Cotton Prices Skyrocketing, Cotton Fabric Playing "Thin"

　　 A citizen Miss Chen accidentally discovered that the thickness of her cotton sweater last year was much thinner than that of last year. It is understood that Ms. Chen's discovery is not a case. In the case of rising cotton prices, some Cotton autumn clothes have quietly played a negative role in avoiding the negative impact on sales because of the marked rise in prices. Slimming "

The public is puzzled: how does the pure cotton sweater become thinner?

Citizen Chen is very puzzled It was reflected that in a clothing store she frequented in downtown, she found that the price of the clothes was almost the same as that of last year, and she was ready to buy it. However, during the fitting process, she found that the thickness of her test clothes was not as good as that of last year. When she inquired the reason, the dress shop owner admitted, "although the cotton price has been rising, but the non brand clothing manufacturers dare not rush to raise the price because of fierce competition, so they have to use" reduce material "to offset the rising cost.

It is understood that many people who buy autumn clothes have the same feelings as Ms. Chen. The official responsible for the industrial and commercial bureau of Wen he said that there have been many consumer disputes arising from the thinness of some pure cotton products including cotton garments recently. Compared with the same period last year, such consumption disputes increased significantly. Because the commodities involved are all qualified products, the business sector can only mediate in dealing with such disputes.

Cotton prices are high and cotton fabrics are playing downsizing.

"As far as I know, in addition to human costs and rising prices, cotton prices have risen all the way, which is the main reason for the" downsizing "of cotton products. At present, the price of cotton has reached 25 thousand yuan / ton, an increase of nearly 80% compared with last year, reaching a new high in 11 years. In September alone, cotton transaction price rose from about 18 thousand yuan / ton at the beginning of the month to about 25 thousand yuan per ton, or nearly 40%. Ms. yuan, who runs the wholesale clothing business, revealed that "the market's hot cotton clothing such as T-shirts, underwear, sweater and so on, manufacturers have launched the" thickness "classification in the same clothing this year, and they have been finely divided. The T-shirts of the same style, such as those purchased at the same time, have a thickness of 4 grades. The price of the thinnest one is flat with the wholesale price of last year, but the clothes with such low density are simply not durable.

Ms. Zhang, who runs apparel online, also said that in the face of fierce competition in the clothing online shopping market, some sellers still have strong demand for low price purchases to attract consumption this year. For this reason, some garment manufacturers are trying to cater for such customer demand, producing the same autumn clothes with the same price last year.

Slimming is short-sighted and is open to question.

"This is actually a disguised increase in prices, the business practices are a bit filthy!" many people pointed out that although this practice is more subtle, but they still feel that they are "calculated" by manufacturers.

Respondents said that consumers are more sensitive to price increases. If the price increases brazenly, it is bound to cause resentment. Taking this relatively "mild" cost change, we can see that manufacturers are "painstaking." But relevant people said that this practice is open to question, at least not magnanimous, and it is still misleading or concealing to consumers.

"This practice can easily lead to a decrease in the price performance of the products, although the manufacturers may benefit in the short term, but in the long run, they will undoubtedly lose their credibility." Relevant people pointed out.