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Costco in Taiwan
(
US chain
hypermarket
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Bloomberg, 2021-5-24:
Auchan
Retail is considering selling its stake
( 65% stake in the retail locations) in
a group of RT-Mart-branded stores in
Taiwan and is seeking $300 million to
$400 million。bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/auchan-said-to-weigh-asia-exit-in-400-million-taiwan-stake-sale
According to United Daily and Ettoday,
Auchan (歐尚)
opened its first market in Taiwan in
1997, till now RT-Mart has 5,500
employees,
the potential buyers may interested in
the
merger and acquisition
include
Far Eastern group、 Paxmart 、Family
Mart、Momo 、B&Q.
udn.com/news/story/6811/5482054
, finance.ettoday.net/news/2041061
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● focustaiwan.tw/business/202110230010 2021-10-23
PX Mart's acquisition of RT-Mart
could worry Carrefour: economist
A deal for Taiwanese supermarket chain PX Mart to acquire hypermarket operator
RT-Mart could pose big challenges for Carrefour as the acquisition will help PX
Mart extend its reach to the hypermarket business, according to an economist.
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Ben &
Jerry's
ice
cream imported from the US are
still wrapped with
lots of frosts at Oct. 7,
2021 (pic. below), same as
Haagen Dazs ice scream in
2020 and 2019.
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pic.: RT Mart Taipei was redecorated and
reopened with brand-new look, are they
only working on surface ?
Those world famous brand Haagen Dazs ice scream
are still wrapped with
lots of frosts (due
to
broken
refrigerator
!?).
12-27-2020 11:25am |
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pic.:
RT-Mart in Taipei city - famous brand Haagen Dazs
ice
scream and yogurt
were covered by lots of frosts
due to broken
refrigerator
icebox
or bad
work efficiency
for operation to
defrost those. 12-14-2019
ps: too high or
too low temperature of icebox or refrigerator
could affect food taste and flavour, even
crystallize sugar and fat ...
How's RT-mart's ice-cream and yogurt ? you can
try it !
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The Beijing News (《新京报》),
International
Finance News
(国际金融报),
2021-8-16, Sina
Finance,
shenzhen special zone daily
(深圳特区报)
2021-8-17:
RT-Mart JiNan branch grinds stinky overnight meat to be
sausage and dumpling filling, washes and rinse those meats smell but not too
stinky to sell with special price in the next day. Some media
comment this as " sad to exchange morality for money", particularly, RT-Mart is
such a widely-known, high market-share hypermarket, but trys every efforts in
deceiving customers.
finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing/gsnews/2021-08-16/doc-ikqcfncc3237745.shtml
finance.sina.com.cn/review/2021-08-17/doc-ikqciyzm1873959.shtml
RT-mart in Taipei did
similar, but not too serious, things. Those overnight tuna pieces were
sold with special prices, the color on fresh fish pieces and special-price fish
pieces are different ─
dark red vs.
dark brown .
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pic.:
RT-mart in Taipei (Sept. 2021) sold 'overnight' fishes with special price,
although not expired, the color looks darker
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pic.: Some of RT-mart's
banana are lower-quality ones, 2021-9-3 |
● <The
New York Times> , 2-27-2018:
"Toilet
Paper Shortage Strikes Taiwan Amid Pricing Panic"
... "The run on
toilet paper highlights the high price sensitivity of the Taiwanese market,
where wages have stagnated for years while housing prices have gone up."
The court of Taiwan found out RT Mart is the one
starting to send out a fake message ―
imminent price increases
as its promotion tactics to
mislead Taiwanese consumers to
rush to stores to stock up on the household staple... This abnormal
movements in market prices led to some other companies working together to
unfairly drive up prices, and the imbalance of supply and demand of toilet
paper. RT Mart received penalty fine NT$3.5 million which is the
fourth issue till 2018. French
Auchan holds largest shareholding ratio of RT Mart, Taiwan's Ruentex Group
second about 30 %.
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pic.: No.1 "comment RT-mart
Taiwan" on Google,
2021-10-7,
2021-9-22, 2021-8-19, "comment
Taiwan RT-Mart" on Google,
2021-10-7, 2021-9-22,
2021-7-27,
1-24-2021, 12-22-2020
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pic. left: No.1 comment
Taiwan RT-Mart on Bing,
2021-10-7,
2021-9-22, 2021-8-19, 2021-7-27,
1-23-2021, 11-27-2020; pic. right:
No.1 comment RT-Mart Taiwan on US Yahoo
and Yahoo Taiwan,
2021-10-7,
2021-9-22, 2021-8-19, 2021-7-27,
1-23-2021, 11-27-2020
pic. left: No.1 comment RT-Mart
on Google, 2021-10-7, 2021-9-22, 2021-8-19, 2021-7-28, 2021-4-28,
1-24-2021,
12-27-2020, 11-26-2020 (Chinese version); pic.
right: No.1 at 2021-10-7,
2021-9-22,
2021-8-19, 2021-4-27, 12-4-2020
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pic.:
RT Mart made
Taiwanese consumers
to rush to stores
to stock up on the household staple.
