{"id":231500,"date":"2025-12-13T22:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/231500\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:18:26","slug":"chinas-consumers-hunt-for-bargains-after-subsidy-fueled-demand-fizzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/231500\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s consumers hunt for bargains after subsidy-fueled demand fizzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Conveyor belt sushi and low-cost goods thrive while smartphone shipments fall<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20251212N Chinese shoppers\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">China&#8217;s consumer sentiment remains soft despite a government subsidy aimed at encouraging shoppers to make significant purchases. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>KENTARO SHIOZAKI and TOMOKO WAKASUGI<\/p>\n<p>December 13, 2025 03:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BEIJING\/SHANGHAI &#8212; Chinese consumers are increasingly shifting to stores that offer competitive prices such as conveyor belt sushi chains as the impact of the government&#8217;s stimulus spending\u00a0faded in the latter half of the year, signaling weakening domestic demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Conveyor belt sushi and low-cost goods thrive while smartphone shipments fall China&#8217;s consumer sentiment remains soft despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[123597,79,16268,3349,754,179,18,123599,123596,19,17,123598],"class_list":{"0":"post-231500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bargains","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chinas","11":"tag-consumers","12":"tag-demand","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-fizzles","16":"tag-hunt","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-subsidy-fueled"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115714582995941124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}