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Posh ice cream, craft beer in vogue as Chinese downsize their love of luxury

Brands that have jumped on the trend include Kweichow Moutai, best known for $300 bottles of baijiu, the Chinese spirit popular at banquets. It debuted baijiu-infused ice cream at $10 a cup in May, racking up 2.5 million yuan ($350,000) of sales on the first day.Hong Kong-listed Budweiser Brewing Asia-Pacific, a unit of Anheuser-Busch InBev, notes that premium and craft beer as well as specially packaged gift boxes of beer priced at hundreds of dollars are selling unexpectedly well.คำพูดจาก ปั่นสล็อต

Sales of gaming gear and home devices from water-saving shower heads to smart toothbrushes to printers surged as much as four times last year’s levels during JD.com’s mid-year 618 shopping festival, data from the e-commerce giant showed.Chinese consumers are “spoiling themselves with those little things and they’re loving something novel,” said Mark Tanner, founder of marketing agency China Skinny.The shift in consumer trends, one that has seen some segments of the population go ultra-frugal comes amid much economic gloom.The country’s COVID-zero policy and its resulting frequent lockdowns have put the brakes on business activity and normal outlets for spending such as tourismคำพูดจาก เว็บตรงสล็อต. The property sector is also in crisis while the tech and private tutoring industries have sharply reined in hiring after regulatory crackdowns, contributing to a spike in youth unemployment.he economy narrowly escaped contraction in the second quarter and retail sales grew a measly 0.5% in January to August from the same period a year earlier, a far cry from growth of around 8% to 9% seen in recent years.Western luxury brands, in particular, are hurting. Burberry Group and French conglomerate Kering, which houses brands such as Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, both reported 35% year-on-year declines for China sales in the April-June quarter.Lucy Lu, a 31-year-old Shanghai resident who works in marketing for a domestic fashion brand, says she is one of many consumers mending her ways.”Before, let’s say with a handbag or cosmetics, if I liked it I would just buy it without a second thought, now I really double check with myself if I need something before I buy it.””Dining out is now my main treat,” Lu added.For some artisanal food and drink sellers, this new shift in consumer behaviour represents a perfect moment to expand.Gerard Low, founder of Shanghai-based ice cream brand Dal Cuore where a scoop costs about 40 yuan ($5.60), plans to open a fifth store in the mega-city, encouraged by the quick return of footfall to normal levels after a draconian two-month lockdown was lifted earlier this year.He also notes that more families, instead of mostly young people, are heading to his shops for a treat.”When times aren’t so good, people want to feel better, guilty pleasures like ice cream can help,” said Low.

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