[Newsbot]

Title: Chinese retailers hijack the Ikea experience
Category: Business
Posted By: saturn_656
Date: 2011-08-01 06:48:28

[martin14]

Looks like no one is safe from the Chinese.

[saturn_656]

I can't wait to see the first knock off Canadian Tire store in China... or would it be Chinese Tire?

[fifeboy]

martin14 martin14:

Looks like no one is safe from the Chinese.

Forty years ago Japan was the new retailer who produced excellent goods at reasonable prices, then it was Korea and some of the other "Asian tigers." The difference between these older Asian producers and the Chinese is the Chinese produce mostly crap.

[andyt]

fifeboy fifeboy:

martin14 martin14:

Looks like no one is safe from the Chinese.

Forty years ago Japan was the new retailer who produced excellent goods at reasonable prices, then it was Korea and some of the other "Asian tigers." The difference between these older Asian producers and the Chinese is the Chinese produce mostly crap.

So now the Chinese are making cheap crap knock offs of a product that's already cheap crap? How cheap and crappy can it get?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Might be kind'a nice for the people of China if China "hijacked" the democratic experience though.

[martin14]

fifeboy fifeboy:

martin14 martin14:

Looks like no one is safe from the Chinese.

Forty years ago Japan was the new retailer who produced excellent goods at reasonable prices, then it was Korea and some of the other "Asian tigers." The difference between these older Asian producers and the Chinese is the Chinese produce mostly crap.

Obviously, you weren't around 40 years ago.

Certainly not shopping.


And the other difference is, the Japanese weren't openly stealing the designs
and rebranding it as their own.

[Wada]

They've just watched the US go through the democratic process and figured it is not worth the bother.

[fifeboy]

martin14 martin14:

Obviously, you weren't around 40 years ago.

Certainly not shopping.


And the other difference is, the Japanese weren't openly stealing the designs
and rebranding it as their own.

Actually I was and found Japan made products to be of high quality and lower price. That is how they caused so many problems for N.Am. car makers and electronics.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Wada Wada:

They've just watched the US go through the democratic process and figured it is not worth the bother.

Ok, ya got me

[martin14]

fifeboy fifeboy:

martin14 martin14:

Obviously, you weren't around 40 years ago.

Certainly not shopping.


And the other difference is, the Japanese weren't openly stealing the designs
and rebranding it as their own.

Actually I was and found Japan made products to be of high quality and lower price. That is how they caused so many problems for N.Am. car makers and electronics.

Not in the 70's they werent.

[fifeboy]

martin14 martin14:

fifeboy fifeboy:

martin14 martin14:

Obviously, you weren't around 40 years ago.

Certainly not shopping.


And the other difference is, the Japanese weren't openly stealing the designs
and rebranding it as their own.

Actually I was and found Japan made products to be of high quality and lower price. That is how they caused so many problems for N.Am. car makers and electronics.

Not in the 70's they werent.

The 1973 Datsun 210 I bought for my wife to get to work in was cheaper and better than anything else I could find in Winnipeg. (Actually I bought it in Steinbeck)