Wuhan ZARA All Stores Closed Fast Fashion Originator Also Want To Withdraw?

Reporters noted in December 30th that according to micro-blog's big V, "Wuhan is coming", "palm Wuhan", "sub life APP" and many other people recently broke the news. All the stores of Spanish fast fashion Zara in Wuhan have been closed recently. From the pictures taken, there are seals on the door. Some netizens guess that the "notice" posted by some stores may be related to fire inspection. Beijing Business Daily reporter verified.
Reporters to Zara official website query, temporarily unable to find Wuhan store information. Through map search, "Zara Wuhan" information shows that stores are closed. Reporters have made calls to Zara Han Street Wanda Plaza, central department store and clustered central store to verify that all of these store phone calls are unable to answer.
As of press release, Zara had not responded to the news at official website or Guan Wei.
There is no definite official explanation of why ZARA closes all the stores in Wuhan. However, there are many local netizens in micro-blog message speculation, may be related to the "fire check not pass". One netizen said that the notice outside IKEA store in Wuhan had been written to "shut down the door to transform".
For the above clues, Beijing Commercial Daily reporter called several shopping malls to verify the reasons. Among them, Wuhan Chu River Han street service desk staff said, "ZARA stores in decoration, the specific opening time is not yet determined."
Wuhan union center service desk staff told the Beijing Commercial Daily reporter that the ZARA store in the mall was upgrading the fire equipment and the opening time was uncertain. However, it said that the brand had retained the Wuhan ZARA Wanda Plaza chestnut shop to deal with the issue of refund, but the reporter called the Wanda Plaza chestnut lake shop did not receive a reply.
Beijing Business Daily reporter through the map and comment platform query ZARA Beijing area store information, is still in normal business condition.
Referring to the search platform data, ZARA has about 4 stores in Wuhan. The reason why a single city store has attracted so much attention is closely related to the fast fashion brand losing China in recent years.
In November this year, following New Look, Forever 21 and Topshop, Gap group announced that its sub brand Old Navy (the Old Navy) as its growth engine will be withdrawn from the Chinese market in 2020. Earlier in 2018, TOPSHOP shut down Tmall flagship store; in December, NewLook closed Chinese shops and Tmall flagship stores; in April of this year, Forever 21 announced its withdrawal from the Chinese market; in October of this year, Forever 21 filed for bankruptcy and withdrew from stores in China, Japan and other markets. The exit of many fast fashion brands is a sad thing to say.