CTS news:
https://news.cts.com.tw/cts/life/2018...
http://news.cts.com.tw/
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pic. above: CTS news
(華視新聞):
Toilet Paper Shortage made Taiwanese angry !
pic. left: FTV news reported RT Mart
announced
imminent price
increases
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI1GWVwLFX4
https://www.ftvnews.com.tw/AMP/News_Amp.aspx?id=2018314W0005 |
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pic. :
penalty fine |
pic. :
other companies working together to unfairly
drive up prices |
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RT Mart's another unforgivable mistake is
selling poisonous (leucomalachite
green)
soft-shell turtles once again one year after
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found out
Carcinogen
in
its turtles
by inspection.
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To deal with CovID-19
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Dec. 13, 2020: In RT Mart (中崙)，Thermal
imaging temperature
equipment at entrance,
no free sample for customers to try.
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Next
TV news (壹新聞), Dec. 13, 2020: Costco provides free sample for
customers to try,
part of customers did not properly wear mask after eating sample.
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TVBS , 8-7-2020: found no Thermal
imaging temperature
equipment
at
entrance,
some advices : transparent board should be installed to separate
customers in eating area
tw.news.yahoo.com/作法不-家樂福停部分試吃-好市多撤熱像儀-124054497.html
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pic.: Hyper-markets' preventive measure comparison: Carrefour
cancels part of free samples，
Fe-amart (愛買)、PXmart
(全聯) still offer free samples to eat /
TVBS,
8-7-2020
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United daily (聯合報).
3-15-2018
RT Mart jacks up
prices of tissue paper by fake news, got NT3.5 million fine penalty (公平會)
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Apple Daily, headline news (蘋果日報) 4-2017
The Heran TV sold by RT-Mart exploded,
the judge concluded RT-Mart also need to pay the customer's loss...
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CTV
news (中視新聞), 12-11-2016
Shocks !! eyewitness !
Some
suspect nuclear
contaminated food from Japan's nuclear disaster area
were found in
RT-Mart
's
freezers.
Taiwan has not lifted food ban for four Japanese
nuclear-polluted cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay3NVT7x6eI
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pic. :
RT-Mart (大潤發)
imported nuclear contaminated
food |
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The United Daily
(聯合報) 12-12-2016 2:30
https://udn.com/news/story/10582/2163315
RT-Mart
off
shelf, Yoshinoya(吉野家) apologized /
RT-Mart
declared
some red Natto were
off shelf，other
5 types of red Natto
produced by 太冠 were also off-shelf ，Taiwanese
consumers can return their goods in case of worries
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pic. left:
Apple Daily, CTV news : poisonous shrimps in RT
Mart
pic. right:
CTV (中視新聞) : fried pie by disguised oil was
found in RT Mart
(大潤發)
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Taipei Times
5-27-2016
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/05/27/2003647215
A random inspection by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) earlier this month found 10 of
36 oatmeal products tested contained pesticide
residues exceeding legal levels, including Quaker
Oats products, The 10 were found to have
glyphosate (pesticide) residue levels between 0.1
parts per million (ppm) and 1.8ppm, “Old
Fashioned Quaker Oats” and “Quaker Quick 1-minute
Oats” sold at RT-Mart (大潤發), Carrefour Taiwan
(家樂福), Costco Wholesale Corp, “Coach’s Oats”
sold at RT-Mart, “Bob’s Red Mill Instant Rolled
Oats” sold at Pacific Sogo Department Stores Co
(太平洋崇光百貨)...
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The China Times
(中國時報), 11-19-2015
http://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20151119002462-260401
Food safety is unsafe again !
RT-Mart
's braised
food
failed to pass
health inspections,
its
braised chicken-duck (「雞同鴨掌」)
were
examined and found the content of
Escherichia coli
(桿菌)
exceeding the
standard amount.
If consumers have those zymad
/
pathogen
exceeding the
standard,
may cause
Vomit、diarrhea、running
a fever, or
even
septicemia
in serious cases。
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ETTOday 8-27-2015
http://health.ettoday.net/news/556042
RT-Mart
's (大潤發安平店) pig-ear (豬耳朵)
failed to pass
health inspections
- Escherichia coli ( 大腸桿菌)
were
found.
