< p > from May 1, after mother's day, children's day, Dragon Boat Festival and father's day, in a month and a half, Guangzhou's shopping malls averaged 9 days to make a promotion. The average discount of Dragon Boat Festival is still half off. But after the release of consumption power, reporters yesterday visited the city and found that the Dragon Boat Festival was less popular than children's day. < /p >
< p > a department store insider told our reporter that under the promotion, the three day sale of the shopping mall Dragon Boat Festival is almost the same as that of the usual weekend. < /p >
< p > < strong > shopping malls: dragon boat sales are flat last year < /strong > < /p >
< p > according to the reporter, the average discount of most merchants during the Dragon Boat Festival is around half off, which is almost the same as the previous children's day and mother's day. Some consumers said that they had seen too much and could hardly be moved. < /p >
< p > at the same time, the virtual high a target= "_blank" href= "http://m.pmae.cn/" > clothing < /a > "tag price", so that consumers face sales promotion still feel "very hurt", many consumers think even discount price is too high. Ms. Yu, who lives in Haizhuqu District, said: "in the new world of the sun, some clothing is half off, and it is almost the same price as it did last year." Yesterday, reporters at Tianhe City department store, although men's clothing generally hit 50 percent off, a man's short sleeved T-shirt after folding price of eight hundred or nine hundred yuan is also very common. < /p >
< p > < strong > Brokerage: retail trade < /strong > /p >
< p > < strong > the turning point of obvious improvement has not yet reached < /strong > < /p >.
< p > National Bureau of statistics data show that in May, the national consumer price level rose 2.1% year-on-year, and clothing prices rose by 2.5% over the same period last year. Among them, clothing prices rose 2.7%, < a target= "_blank" href= "http://m.pmae.cn/" > shoes < /a > category prices rose 1.7%. A person in charge of a shopping mall in Guangzhou said that shopping malls also felt helpless because of the high price of the "tag price" of clothing because they could not restrain the pricing of manufacturers. < /p >
< p > flush iFind statistics show that in the 73 listed companies of Shenyin world classification and retail sales, the business income in the first quarter of this year increased by 10.35% compared with the same period in the first quarter of 2012, and the revenue grew 17.96% in the first quarter of this year. But in May, successive promotions played a stimulating role in sales. According to the latest data released by the China National Business Information Center, the retail sales of 50 key large retail enterprises increased by 10.6% in the same period in May this year. Among them, the retail sales of clothing increased by 3% over the same period last year. < /p >
< p > industry insiders say that after the big push in the middle of this year, the temperature will increase in the next two months and the impact of the upcoming electricity supplier war in June will be reduced. The sales of the retail enterprises under the line will be under pressure. Many brokerages think that the turning point of the two quarter retail industry's obvious improvement is yet to come. < /p >