A report in the National Business Daily cites an insider "familiar with Gucci's operation mode"and claims the company repaired a bag that was returned by a customer and put it right back on the shelves. It's precisely the thing that 99% of businesses would do, of course, but hey, this is Gucci. more ›

Shanghai's new Apple Store on East Nanjing Road (which we've been prattling on about for over a week now) opened its doors to the public at 9am this morning, and we aren't exaggerating when we say we haven't seen Chinese people this giddy about something, ever. Since we're rather China-centric at Shanghaiist, it's par for the course to compare random social phenomena to some previous kindred thing from the dark murk of bygone Communist epochs, and we'll be a running dog if the assembled crowd weren't the happiest, most hopped-up Chinese people Shanghai's seen since Liberation. more ›

The largest in China, the new East Nanjing Road location is the third Apple Store in Shanghai, and the fifth nationwide. Replete with the same products and accessories available at most Apple Stores worldwide (variation does occur: the iPad 2 3G was just released in China today, trailing other markets by six months), the new Nanjing Road Apple Store will feature plenty of personal attention from its in-house staff, so that a visit with the royal blue-shirted Apple Helpers will mean anyone who hasn't already swallowed the Mac Gospel will be ready to click around their new OSX desktop with a measure of familiarity. more ›

According to Apple's China website, the opening date for Shanghai's third Apple Store has been confirmed for this Friday morning at 9am. You can find the store at the corner of East Nanjing Road and Henan Middle Road, and normal operation hours will be between 10am to 10pm every day of the week. more ›

Since national broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) aired a report alleging that "Made in Italy" products sold at luxury furniture retailer DaVinci are actually made in China, the company, which retails such top brands as Armani Casa, Fendi Casa and Versace Home, has become a target of national scorn. more ›

We covered Gap's opening of the first China store right here in Shanghai and now the American retailer is making the news again for another opening, except this time it's a store that is online. more ›

Back when we covered the opening of Shanghai's first apple store in the IFC building of Lujiazui, we mentioned that this was just the beginning of a full retail onslaught Apple had planned for China. Now several people have reported seeing the next Shanghai Apple Store on Huaihai Lu. more ›

From the few Chinese infomercials we've seen, we can tell pretty much immediately that we'd never buy anything off the television in China (except for that breast enhancing bra, maybe?). Apparently we're not the only ones who don't like bad commercials that try to sell things to us: dissatisfaction with infomercial shopping is on the rise around China. Last year, 4,226 people in Shanghai called the police over bad deals, which marks an astronomical 30x increase in four years. And it's getting more pronounced: authorities received over 3,000 complaints in the first quarter of this year. more ›

Not content with sinking its rabid fangs into our children, our metro system and our optometrists, it seems the sinister cabal behind the Hello Kitty brand now wants to ensnare 50 percent of YOU, dear readers. more ›

Over the week-long National Day holiday:
• Total airline passenger numbers climbed a quarter on the year-earlier period to 3.75 million people, with the record of 540,000 was set on September 30 - the highest number of people to be flying on a single day.
• One million computers were infected with various computer viruses, and 118,000 computers crashed on one day alone.
• Retail sales of consumer goods in China rose 16 percent year-on-year to almost 350 billion yuan.