Bargain hunters queue outside a Gucci store Wednesday on Shaanxi Road N in Shanghai. Gucci is offering discounts of as much as 50 percent at all branches in the city, prompting lines of shoppers. The sales started on Wednesday and are a normal end of season practice and unrelated to China’s decision to cut import taxes, a Gucci spokesman told Bloomberg News on Tuesday. The sale will continue until next month. (Dong Jun)
