WalMart!

Yesterday was our first business visit -- to WalMart's headquarters here in Shenzhen. It was kind of crazy; the Chinese have a different sense of 'business casual' than we do. It's crazy casual! The meeting room we were in was very bare bones; the ex-pat VP we met with told us that it was a WalMart thing: focus the money elsewhere.

After listening to the VP (and learning some interesting things... did you know that the average basket of goods at WalMart in China is US $9?), we visited the Sam's Club. Now here's an interesting conundrum: the Sam's Club here is targeted at the upper middle class to the upper class folks. For example, they sell 3D TVs and a 103" television and US $50,000 bottles of Cognac. Very odd indeed.

We walked around the Sam's club and saw the monster TV and the expensive liquor, but we also got to see live shrimp in a tank ready to be picked, a cut up alligator on display in the seafood section, and we got to try some monster fruit from Thailand.

At the moment, I can't find my camera's cable, so all these pictures will be up later.