Chinese retailers hijack the Ikea experience

Looks like no one is safe from the Chinese.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

Ok, ya got me

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.

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)