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Massive government subsidies that allow companies to more or less run at a loss for the most part. Its the same playbook as Wallmart and just like Wallmart its a sure bet that those prices will go up once the local competition is wiped out.
Where does a government that subsidies a company operating at a loss get the money to fund itself and its unprofitable company? And why is the Chinese economy continuing to grow (often faster than its western peers) if all its businesses operate at a loss?
The playbook Walmart uses is to buy cheap disposable foreign imports wholesale and then sell them to western consumers at a 1000% markup, knowing they'll break and need to be repurchased in short order.
Well, it sounds like China knows a little more about the economy than we do then. Maybe we should do the same thing here. Consumers would be happy if they had cheaper products.
China doesn't care as much about regulations. They're okay with massive pollution and slave labour. Do you want to live with that massive lower quality of life to produce cheap products you still can't properly afford because your wages have been cut? There is a tricky balance to keep China as our personal factory and not lose our ability to afford the things they make.
So... communism works?
Looks like the only people this upsets are wealthy Westerners and their useful idiots.
This actually never happened. Walmart is still cheaper than any regular* grocery store, especially the co-ops.
*ALDI is cheaper because all of their products suck. Their produce sucks, their packaged goods suck, and their meats aren't actually cheaper. I think less of anyone who recommends ALDI and regret all the effort I put into giving it a chance.
I guess this is a regional phenomenon because the aldi stores near me have all been great and cheaper.
They are not Communist, it has now become an even more repressive autocratic regime, under the guise of a Communist label. If you want to know about communism read Karl Marx.
Right. I'm talking about this specific instance, not China as a whole.