Luxury stores play nice with Chinese professional shoppers they once frowned upon, as brands’ sales and profits plummet

Expensively dressed Chinese professional shoppers, or daigou, were once a regular sight in the glossy boutiques of New Bond Street and on the more rarefied floors of Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Selfridges in London.With Chinese social-media app WeChat open in one hand, and a designer handbag or a piece of jewellery in the other, these London-based shoppers analysed, described and bought luxury items – watches, jewellery, clothes and cosmetics – for customers in China. Before the coronavirus…

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