{"id":670743,"date":"2026-01-03T08:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670743\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:09:16","slug":"chinas-consumer-appetite-still-high-despite-tough-economy-aeon-china-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/670743\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s consumer appetite still high despite tough economy: Aeon China head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Executive for Japanese retailer says Chinese shoppers are focusing more on quality<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260102N Changsha\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A busy thoroughfare in Changsha,\u00a0Hunan province.\u00a0Aeon sees promise in such\u00a0inland provinces, with\u00a0more room for economic growth than coastal areas. (Photo by Kohei Fujimura)<\/p>\n<p>KOHEI FUJIMURA<\/p>\n<p>January 3, 2026 05:35 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">DALIAN, China &#8212; Though Chinese consumers remain reluctant to spend, consumer appetite persists for items that serve necessity or offer\u00a0quality, and some product categories and regions are doing well, Toshiya Goto, an executive at Japanese retailer Aeon and president of its Chinese subsidiary, told Nikkei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Executive for Japanese retailer says Chinese shoppers are focusing more on quality A busy thoroughfare in Changsha,\u00a0Hunan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51319,129536,115416,51,1395,76541,2082,29338,1700,19266,48025,37602,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-670743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-high","9":"tag-aeon","10":"tag-appetite","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chinas","14":"tag-consumer","15":"tag-despite","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-head","18":"tag-still","19":"tag-tough","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115830152538728131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670743","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=670743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}