Image via WikipediaChinese nationalistic anger for the disturbances in London, Paris and San Francisco, now for rather unclear reasons seem to focus at the French retailer Carrefour.Some suggest that this is great news for France as a brand name, since few Chinese consumers actually knew it was a French company at all. The boycott should get in place between May 8 and May 24, explaining the backed parking spots at the Carrefour outlets in the past few days.
There is of course a fair chance there will be a new target (say India) before this boycott might be realized. While debate is certainly heated, it seems rather unclear whether anything is going to happen at all.
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In fact, the reason is quite clear
Now that people knows it is a French shop, not a Chinese one, I expect to see huge jump in market share because people would trust them for better product quality.
Since it is only on one French brand, I really doubt these Chinese really mean business. All of this is a big show. I would believe that a bit more if the Chinese government cancels all orders for planes, precision equipment, and all Chinese officials stop drinking Cognac, French wine, Champagne, haute couture and hand bags.
@bill,
So sad you can't read Chinese. Actually, what you are describing is going on, not only in mainland China but in diasporic Chinese communities.
Girls on Huaren.us are competing (seriously, competing)to post the pictures of the receipts after they returned their LV handbags and French cosmetic products. French people feel too good about themselves. The influence of boycotting French products is trivial for Chinese but crucial for French. And most French products are not something you have to buy and have no other alternatives.
I think this time, the Chinese government got a lesson that we have to build our big planes.
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