Many buyers in China is much more aware of the supply chain when it comes to manufactured goods in China since China is the biggest manufacturing country in the world. For buyers in China, it's much easier to go up the supply chain. Savvy buyers in China don't go retail, they go wholesale! In big cities in China like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, there are usually centrally located clothing and accessory wholesale [http://www.dhgate.com] markets where merchants sell both in bulk and individually. Many clothing boutiques and retailers go early in the morning and buy in bulk to stock up their stores and get the really good deals. The average consumer tends to on the weekends. However, buyers who wish to buy in bulk have more haggling power. Young adults and teens go in groups in hopes that they will find something they all like in order to get a bulk price on the product, which is even cheaper than the warehouse price.
In China's capital Beijing, the wholesale market is really a spectacular see. One of the most well known wholesale apparel markets in Beijing has been coined, the Zoo Market for it's close proximity to the Beijing Zoo. Every day the Zoo market opens bright and early|first thing in the morning|early in the morning} at six every day of the week wholesale sellers arrange the products on their booths and individual consumers and retail store owners rub the sleep out of their eyes and prepare themselves to be the first to get at the great deals. As the saying goes: they early bird gets the worm!
This sprawling market is not just a market but large area composed of many smaller markets. For instance there an two-level building which people all the "Korean Market". This so-called Korean Market is simply comprised of apparel wholesaler who sell mostly Korean-looking clothes and accessories. This market and other surrounding ones carry everything from handbags, shoes, makeup, wigs to belts and jewelry. The variety of wearable items in this market is truly dizzying.
In addition to the wide range of products, there are also wholesale vendors who are concentrate on one particular item. For instance one vendor offers more than 550 types of hats, selling nothing else. Other venders specialize in one type of product like jewelry, athletic shoes and clothing, or leather goods (wallets, sandals, boots, handbags). One of the more unusual stores in the wholesale Zoo Market area was a merchant dedicated to selling wigs. This vendor has everything from artificial and real wigs, to tupe's and extentions of various of colors.
Another notable part of the Zoo Market is called shoe city. In this underground area, there are thousands upon thousands of shoes, ready for either wholesale or retail. Shoe City offers everything from trainers to sandals and boots-no matter the season! the reason being that retailers from all over come to buy in bulk. It is not even uncommon to see tourists from other countries buying in bulk for the next winter at the Zoo Market.
One last note one doesn't have to worry when it comes to sustainance or refreshments when buying from the wholesale market. No doubt purchasing wholesale is not easy work. lugging around 50 pairs of jeans, for instance is no walk in the park. It's only normal that one gets sweaty and dirty, not to mention thirsty and hungry. thankfully, at the Zoo Market, there is more than cheap apparel. Littering the roads and allyways surrounding the Zoo Market, are dozens of beverage and skewer sellers, in addition to everything from street stalls to proper dining halls.