Sunday, April 27, 2008

Carrefour boycott seems to catch on

The Carrefour supermarket at Faa'a, Tahiti, French Polynesiavia WikipediaIt is against my expectations, but there are a lot of signals that the Carrefour boycott is catching on quite a lot in some places. A report from Shenzhen shows that Carrefour has slashed it prices by 50 percent, while French products in other stores are also not bought anymore.
I believe - with my twitter friends in Shanghai - that slashing the prices in Shanghai would be a very effective way to counter any boycott. Would be curious to get more reports about other cities on a possible effect of the boycott of Carrefour and the French products. A friend in Beijing reports brisk business at Carrefour there. Will try to get some more updates later today.

1 comment:

Jeff Rigsby said...

Carrefour isn't doing well in China anyway, is it? I hear that they have yet to reach breakeven.