{"id":24735,"date":"2020-11-13T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/chinese-retailer-faces-backlash-after-calling-large-clothing-sizes-rotten"},"modified":"2020-11-13T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:50:06","slug":"chinese-retailer-faces-backlash-after-calling-large-clothing-sizes-rotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24735","title":{"rendered":"Chinese retailer faces backlash after calling large clothing sizes &#8216;rotten&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Customers \u2018shocked\u2019 by descriptions of larger items in RT-Mart, prompting apology for \u2018inappropriate\u2019 sign<\/p>\n<p>A major Chinese retailer has been forced to apologise after one of its stores classified small clothing sizes as \u201cbeautiful\u201d and large sizes as \u201crotten\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The signs inside the RT-Mart superstore depicted a size chart with small to medium sizes described as \u201cslim\u201d and \u201cbeautiful\u201d, with larger sizes as \u201crotten\u201d and \u201chorrible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/chinese-retailer-faces-backlash-after-calling-large-clothing-sizes-rotten\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customers \u2018shocked\u2019 by descriptions of larger items in RT-Mart, prompting apology for \u2018inappropriate\u2019 signA major Chinese retailer has been forced to apologise after one of its stores classified small clothing sizes as \u201cbeautiful\u201d and large sizes as \u201cr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1750,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-jack-ma","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24771,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions\/24771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}