Costco Wholesale Corp said it will limit the number of shoppers at its new China store after overcrowding forced the U.S. big box retailer to ...
SHANGHAI: Costco said it will limit the number of shoppers at its new China store after overcrowding forced the US big box retailer toNo more than 2,000 shoppers at any given time will be allowed into the store in a Shanghai suburb, Costco's first in China, and local police will help to improve the flow of traffic near the store, it said on Wednesday .A woman pushes a trolley with a teddy bear at the first Costco outlet in China, on the stores opening day in Shanghai, Aug 27, 2019.
Viral images online showed shoppers clambering to get in, jostling with others to snag roasted chickens and meat, and waiting in huge lines to check out. Bargain-hunters battled to get their hands on freshly cooked rotisserie chickens while staff pleaded with them to form a queue. Snaking queues and frenzied buying are not uncommon when new stores open or trendy new products hit the market in China.Consumers lined up for hours to buy hamburgers at Shake Shack when it opened its first China store in Shanghai earlier this year, and scalpers reportedly held places in line or hawked burgers at huge markups.
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