Hongkong Christmas Shoe Discount Is Very "Calm", "Cabbage Price" Era No Longer Come.

annually Christmas And new year's day, "Hongkong colorful Winter Festival" will debut, businesses take advantage of the discount. Promotion It has attracted many mainland residents to go to Hong Kong to sweep goods. This year, rumors that Hongkong merchants will be "Crazy" discount, everything is cabbage prices. However, after a recent field trip to Hong Kong, the reporter found that the intensity of the discount this year is not as good as the rumor of "Craziness". Cosmetics are not "flat" except commodities are much cheaper than Guangzhou. Department store The company is "calm", "everything is cabbage prices" scene does not exist.

　　 There is indeed a flat: daily necessities compare to Guangzhou Ping 1/3.

This Monday, a reporter saw that a chain drugstore in Mong Kok was crowded with tourists from the mainland. Everyone was carrying a small basket filled with various kinds of daily necessities such as medicinal liquor, shampoo, shower gel and so on. Almost all the objects were swept into the basket, and a long queue was formed in front of the collection office. A tourist with a few boxes of hair dye told reporters that the brand of the same hair dye in Guangzhou sold 60 yuan, while in Hongkong only 45 yuan Hong Kong dollars, after the exchange rate less than 40 yuan, "it is really cost-effective." Reporters calculated that the price of shampoo, shower gel and so on would be about 1/3 cheaper than the supermarket price in Guangzhou. Some tourists said they would buy more bottles, and the money saved would be able to collect the fare back and forth.

In the Christmas and new year period, the daily necessities will usually be twenty percent off on the original basis, and the prices of those goods will be much cheaper than those in Guangzhou. The discount rate plus the exchange rate is basically a discount of four to half off.

　　 Limited discount: wave shoes, cosmetics prices "hard"

In the Garden Street, known as "wave shoe Street", the discount rate is much smaller, up to twenty percent off, and most shops are 15% off. Reporters saw a pair of brand sports shoes, the price in Guangzhou is 790 yuan, the discount price in Garden Street is 770~790 Hong Kong dollars, in fact, it earned the difference of exchange rate, equivalent to 15% off. Some high-end sports shoes can save two hundred or three hundred yuan after converting the exchange rate, but because of their high price, they are not cheap.

The cosmetics of the major brands are also "very calm" this year. Most cosmetic counters in department stores and chain stores only offer 5% off discount, and the gifts are not as generous as they used to be.

　　 Department stores: ten percent off regular passenger discount

Reporters visited several large department stores in Yau Tsim Mong District and did not see the "Crazy" discount in the legend. These department stores only continued some conventional passenger discount, the discount rate was no less than ten percent off. Mong Kok Lang Langfang shopping malls, shopping malls staff said that visitors can travel documents to get a gift card, the more than 70 shops in the field enjoy different concessions; and the Yongan department store near Jotun can maintain a ten percent off discount for passengers' voucher, cosmetics, sports goods, electronic products and other counters have not seen any special offers, and prices are flat with garden street.

　 Last year, "Crazy" no longer

In fact, since last year, the "frenzy" of Hongkong Christmas and new year discount sales has been "cooling down". Compared with last year, the discount rate is even more sharp. Brand clothing, shoes, electrical appliances and so on last year also can be as low as thirty percent off or 25% off, this year is more than twenty percent off; cosmetics, milk powder and other most favored by the mainland tourists goods last year has been no less than 15% off, this year is mostly about ten percent off, and the same as usual.

Alex is a frequent arrival in Hongkong. He said that in the past two years, the discount rate of the new year's new year in Hongkong is really not as good as before. It is mainly that the prices of goods in recent years have risen. In addition, a large number of tourists come to the shops and let businesses feel that they do not worry about doing so. "Before the business, the discount sale is mainly for the purpose of refunding the funds. There are so many tourists who buy things nowadays. Even if the merchants do not cut prices, the tourists will have to go all the way, and they will not go back empty handed, and businesses will not make money without making money."