sale

Twice in one week; we went to check on some replacement items here in
Shanghai, brand name ones. Just to look and compare prices. Wow...
There was no sale sign anywhere; but as soon as we picked up an item,
a sale person would reminded us that there was a 50% off or 15% off.
The most deep discount was from the Gucci store. Very strange. Then
an "ah-ha" moment...

The Chinese don't like having the sale sign up specially in big brand
name stores. This would indicate a "business is not so good"
mentality. Then "bad" news would spread like gophers running around
the Prairie (funny, I still can't spell Prairie correctly after all
these years and still need my spell checker for that!). Yet in other
Asian countries, sale signs are everywhere with the like of Gucci,
Ferragamos, Zegna, to name a few.