By Geoff Dyer
Published: September 4 2007 03:00
"China's wary shoppers set store by western brands"
...Carrefour and Wal-Mart are both expanding aggressively
in China, which they hope could become a mainstay of
their businesses in the future. Carrefour has 101
hypermarkets in 37 cities, while Wal-Mart has 86
and is in the process of acquiring up to 100 stores
belonging to the Trust-Mart chain....
...Carrefour has three stores in Urumqi, two of which are
in neighbourhoods populated mostly by Han Chinese,
the country's dominant ethnic group.
Their favourite items are similar to those ofshoppers
in Shanghai and Beijing.
However, the hypermarket beside the Erdaqiao mosque
is in an area dominated by ethnic Uighurs and other
Muslim minorities from western China, so the shelves
carry rows of dried apricots, almonds, saffron and different
varieties of raisins.
Women in bright headscarves queue for bags of dried lavender.
The lamb and beef is halal....
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