-Comments on Fengge Yang’s blog post “#5 Target now shipping to Canada: Another Failed Venture?”
According Fengge Yang’s blog post, her opinion is that the re-enter of Target into Canada’s market is a another failure. And she provided reason to support her opinion. Firstly, consumer will be unacceptable toward the high shipping price from U.S to Canada. Secondly, she indicated that Target put itself at wrong position in the Canada’s market.
So I would like to say I agree with her ideas. Personally, as a consumer, I feel that I can’t accept the shipping fee either. I had several experiences of buying products from U. S’s online retailers and the shipping fee is normally ranged from $15 to $100. SO from the perspective as a consumer, it makes no sense to me if I buy low-price products from Target with higher shipping fees. And I also want to point out another thing, any imported item valued over $20 is subject to duty and sales tax. So if a consumer wants to buy Target’s products online, he or she also needs to pay much more in tax. So I also think that it’s not an easy thing for Target to re-enter Canada only if this firm could solve the higher shipping fee and tax problems
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-Comments on Wen (Susie) Zhang’s blog post “One-Child Policy”
I think it is the right time for China to stop its One-child Policy otherwise the aging population will be larger and therefore will lead to several social issues (e.g lack of labor force, gender imbalance, uneven distribution of medical system…). I am the only child in my family, so I also have the same feeling as Wen Zhang. For example, I often felt alone during my childhood and was dreaming of having a brother or sister to play with me. So in my opinion, stopping the practice of One-child Policy is a wise decision. And I think the breakdown of One-child Policy will bring some positive impacts for China’s economy, for example, this will lead to increased consumption on baby-related products. And I also saw an interesting news, baby-related stock surged after the announcement of stopping One-Child Policy.
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