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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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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.
● 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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RT-Mart in Taipei city - famous brand Haagen Dazs
ice
scream and yogurt
were covered by lots of frosts
due to broken
refrigerator
icebox
ps: too high or
too low temperature of icebox or refrigerator
could affect food taste and flavour, even
crystallize sugar and fat ...
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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.: 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, 2022-2-7, 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, among top ranks at 2022-2-7 ; pic. right: No.1 comment RT-Mart Taiwan on US Yahoo , 2022-2-7, 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, 2022-2-7, 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 2022-2-6, 2021-10-7,
2021-9-22,
2021-8-19, 2021-4-27, 12-4-2020
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pic. above: CTS news (華視新聞): Toilet Paper Shortage made Taiwanese angry !
https://www.ftvnews.com.tw/AMP/News_Amp.aspx?id=2018314W0005 |
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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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pic. left:
RT Mart's soft-shell turtles contains illegal
leucomalachite
green (孔雀綠)
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One year later, Gov. once
again found out Carcinogen,
illegal leucomalachite green (還原型孔雀綠)
in
RT Mart's soft-shell turtles/
The China Times (中國時報) https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20160121003190-260405?chdtv |
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To deal with CovID-19 ● Dec. 13, 2020: In RT Mart (中崙)，Thermal imaging temperature equipment at entrance, no free sample for customers to try. ● 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.
● 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 /
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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.
freezer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay3NVT7x6eI
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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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● 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.
● The United Daily (聯合報) , 1-27-2016
Shrimps violated regulations were found in RT-Mart , Welcome, etc.
● 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。
● The Liberty Times (自由時報) 2012-2-13 :
● 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-
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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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★ <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) ★ <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 ... ★ <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) .... ★ <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. ★ <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. ★ <the China Post> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011 Tests confirmed banned drugs in US beef, AIT urges Taiwan to allow ractopamine in meat legally. ★ <Apple Daily News> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011 Headline of Prime news : US beef products in Costco, RT-mart contain Paylean. ★ <the China Times> Taiwan, Jan 21, 2011 Taiwan's law was ignored again and again .... it's too much ! ★ <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
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