{"id":609802,"date":"2026-07-29T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/609802\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:40:48","slug":"hong-kong-retailers-hit-as-customers-head-north-to-cheaper-shenzhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/609802\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong retailers hit as customers &#8216;head north&#8217; to cheaper Shenzhen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/retail\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Retail<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Border crossings surge as residents chase bargains, &#8216;superior&#8217; service<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260728 HK border-crossing\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Chinese\u00a0border officers stand\u00a0at Lo Wu Control Point in 2023. Traveler numbers have surged in recent years at this spot and the five other major land checkpoints between Hong Kong and mainland China.\u00a0 \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; Hong Kong resident Eva Chan has in recent months found a new favorite dating spot: Shenzhen, the neighboring city just across the border in mainland China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail Border crossings surge as residents chase bargains, &#8216;superior&#8217; service Chinese\u00a0border officers stand\u00a0at Lo Wu Control Point in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,85979,9940,179,18,10242,44314,94556,19,17,94557,10940,3123,10522],"class_list":["post-609802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cheaper","tag-customers","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-head","tag-hit","tag-hong","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kong","tag-north","tag-retailers","tag-shenzhen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117002849430466383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609802","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=609802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}