Shanghai’s trend shops wrestle to clear lockdown inventory hangover
SHANGHAI — Virtually a month since Shanghai lifted its strict coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19) lockdowns, trend retailers are caught with piles of unsold inventory as cautious customers avoid the industrial hub’s glitzy buying districts.
Curbs to cease the virus in Shanghai, China’s trend capital, floor the town of 25 million to a halt in April and Could, leaving clothes and wonder product shows in shops untouched and containers of imported attire stranded at port.
Town’s re-opening this month noticed a flood of products ship from warehouses to retailer cabinets already laden