There are Xiushui Street in Beijing and Xiangyang Road in Shanghai, both of which are clothing markets. There are many counterfeit famous brands and a lot of goods, but they also attract foreigners.
I have also been to Xiushui Street in Beijing, where people come and go and there is a shopping atmosphere. Looking at a dazzling array of businesses, watching a large number of big-name goods marching in the city with shopkeepers, advertising for themselves, making money and shouting, doing business with friends from all over the world in fluent English, and looking at smart faces that are sometimes friendly and sometimes indifferent, we can see the most active side of China's market economy.
When it comes to bargaining for goods, shopping is also an interesting thing. How much a commodity is cheaper depends largely on what you buy. For example, if you buy medicine to save people, you should bite the bullet no matter how high the price is, because life is important. For example, when eating food, there is generally no such thing as a lion bargaining for more than half of it; And some clothing products, especially some so-called "brand-name clothing", are the main bargaining positions.
Generally speaking, big shopping malls like to offer discounts and hold activities, but in clothing markets like Xiushui and Xiangyang Road, shopkeepers can make up their own minds and know the purchase price like the back of their hands, but the price may be all water, so bargaining is necessary. In my experience, cut it in half first. If the store readily agrees, it means that the cutting is not in place. You can continue to bargain with the same thing until the store is pale and doesn't want to talk to you. Even if you leave, he won't call you back, which means the price is almost the same.
As for outsiders, I think in Xiushui, besides buying the goods I like, I also experienced the life of ordinary people after shopping in the capital Beijing. The process of bargaining is also a process of wits and wits. Both China people and foreigners like to find the feeling of victory in bargaining and pay for it. That's what it means.