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Chinese New Year Shopping Spree

Promotions, discounts, and entertainment help make holiday sales skyrocket


Chinese New Year Shopping Spree in Hong Kong
Chinese people go shopping before and during the Spring Festival, and the huge crowds at shopping malls and markets make it an athletic challenge. People shop for holiday food, decorations, clothes, gifts, and furniture. Portable luxury products are now the star sellers.

Now, with newly opened borders, a new feature to the Hong Kong Chinese New New Year is an influx of 100,000s of cash-rich Chinese on holiday shopping sprees. They snap up the festival deals in huge quantities, and the malls entertain them. The mainland Chinese use their Spring Festival vacation time to go to Hong Kong and take advantage of the low taxes on the wide selection of luxury products and the hard to get imported products such as powdered milk. They carry them across the border to avoid stiff duties and control.

They come with cash, and the many major malls schedule special promotions, entertainment and displays to attract them. The Chinese may soon overtake Americans as the world's leading consumers of luxury products.

Shopping hours: Malls stay open and even extend hours for the shopping rush during Chinese New Year's Eve and the important first few days of the Chinese New Year. But small market street shops may close for a couple of days or close early. If you plan on shopping, here are regular and luxury shopping tips and guides: