Customers shop at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, a retail store that promotes itself as "the world's largest Christmas store", in Frankenmuth of Michigan state, the United States, Nov. 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Ping)
"We buy a good portion from China. We go directly to Chinese factories to order our items," said a salesroom manager at the store, which has about 2 million consumers each year.
DETROIT, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- In the run-up to Christmas, made-in-China items can be spotted everywhere at the retail store of Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland in the U.S. Midwestern state of Michigan.
"We buy a good portion from China. We go directly to Chinese factories to order our items," Cindy Baxter, a salesroom manager at the store, told Xinhua.
Customers shop at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, a retail store that promotes itself as "the world's largest Christmas store", in Frankenmuth of Michigan state, the United States, Nov. 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Ping)
Of all its items, some 30 percent to 40 percent were imported from China, and the others mainly came from domestic and European factories, she added.
This year, the prices have gone up for consumers amid trade tensions between the United States and China, and other countries, according to Baxter.
Customers pose for photos at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, a retail store that promotes itself as "the world's largest Christmas store", in Frankenmuth of Michigan state, the United States, Nov. 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Ping)
Established in 1945, the store promotes itself as the "world's largest Christmas store" and opens all year round. Each year about 2 million consumers purchase more than 2 million ornaments and over 125,000 light sets at the store.
A mother takes photos of her children with a 5-meter-high Santa Claus statue outside the Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, a retail store that promotes itself as "the world's largest Christmas store", in Frankenmuth of Michigan state, the United States, Nov. 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Ping)
This year its Christmas market, covering 7.35 acres, or equal to 5.5 football fields of space, offers over 50,000 trims and gifts, including some 8,000 styles of ornaments marked with "Merry Christmas" in more than 40 languages. ■