{"id":306683,"date":"2026-07-27T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306683\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:20:10","slug":"labubu-takes-manhattan-chinese-brands-target-inflation-hit-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306683\/","title":{"rendered":"Labubu takes Manhattan: Chinese brands target inflation-hit US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/consumer\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Pop Mart readies NYC flagship store while Luckin moves into former Starbucks shops<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260724N NY China brands\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Labubu seller Pop Mart, Luckin Coffee and ice cream chain Mixue are among the Chinese brands making forays into New York. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>MIKA MIZOBUCHI and HIROKO NISHIMURA<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NEW YORK &#8212; Chinese brands are gaining traction with thrifty young consumers in the U.S. as inflation creates a tailwind for businesses competing on price, even in areas once led by Japanese companies like sushi and character merchandise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer Pop Mart readies NYC flagship store while Luckin moves into former Starbucks shops Labubu seller Pop Mart,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[25685,21665,116074,73583,75,84,83,9,24,63,63115,2919,618],"class_list":["post-306683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-brands","tag-chinese","tag-inflation-hit","tag-labubu","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-takes","tag-target","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}