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Apple's Largest Retail Store Yet Coming to Dalian, China?

coolspot18 said:
Crazy? You can't randomly go errecting walls/barriers anywhere you like... The same thing would happen in the US.
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Which America are you talking about :confused:, not mine. Police don't come and just take down things just because. You take it to court and then police will come if there is a real issue. I see money passing between police and merchants for this to happen. :eek:

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Small White Car said:
Have you been to the US?

The first step would obviously be to have your lawyers call the mall's lawyers.

It's like you don't know anything about us.
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Or in other world civil and orderly like what China is suppose to be. They spout it every chance they get.:rolleyes:

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lixuelai said:
The "go big or go home" comment pretty much hit the nail on the head. Apple is a higher end brand in China than in the U.S. and it makes more sense to build a gigantic store serving a city where the buyer experience can be carefully managed rather than building many smaller stores. Anyway the barricades don't seem to do much other than being an advertisement for Apple.
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Plus does anyone here really care if we don't have the biggest Store. The one I go to has on average 15 to service and help you. There is a coffee house next door and is in a Mall I love it, everything is there and its the size that I like big enough to move around but not so big that i feels like a library.

There must be more to this story than just whatwe see, but what I do know is this kind of crazy does not work here. Police don't go around doing these things unless there is a really big crowd and they have no choice. Less a story about Apple more a story about construction and police procedure in this part of China.
 
Just came back from Parkland shopping centre, everything is gone, like it never happened.

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hissyfit said:
I don't like when people behave like this. NOT very civilized:mad:. If I was Apple and it was up to me, I would say, "Fine, we're taking our toys and going home". :p
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To be fair, Apple is probably not hot and springy about this fight, but what can they do ? This probably happened in a matter of hours, between parties they cannot control. There is no way they will leave that mall just because of this. Most people will never see or hear about this.
 
east85 said:
Yeah, but even in our "dirt holes" this kind of uncivilized behavior would never happen. We are a litigious nation and you simply can not hire thugs to start tearing down storefronts to have your way. This is simply unacceptable.
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Well (and please Chinese readers forgive me), this type of behaviour is relatively commonplace in China. You're probably right that this would not happen in most dirt holes in America, but in China you cannot exactly rely on a judge to solve this problem - if you go to a judge, in a lot of places this will boil down to who is the highest bidder (read:briber). Hiring thugs is the quick and cheap solution. And this happens in the North-East of China, which has some fame for being a relatively more violent place.

The building I work in has built a wall between them and the other buildings, because it is close to the subway. So if you work in the other buildings, you need to walk a really long way to go to the subway. In other words, they try to prevent people from taking leases in the other buildings by basically blocking the street.

Now because this is Beijing, the other guys are going to court over it. In a smaller city people will just rent a wrecking ball and go for it.
 
Oh man, the number of late night talk show jokes that can come from this. China, walls, breaking down walls, mongolians. Good stuff right here.
 
coolspot18 said:
Crazy? You can't randomly go errecting walls/barriers anywhere you like... The same thing would happen in the US.
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No it wouldn't. The objecting companies would go to the mall management who would then go to the offending store and point out that their barricade was past their assigned lease line and needed to be moved back asap. Or the management (who were likely the ones that put up the barricade) would defend the 'offending' store by saying they put it up and the other stores would have to deal. and perhaps offer an olive branch of a temp reduction in rent.

If security from a store or another mall turned up, the local security would call the cops on them for destruction of private property the moment a hand touched a sign.

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maflynn said:
Evidently not, otherwise the barricades would not have to be dismantled
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No one has proven that they HAD to be dismantled. They could have been 100% legal but someone didn't like it so they forced their judgement on the situation and destroyed them and mall property
 
kiljoy616 said:
Or in other world civil and orderly like what China is suppose to be. They spout it every chance they get.:rolleyes:
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Or in other words, you saw that I made a self deprecating joke about my own country and decided to twist it around to make it sound like I made a racist comment about another country.

Jesus. No, that's not what I meant. But thanks for going to such extreme lengths to make me look bad. I'm honored that I'm worth that much effort.
 
Classic! Just goes to show that modern civilization in China isn't far removed from a Kung Fu movie: gang confrontation in public square.
 
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