Western fashion brands are conspicuous by their absence at a gleaming new shopping center on the outskirts of Moscow – and customers say they scarcely miss them.
“I am neutral on this, whether we have them or not,” shopper Alexandra Moskunova told Reuters at the mall in Khovrino. “I can happily do without them.”
But on the capital’s most popular shopping streets, the closed stores of luxury Western brands stand out. “We only had what we’d already bought in stock,” she said. “We’ve had a lot of people. We’re the only place you can buy Chanel items.” Viktor Chernykh, projects director at MR Group, the mall’s owner, said some tenants had had problems.
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