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DFI navigates ‘hardest’ market China as 7-Eleven stores profit despite online price wars

Source
South China Morning Post - Business
Source link
https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3363400/dfi-navigates-hardest-market-china-7-eleven-stores-profit-despite-online-price-wars
Published
2026-08-09 23:00:09
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-13 07:33:49
Category
Procurement & Supply Chain News
Geography
China
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

For international retailers like DFI Retail Group, which operates 7-Eleven and Maxim’s in 12 global markets, mainland China is a tough market to crack given its “unsustainable” online subsidies, according to an executive. “I think customers in China still have a very value-focused, careful use of their money [approach], and they still have a little bit of an unrealistic view as to what pricing should be,” said Scott Price, chief executive of the Asian retail giant, in a recent interview. “I...

Procurement Relevance Gate

FAIL — score 7.0/100 — evaluated 2026-08-13 07:33:49
Only geographic exposure matched — no substantive content indicator, so this cannot pass alone.
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

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