them. As well as reduced incomes for them. This is a knock on effect..
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Now I get why they do that. They raise the fees, cos the interest rates went up. So it is fluctuating... all of the time ? What they should have done is to have less buildings, and then increase or reduce rents... occasionally.... and write it down in black and in white. So that they could boom, and bust easily. And rotate, and have SOME stores that could be rotational and experimental etc. And some stores to always exist and lock them down. This would have been able to cushion the effects of them etc. Cos if they didn't bust the HK's financial model... and let it become an actual financial centre, and had an exchange that deal with currency exchanges.... Then they would not have this boom and bust cycle. But instead, of IB... what did they do? They made their entire country full of IBs !!! Rather than to have high street banks, separated from their IBs... They did not do that. In fact, that guy that went to jail.. when HK was trying to save what you are now seeing... That did not happen. This is why... when Trump tried to get them to do proper reporting to save themselves.. and to have PRC be an actual global player. They refused. And now, they want those "I am backing my country with a currency" deal... Well... this is like rolling back the world to before the world war. Just after the world war... They basically absorbed their currency inflation from the past. They devalued their currency... so this is why, they will find that things will get more and more and more expensive for themselves soon enough. So I don't even think that the Silk Road is going to be any cheaper. Cos the yuan is too strong actually.
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@johnr797 : Because they refused to support the stock market. So therefore, this is how they dealt with inflation. i.e. Build bit by bit.. etc etc. This is crazy, isn't it ? Rather than to do rentals.. and let the rental contracts increase or reduce, or to have a time limit on them etc... This is their way to deal with things instead.
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Well... this is why Europeans are not happy with China. Cos China is now taking in the petrol from Russia.. which should have been for Europe. And even Russia is not happy about that as well. So why should these companies still exist inside China to begin with ? This is NOT a good thing. Really not good.... Laffyette is a super high end shopping company.... Wow.... (It's really weird.. if they hired someone fromthe West to overlook the stores, and to keep a tight eye on things, then they would be accused of discrimination, but this kind of poor sales... techniques.. is just... Really bad. I wouldn't want to stay in this market either. Not really.) To think they spent so much money, to groom an actual entire sector of people to work in those stores as well.... Well..now nobody has a job. Retail just died.
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China made the entire world communistic... So yeh... the world's inequalities are almost 1 to 1. Nobody is rich. Nobody is poor. Everybody is the same. So yeh.. then go ahead and pay for food that costs around 1000 times more. That was what people paid in the past. Half a million yuan, for a stupid mobile phone from China, that was what I paid for in the 1990s... late 1990s... And now, to see the numerous properties bought by so many families. While families in Europe has to live in the cold, without fuel. I think Europeans are peeved off, imho !!!!! I know I am !!! "What is poor in China ?".... And that... "I don't want to pay for a 30 year mortgage ???!....."..... Germany had to pay their mortgages for around 100 years !!! Japan took around 1.5 generation to pay off for a house !!!! Even in the UK, a mortgage is around 30 to 25 years !!! Don't want to work ??? But buy around 100 house for a single family ?!!?!? Chi sin !!! I am fuming, I am.
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They are scared that some people will get them.. and those who doesn't get it.. would not get it... and then gets angry... So.. and this is why, now that people realises that everybody will get something. Then nobody buys the more expensive ones. So if they exit out. Then this is fine. Whereas across the world... many people buy different ones for different reasons. i.e. They will save up to buy an expensive present for weddings, or for anniversaries.. or whatever. They will still buy it. They don't buy it every day. If they reduce the number of their stores.. I think these companies will do a lot better. Just have 1 store in Beijing or something. (A 10 million city cannot afford to support ONE store ? I don't believe it.) If people buy it, then they will buy it. If not, then not. Don't open like 400 across China. Open just TEN !!! If they want it, they will want it. If they don't want it. Then they won't get it. Making it too accessible isn't going to do the brand anything. And if anybody is mean to them online, take them to court. Be done with. Fine them and make them apologise.
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@Eqium : You need to remember that before the financial crash, the globalisation of the entire world. Aka "flattened the global structure"... UK did buy in Indian cotton products for a very reasonable price point !!!! We are old, but not senile... Right now, the globe might feel that bit better, but everybody lost out ! It isn't sustainable NOW... when you have another 1.4 billion consumers from China alone. It was just 70 million of Brits... And even then, not everybody bought them.... It didn't take long... Just under 15 years for the PRC to come in and then disappear again....
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It's because they don't have the same capitalistic structure as the USA does... this is why, so many individuals would still haggle like they are the nearby village. This is what, some of the rural areas are like as well. So... It's not bad or good per se. It depends if they wanted to merge those regions together or not. In truth, they don't need it. Lots of people don't see the reason. Cos it costs more money. So...
