DTN News - CHINA NEWS: Fake Apple Store Popular In Chongqing....NSI News Source Info # 2276

DTN News - CHINA NEWS: Fake Apple Store Popular In Chongqing....NSI News Source Info # 2276

(NSI News Source Info)

CHONGQING, China

- July 28, 2011:

A local watchdog called on Wednesday for an investigation to begin into an unauthorized Apple store found in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality.

The fake Apple store on a pedestrian street in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality on July 26, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

Yan Xin, an official from the publicity department of the Chongqing Administration for Industry and Commerce, told China Daily that an unauthorized Apple store had been found in the municipality's Jiangbei district and that the administration has begun to investigate the case.

According to the website apple.com.cn, only four official Apple stores exist on the mainland: the Sanlitun and Xidan Joy City stores in Beijing, and the Pudong and Hong Kong Plaza stores in Shanghai. The situation is far different in the United States. There, 236 Apple stores sell electronics to a population that is roughly a fourth the size of China's.

Some entrepreneurs evidently thought the Chinese market could support a few more Apple outlets and were willing to test out their hypothesis without first obtaining the company's approval.

On a pedestrian street in Chongqing, a 60-square-meter store decorated to resemble an authorized Apple store was filled on Wednesday afternoon with about 30 shoppers, most of whom were young.

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