Lady’s shoes up 20% in price as production cost hiking
With spring coming various fashion lady’s shoes appear on market, the reporter of Shanxi Evening News made a survey on shoe market in Shanxi province, saying there are 20% of general rising in the shoe price for this spring season, some even close to one thousand yuan for per pair.
The reporter came to a department store on Liuxiang area and noticed that half of shoes with marked price are nearly one thousand yuan, shoes with fashion style sell at more than one thousand yuan. The reporter met a lady buyer who is buying the shoe and complaining that the price is almost beyond reach, the lady told reporter that price in last spring for lady’s shoe sold at 600 to 800 yuan for per pair, now you see they are all over 800 yuan and most of them sold at one thousand yuan more or less.
Production costs growing are blamed for retail price hiking, according to a shoe producer, the leather price rose at 20% in these two consecutive years, coupled with labor costs surging. While the salesmen explained that fashion shoes for ladies are made from high quality of leather and accessories, they cost more in processing, design and materials to met the demand on Personality and fashion trend.
Source: CLIA