{"id":133490,"date":"2025-07-26T10:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133490"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:35:29","slug":"cheap-chocolate-pie-has-middle-class-sams-club-members-in-china-up-in-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133490","title":{"rendered":"Cheap chocolate pie has middle-class Sam\u2019s Club members in China up in arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSam\u2019s Club, the US membership-only bulk retailer owned by Walmart, has long been seen as one of the foreign supermarkets most attuned to the needs of China\u2019s middle class.<br \/>\nEach year, millions of urban Chinese families pay a 260 yuan (US$36.28) annual fee in exchange for what they see as access to a globally curated, quality lifestyle &#8211; featuring products like Scotch whisky, Chilean dried prunes, and chilled beef from the United States and Australia.<br \/>\nThat selection has come to symbolise a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3319698\/how-did-chocolate-pie-offend-middle-class-sensibilities-sams-club-members-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSam\u2019s Club, the US membership-only bulk retailer owned by Walmart, has long been seen as one of the foreign supermarkets most attuned to the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}