{"id":366685,"date":"2025-08-23T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366685\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:37:12","slug":"chinas-price-wars-lead-to-free-food-half-price-designer-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366685\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s price wars lead to free food, half-price designer bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Companies vie for reluctant consumers in sign of rising deflationary pressure<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20250822N Meituan delivery\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Meituan is among the delivery app giants engaging in a price\u00a0war\u00a0amid deflationary pressure in China.\u00a0(Photo by Takashi Kawakami)<\/p>\n<p>KENTARO SHIOZAKI and TOMOKO WAKASUGI<\/p>\n<p>August 23, 2025 08:29 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BEIJING\/SHANGHAI &#8212; Deep discounts have become a symptom of\u00a0China&#8217;s economic slowdown as the country starts to show more signs of downard pressure on prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Companies vie for reluctant consumers in sign of rising deflationary pressure Meituan is among the delivery app&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[44227,51,76541,46232,1700,1203,5899,128408,37730,14836,16,15,10021],"class_list":{"0":"post-366685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bags","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chinas","11":"tag-designer","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-free","15":"tag-half-price","16":"tag-lead","17":"tag-price","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115076939423232687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}