LONDON : Some 2,000 Chinese tourists swooped on a British shoe shop and snapped up armfuls of shoes - made in China, a report said on Saturday.
The visitors descended on the Clarks store at the Bicester Village shopping centre, near Oxford in south-east England, leaving staff stunned, the Daily Express reported.
"There was a queue outside the door and we need to do a lot of restocking this weekend," said Miranda Markham, deputy director of the Village.
"They all made a bee-line for Clarks.
"The fact that many of the shoes may have been made in China seems to have been lost on most of them," she told the newspaper.
Just because something is "made in China" doesn’t mean it can be easily bought in China. And in regards to shoes, it may soon be a little harder to get them in Europe.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union’s trade chief decided to launch
a probe into whether Chinese shoes are being dumped on the EU market
after workers demonstrated in Brussels on Wednesday.
