What we're trying to do is to aggregate the buying power of our clients and turn that into extra value.

Price, price, price. We're looking at value instead of price and trying to offer good value to a broader range of people coming into stores.

We're still trying to understand how much value we're getting for that.

We're trying to bring some value-added things to our customers to give them something other distributors can't give them.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power,