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After boycotting Carrefour, this is the scene I took in Carrefour on May 3, 2008.
There are Less People, but Much Lesser than I Expected
This is the main "street" in the shopping mall. It is rarely like this! It is almost empty in Shanghai standard. It is daily scene in many shopping malls in US, but in Shanghai, it is called empty.
This area is almost empty, with no customers. In the cooked food area, I counted, and found out the number of customers are less than the staff behind the food counter.
This is the checkout area. No lines at all.
Out of the 30 or so counters, almost half of them are closed with signs like this:
For the open counters, there are no lines.
This is the scene of the checkout counters - again, not many customers.
Well. What do you think?
Facts about the Photos
In short, I want my readers to know that there are some errors in what is reflected in these photos from the facts. It does not seem THAT bad, although everyone should be safe to conclude that the business of this store is seriously impacted.
Contrast with Another Series of Photos
I don't have photos of the same Carrefour before the boycott, but I do have some photos of another Carrefour in Beijing (near the Worker's Stadium). The following photos were taken on January 28, 2006. The same Shanghai store is very like this, if not busier in normal days.
Posted by Jian Shuo Wang at May 3, 2008 9:25 PM
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Holy smokin' catfish!!!! where did all the customers go?
I think that Sarko should just say he's very sorry for what happened to the Olympic torch bearer in Paris a couple of weeks ago.
Posted by: Shrek7 on May 3, 2008 9:58 PMThe Carrefour at Zhongshan park is still doing well. Where exactly did you take this picture?
Posted by: George on May 3, 2008 11:41 PM1:00 PM, today, in Xinlicheng Store in Pudong.
Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang (external link) on May 3, 2008 11:50 PMWhen Chinese buy stuffs inside China, why should they spent money in foreign-owned department stores?
Make your money counts. Stop patronizing all the foreign-owned stores.
Let the world understands that Chinese aint gonna be taken for granted no more!
Posted by: penang on May 4, 2008 12:23 AMBest time to go shopping in Carrefour!
No parking problems either :-)
;-)
Posted by: ecodelta on May 4, 2008 4:55 AMThe JinQiao store is not as bad as this - but less people than normal.
So where have all the shoppers gone ? LianHua ? They must be PACKED with people :-)
Posted by: RWM on May 4, 2008 9:38 AMI want to the same Carrefour at about 8pm in May 1th, it was packed.
Posted by: xge on May 4, 2008 10:17 AMOmg this is more serious than i thought. Whatever is gonna happen to all the local-manufactured products sold in Carrefour? I think those cashier girls who used to man the not-in-use counters can consider a long break~~~
Posted by: Hui Ru on May 4, 2008 6:07 PMThanks for RWM and xge - different time may show different view. To take their observation, you get get a more complete view.
Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang (external link) on May 4, 2008 7:33 PMLianYang store and Thumb Plaza is bad as well.
Did anyone notice that the company put up a notice to explain their stand of fully support the Olympic and denied the allegations about their involvement in politics?
And Jin Jin (the paralympic athelete) also stood up and voice her opinion. I agree with her points. By boycotting Carrefour doesn't bring any benefits because majority of the goods are Made in China. Suppliers are local Chinese farmers and Carrefour employees are Chinese. I am sure the local Chinese suppliers having bad days because their vege cannot sell and let it rot in their farm. The eggs expired on the shelves and no takers. Poor the farmers.
Posted by: DC on May 5, 2008 11:40 AMi am happy to see the sence, really happy and pride, i am a typical 80th girl, frankly speaking, we even do not know if we love our country or not ,we did not think out this topic much,but this time ,much of our angry show our patriotic heart in another side, look ,that is own power
Posted by: kitty on May 5, 2008 1:45 PMThere is a carrefour supermarket about 500 meters from my home. After what happened in Paris, none of my familiy memebers went to shopping there. My mother did her daily shopping in Ito Yokado . it takes about 10 minutes ride there, and once a taxi driver offered her a free drive when my mother told him the reason why she refursed to go to Carrefour. Ironically enough, Ito Yokado is owned by Japanese. and it's widely know that most Chinese are anti-Japanese but pro-france before.
On May 1, we took my 1-year-old nephew to the entrance of Carrefour. We didn't do shopping there, just to take a picture to let my nephew know that there was such a big change to Sino-french relationship when he was small. There were still people doing shopping in Carrefour, but compared with normal days, the super market was almost empty, while it is always packed with people during holidays.
Personally I don't think we should go on with the boycotting thing, which brings no benefit to either sides, and it seriously impacts the local suppliers. I think people will gradually started to doing shopping in Carrefour again and ladies will also taking up their lancome lipsticks . It just takes some time to confront the emotional obstacles.
Posted by: August on May 5, 2008 3:13 PMNice photos. I was in the Shanghai Carrefour in Hongqiao on Wed April 23rd around 5pm and it was packed with at least 200-300 people in the aisles shopping...like any other market in Shanghai. So these photos are pretty shocking.
Next time they boycott, they need to tell everyone to go to the store, but only spend 1 rmb....that will be proof of the dissatisfaction of the Chinese consumer.
Of course I'm against the humanitarin violations of the authoritarian CCP government, but as a US citizen...lets take care of our own transgressions first before we attack the Chinese people about Tibet........maybe starting with Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.....
Posted by: David on May 5, 2008 3:41 PMI feel sad to heard that someone still go purchase in Carrefour on 1 May...
It 's completely bull shit to mention that "90% of their product are made in China".....As we all know the campaign is showing how Chinese hold tightly together. They should respect us before earn profit from us...
Posted by: William on May 5, 2008 6:16 PM"facts about the photos"
1. location
2. how I chose a normally light time
3. how I manipulated the images by purposely trying to avoid photographing people.
4. how I compare it to a different store at a different time for effect.
you have the propaganda methodology down really well. good job!
Posted by: mike on May 6, 2008 2:12 AM@solopolo, what happened? I didn't notice anything...
Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang (external link) on May 6, 2008 9:37 PM