Escalation in China US trade war.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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You have a great knack for taking potentially interesting conversations or topics and driving them into pointless oblivion in a single post.

Here's a bigger and more relevant issue. Has anyone even had these Pep & Cheddar things, yet? I think I blew my load in my pants these things are so incredibly succulent and delicious. Life changing!!
Now I found turkey ones at Costco with white cheddar and I was sceptical, but BOOM they're also awesome. I saw a god damned foot-long looking one at the shitty airport store and it took all my will power to not buy it. I think I could eat an entire meal of these. I bet that would be bad for my insides and plumbing but holy shit. If everyone hasn't tried these, get out there and by a couple of bags of them because you're about to give your colon a sucker punch.

They're. So. Good!!!!!!

[bob9979]

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It could help manufacturing in Canada. Import cheap components from China and assemble here. Slap a Made in Canada sticker and ship to the US

Canada looking good!

[revelations]

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Canada looking good!

Being ignored again as usual.....

[Kobe]

A great deal is coming guys! China wants a deal bad!

They are not enemies anymore but besties, <3


Anyone want to bet a deal with over 51% in favor of the US will not happen before the 2020 election?

I'll take the "It wont happen side"

[Xtrema]

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A great deal is coming guys! China wants a deal bad!

They are not enemies anymore but besties, <3


Anyone want to bet a deal with over 51% in favor of the US will not happen before the 2020 election?

I'll take the "It wont happen side"

Apparently Trump lied about that call. Chinese never called.

China isn't a democracy and can/will wait it out until next prez. They don't care because they know their growth will continues at modest 3-6% while the western worlds will fall into recessions without Chinese consumers.

I tends to agree with China. There is no point negotiating with Trump. And when US get back to the bargaining table, they will be in weaken position. As much as I hate TPP, it would have kept China in check. As much as we want to make stuff in NA, you just can't compete with dictatorship that promotes 6 12s as normal work week. This is why Telus/Bell prefer Huawei gears, it's cheaper, better and problems resolutions can be had in days instead of weeks with Ericsson.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/busin...ina/index.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmo.../#7f89b7402628

[ZenOps]

Costco opens in China, chaos insues.

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Lenient return policy in China. That’ll go well.

[lilmira]

Imagine the line for food sample

[speedog]

Apparently there was "poor shopping cart etiquette" in that Chinese Costco. Why would anyone expect to be different there than what one can see in pretty much any grocery store and probably Costo in Calgary?

[370Z]

Is that really worse than what America sees during Black Friday?

Fighting over a piece of pork... you have remember, a lot of these people have been dirt poor for most of their lives.

[Kobe]

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Apparently Trump lied about that call. Chinese never called.

China isn't a democracy and can/will wait it out until next prez. They don't care because they know their growth will continues at modest 3-6% while the western worlds will fall into recessions without Chinese consumers.

I tends to agree with China. There is no point negotiating with Trump. And when US get back to the bargaining table, they will be in weaken position. As much as I hate TPP, it would have kept China in check. As much as we want to make stuff in NA, you just can't compete with dictatorship that promotes 6 12s as normal work week. This is why Telus/Bell prefer Huawei gears, it's cheaper, better and problems resolutions can be had in days instead of weeks with Ericsson.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/busin...ina/index.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmo.../#7f89b7402628

Ya I was obviously trolling here, in my opinion what I've expected to happen for the last 6 months is china take it easy with trump and just try to keep lower tariffs and have this trade war going and then before the 2020 election they will attack and make the US suffer so trump is not re-elected.

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Costco opens in China, chaos insues.

It's interesting because stores like Wal-mart actually haven't done well in china, it's not so much about the cheaper prices, and it's interesting about Costco, I wonder if Wal-mart/Tesco has a ton of people coming in at the start as well..


Wal-mart Failed / Struggling if they still around

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatsp.../#49bfc30c7fb8


Tesco Failed

https://www.raconteur.net/business-i...to-crack-china

[rage2]

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Is that really worse than what America sees during Black Friday?

Fighting over a piece of pork... you have remember, a lot of these people have been dirt poor for most of their lives.

The people shopping at Costco aren’t dirt poor. This is just Chinese people fighting to get a piece of the deal. Honestly, probably not even eating pork for dinner haha.

[bob9979]

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The people shopping at Costco aren’t dirt poor. This is just Chinese people fighting to get a piece of the deal. Honestly, probably not even eating pork for dinner haha.

Exactly, fear of missing out on a deal, hermes handbags and Moutai(50% of retail price) had been sold out soon after opening. Pork is 30% off retail price, have to grab something home better than nothing.
I saw the news nextday Costco had some Rolex daytona and subs on-shelf but people become realistic soon because the price is expensive than retail.（the good thing is you pay a premium without having to wait for it)

[Xtrema]

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It's interesting because stores like Wal-mart actually haven't done well in china, it's not so much about the cheaper prices, and it's interesting about Costco, I wonder if Wal-mart/Tesco has a ton of people coming in at the start as well..

Bob already covered it. It's 30%-50% off for almost anything that caused the chaos. There is no idea of longevity or viability of such business given Home Depot, Best Buy, Walmart to a degree all failed in China. If anything this event could be promoted by CCCP as shot in the bow about Trump telling US businesses to leave China.

You simply can't ignore over 1B consumers even if you write off the other 300M as too poor to join in at this point.

[bob9979]

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Bob already covered it. It's 30%-50% off for almost anything that caused the chaos. There is no idea of longevity or viability of such business given Home Depot, Best Buy, Walmart to a degree all failed in China. If anything this event could be promoted by CCCP as shot in the bow about Trump telling US businesses to leave China.

You simply can't ignore over 1B consumers even if you write off the other 300M as too poor to join in at this point.

I think Costco's future in China market is dimmed, the market is highly competative, though their equivalent (Walmart Sam's club) is expanding their business in China. Domestic Chinese retail brands are more flexible, if you live in big cities there is no need to go get groceries, ordering on the phone and deliveries come in within an hour.