El secreto de los negocios chinos - En Argentina

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In just a few years, Asian supermarkets have become formidable rivals to large chains and other sales channels. The keys to a hard-won success.

Silvia Rodiño.
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Chinese supermarkets are multiplying, growing, and managing to compete with the large chains. They capture 60% of the demand for basic necessities in the city of Buenos Aires and plan to launch their own mobile database brands. They operate where others don't dare, working nonstop and achieving low prices.
"The owners themselves make an impressive sacrifice;

they work up to 14 hours a day. And they don't "marry" any wholesaler. They organize themselves in family structures. One person is responsible for the purchasing decision for about ten supermarkets. They fight over prices and pay cash for a large volume of merchandise," explains Alberto Guida, President of the Argentine Chamber of Distributors and Wholesale Self-Service Stores.

Miguel Angel Calvete, representative of the chamber that represents Chinese supermarkets, says that popular belief has replaced the phrase "the Galician on the corner" with "the Chinese around the corner." Since 1994, with the second wave of immigration, Chinese supermarkets have grown from 300 to nearly 4,000 today. According to the