Miss Chen, a Hong Kong native, lives in Shenzhen and travels to and from the two places several times a week. I only started buying daily necessities in Hong Kong in the last six months: "I used to buy more skin care products, but now the prices in the Mainland are climbing to new heights every month, so I buy some salt, oil and paper towels every time I go back to Hong Kong recently."

At CR Vanguard Supermarket in Sheung Shui, the reporter saw that Vida offered a discount of 12 rolls of three-layer toilet paper for only HK$ 26.9. Another 12 roll of three-layer toilet paper costs only HK$ 3 1.9, while Guangzhou Trust-Mart needs RMB 35.5 to buy it. Counting the exchange rate, the difference is quite obvious.

The army of "toilet paper hoarding" in Shenzhen is also active in major pharmacies in Hong Kong. "The price of our pharmacy is generally 5 yuan cheaper than that of the supermarket. Experienced mainlanders rarely go to the supermarket to buy roll paper. " Han Hui Chinese and Western Medicine Pharmacy in Sheung Shui keeps the best-selling roll paper, shower gel, sanitary napkins and toothpaste in the most conspicuous place at the door, but only 200 roll paper of Jieya Zhenbao 12 costs HK$ 30! The clerk said that he had seen the same toilet paper in Shenzhen supermarket, which was 20%-30% more expensive than Hong Kong. "We Hong Kong people are surprised at how such a low income in the Mainland can afford such high-priced toilet paper."

According to the reporter's investigation, mainland customers buy the most roll paper, almost a big bag of people, followed by washing products, cooking oil, soy sauce and oyster sauce. A Guangzhou teacher's milk said that every time you buy three or four thousand yuan, you can save at least seven or eight hundred yuan. Excluding the toll, I earned six or seven hundred dollars, which is worth it!

"RMB is very valuable in Hong Kong"

"It's not that our prices are low, but that inflation in Chinese mainland is too high," Mr. Chen, who runs a wholesale business in Tuen Mun, told reporters. "In fact, prices in Hong Kong are also rising. A month ago, a dish of rice rolls 18 yuan was sold in the rice rolls store downstairs, and now it has risen to 19 yuan. The cubic cakes baked by Maxim were in 8.5 yuan a few days ago, and now they are all in 9 yuan. However, prices in the Mainland are rising much faster than ours. "

Mr. Chen said that many mainland tourists have come to Hong Kong to shop recently. "I heard that there are still people coming to buy food." He believes that Hong Kong has always been a "shopping paradise", and the retail industry in Chinese mainland has to levy 17% retail tax and consumption tax, while Hong Kong does not, so "it is not surprising that the price is lower than that in Chinese mainland".

"Isn't it strange to come and make soy sauce?" The reporter asked. "No one will buy soy sauce specially, but there are quite a few brought back," Mr. Chen explained. "The main problem here is the exchange rate. In the past two years, the RMB has greatly appreciated, while the Hong Kong dollar has been pegged to the US dollar and depreciated sharply. Now 100 RMB can be exchanged for nearly 1 17 Hong Kong dollars. The renminbi is very valuable in Hong Kong, and mainlanders come to Hong Kong to buy everything. "

Mr. Chen told reporters that after every store in Hong Kong closed down, it must be a pharmacy that reopened. "Do we Hong Kong people really need so many pharmacies? Of course not. Mainland tourists are the main consumers of pharmacies in Hong Kong. When you look at what pharmacies can buy, you will know what mainland tourists come to buy, including activated oil, paper towels and shower gel. "

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