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The
United Daily
(聯合報) , 1-27-2016
Shrimps violated regulations were found in
RT-Mart
, Welcome, etc.
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Apple Daily News ,
12-1-2016
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20161201/1001797/
Food safety crisis again ! Some enterprises
(政豐,福柴流通,南北流) with MOA official
attestation
are suspected of providing
hypermarkets
such as
RT-Mart
and 愛買 etc with food - first off
eliminating expired,
mouldy,
rotten, decayed
five cereals,
then killing moth;
insects, worms
by toxic chemicals GASTOXIN (「磷化鋁」), eventually
illegally modifying the manufacture-date, and
advertising
those black-heart food with
international
attestation。
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The Liberty Times
(自由時報)
2012-2-13
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Taipei government inspected random-chosen US
and Australia beef samples and found 2
samples in
RT-Mart
and
Carrefour
(neihu) of them with
Ractopamine（瘦肉精萊克多巴胺）.
ps: Chinese version - 台北市衛生局: 有2件美國牛肉檢出，分別為大潤發內湖店的美國冷藏安格斯牛肋條、家樂福內湖店的美國牛條。
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The China Times
(中國時報),
10-12-2016
http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20161012000056-260202
67％ of
RT-Mart branches in China are
located in third-tier
and fourth-tier cities (三、四線城)，only
26％ are in metropolis
and more developed cities, this is different
from strategy of Carrefour(家樂福)、Walmart(沃爾瑪)
in China。
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RT
Mart, Costco sold beef products containing banned drugs
Jan. 15,
2011 19:15pm,
by <CTS>,
Taiwan
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Taiwanese government found Costco and RT-mart sold beef/steaks containing residue of banned chemical stuff ― Paylean,
lean-meat-enhancing drugs (belong
to B-agonist, i.e., Ractopamine, Clenbuterol, etc ).
Taiwanese health authorities ordered Costco and RT-mart to
remove all remaining beef products (that tested positive for Paylean) from shelves, but Costco ( 6 stores/branches ) had already sold out almost all
of those beef/steaks .
Why can those beef be imported to Taiwan ? Taiwan's
government confessed they didn't check every box.
How can people tell which is dangerous beef/steak? The
answer is you can't tell just by their look.
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banned-drug beef news by media
banned
drugs
in Costco |
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<Taipei Times> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011
3 beef products were found leanness drugs
...RT-mart with a reading of 0.64 ppb, ... COSTCO ... 1.46 ppb and 2.84
ppb. (Costco is about 3 times the test-value of RT-mart)
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<China Times> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011
3
out of 11 randomly selected sampling in regular check were found
lean-meat-enhancing drugs,
Such a high ratio (nearly 30%) scares Taiwanese ― "where's
eating safety in Taiwan?" ...... Taiwanese Department of Health didn't order to remove
remaining beef products with banned drugs as soon as they informed the
public of the issue, and DOH has no idea about the source even till next
day noon ...
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<Liberty Times> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011
◎ Headline of Life News : Banned drugs in
beef probably had already been eaten by consumers/customers.
◎ Taiwan's Department of Health declared again and again .... but if DOH
had not made such simple chemical tests, none to mention to make comparatively
complicated tests (e.g.,
普立昂變性蛋白) ....
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<United Daily News> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011
◎ Europe ( same as Taiwan ) bans beef
products containing
lean-meat-enhancing
drugs.
◎ Headline of Focus edition : Costco and RT Mart removed all
banned drugs beef from shelves.
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<TVBS> Taiwan
(headquarter in Hong Kong) ,
Jan 15, 2011 9:00 ~
The US sold beef products without banned drugs to Europe, but not to
Taiwan.
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<the China Post> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011
Tests confirmed banned drugs in US beef, AIT
urges Taiwan to allow ractopamine in meat legally.
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<Apple Daily News> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011
Headline of Prime news : US beef products in
Costco, RT-mart contain Paylean.
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<the China Times> Taiwan, Jan 21, 2011
Taiwan's law was ignored again and again .... it's too much !
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<ETTV>
(channel 57, 9:00 ~ ) Taiwan, Jan 20, 2011
160+ countries banned Paylean, US allows minor Paylean, but
American only eat meat, Taiwanese eat every part of them (liver, heart, etc
organs...), the rest part
contains banned drugs more than 20 times than meat itself... (ps: That's
the difference !)
(banned drugs in beef may result in Palpitation etc, and even serious
heart diseases)
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