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@silentwatcher1455 : And the entire globe has products made in China, do you want us to stop buying from you? Cos frankly, I paid around half a million yuan.. for a sodding mobile phone. When your currency used to be only a mere 1 new yuan... to be around 10 000 yuans. Otherwise, you would have been fighting and beaten to death by now. Who protected you guys from killing one another ? It is all about money, isn't it ??? WHO raised your currency to be high, so that you stop killing one another ? WHO did that ? Which chinese family that went abroad as labourer, did not exchange it back to money to bring back into chinese soil ? WHICH person.. collapsed those original banks, and robbed them of their money ? Auntie is old, but not senile... some things does not need to be said. In black and in white. It's funny.. even now.. North Korea still have cannibalism... And it was not that long ago... that even Tibet had actual cannibalism too. Or maybe they didn't. They believed in reincarnation, cos they burnt the body instead... and made them into porceilain... They didn't eat the bodies. And why wouldn't women have abortions, if you cannot have enough food to feed the kids ??? Why do things this way ?
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@silentwatcher1455 : During the lockdown.. and everybody knows that China had something to do with the virus.. Even so many countries still bought those PPE kits from China. All the countries, bought the masks from China as well. Even though it is MORE expensive, than the ones they produced from their own countries. They still bought it. And then the testing kits as well. I checked.. mine said "Fuijian".. the ones that people had to use... And yet, THIS was NOT enough to stop China signing a deal with Russia. China still went and supported Russia any way ? And then forced Russia to give China, the oil ? And now, Russia has been kicked out of the London's market. And the Europeans went into fuel poverty the last few winters. So yeh.... I don't think that Sweden is happy with you guys right now ! Shutting down some stores are good option. Cos frankly, EVERYBODY across the globe is not hitting fuel poverty. Cos you guys won't condemn the situation !!!! This time round, CHINA.. you are a bad bad BAD player internationally !!! You took the Russian side !!!!! You're NOT supposed to take their sides !!!
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@SpartanFarron : To be honest, it takes a lot to raise a society in general. And you have to believe in what you are doing as well ? For many of us that lives in europe... cos "everybody was involved".... nobody was left out.. So we were both taught by school and lived by experience, and this is how we trust things as they were. But for a society of around 1.4 billion people. Who do they trust? How do they trust? And there is a lot of scams overall as well ?? Anyway, they are not the only ones.. cos even in the UK... we are also building our way out of the situation too. Which is what they are doing also. Since the trades between nation has just gone... So... Which is a bad thing. There are some companies that are trying to reverse the fortune of that. i.e. Recycling old materials and reuse and rebuy and resell.
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That is because the citizens went and used their extra cash for properties. Everybody in Europe only buys one single house, and pay it off for the rest of their lives. Normally, it is AWAYS... foreigners who buys more than one. Cos people know that they have to have extra cash for other things. i.e. Food, clothes, school, work... transport. They count these things as well. This is why even clothing companies can list in the stock market. These citizens just don't believe that they would need to buy clothes. But why ??? If you don't buy and make that same money go back round, where do you think the money will come from ? You want more wages and salaries.. but you don't want to pay for it. Well... This is just... not balanced.
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@johndoh5182 : Yeh.. but a lot of the students, and people, ALWAYS buy them though, and then they flip them as well ! The reason why these high-end brands ended up inside the PRC is because, they were making copies.. and yet, when they ARE there.. They would NOT buy it ? Well.... to be fair.. these high end brands, have done their days of paying those rents. Cos.. I mean. There used to be small factories, good quality ones as well. And then, when China opens up... wah... everybody flocks to Europe and fight over those items ! Chi sin. And now, when they exists inside the major cities? How come, people don't buy it ? Even when they could afford it ??.... This is absurd. It is a 1.4 billion market.. you cannot please them all. And when you don't sell those items, to the people that wants it, they will berate you online. So it is always a case of lose-lose to these brands...
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It is a Swedish company as well... and citizens aren't happy with the Ukraine Russian war.. and a lot of Europeans are without energy and heating the past winter months. So yeh... this is why they are exiting. So... this is another one of those losses. That... "xinjiang thing"... is just... Well.. that is misleading... Cos... it is "media fighting media".. This is what it is. You bad mouth them. Then they bad mouth you. Let's see who loses etc. This is not a funny joke... it is PR disaster 101.
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It's becoming like that now everywhere.... And then in my town, Primark is popping up everywhere. Wrong sizes are common. And I didn't used to get it.. But I got jeans from primark in the past, all what I thought was the same sizing, but it actually ended up as actually wrong sizes, even for the supposed same size. They don't have QS control. Then I realised that, they are nothing but seconds. I still have those jeans. And they don't fit. Now I get my trousers from M&S. Who have always had actual right sizes.... For so many years, they kept to their size charts. I always go for the same size, and it always fit as well. (Plus it stretches, so it then means I can wear it for more than a year !) I now learnt my lesson. I do buy a bigger size.... It keeps longer and lasts longer too. Clothing is such a... issue all around.
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You mean Western consumers have NOT been paying you guys for your stupid mobile phones ? What was that? Half a million yuan for a mobile phone in 1998 ?? When the exchange rates were how much.... ??? 1 new yuan to 100 000 old yuan ?? .....And now, since you guys are rich.. and have so many things... You don't take side with Ukraine in the Russia and Ukraine war, and you expect Europe NOT to be peeved off ?!!?!?..... So now they lose their families, their children.. and their country just collapsed.
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It's really sad.. it means somebody has cheated them in life before.
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