"During a recession, consumer spending tends to become polarized," explains Jason M.T. Tsai, special assistant to the chairman in the Breeze Development Group. In Japan, for instance, where the economy has been in a rut for twelve years now, even as there has been continual price-slashing at the low end, there has been steady growth at the top end of the consumer market.
「不景氣時代，消費趨勢會呈現兩極化，」微風廣場的經營團隊，以貿易起家的三僑實業公司董事長特別助理蔡明澤指出，像日本，經濟低迷已經十二年了，可是在價格不斷破壞、「百元商品」形成熱潮的同時，頂級精品市場還是穩定地成長。