Viral Labubu craze is coming to S.F.'s Union Square with new Pop Mart store. Here's when
The store at 200 Powell St. will be the massively popular retailer's second in the city. A location in Stonestown Galleria draws lines every week for new product releases.
Thanks in part to social media and word of mouth, Labubu doll sales have boomed. The fluffy, rabbit-eared monsters have been called both 'ugly and cute.'
Pop Mart regularly releases new themed dolls and many are sold in 'blind boxes' with a range of possible dolls, including rare ones, which can sell for hundreds of dollars. Stonestown landlord Brookfield Properties confirmed two recent fights at Pop Mart amid crowding at the store. 'Our security deescalated the situations,' a spokesperson said, adding that Brookfield works with tenants to 'help control the line and ensure a peaceful environment.'
Pop Mart also sells branded toys from popular franchises including 'Harry Potter' and Disney. The Beijing-based company's sales doubled in 2014 to over 13 billion yuan ($1.8 billion).
The San Francisco Standard first reported the store opening.
Emily Bough, Pop Mart's head of intellectual property licensing, said last month that the Stonestown location 'has seen strong foot traffic, often with lines forming for key product drops and popular collections.'
Pop Mart builds on an Asian retail wave filling San Francisco's empty storefronts. Nintendo opened in May at the nearby Westin St. Francis, drawing lines for its Switch 2 release.
Pop Mart also has a store in Westfield Valley Fair.
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Krishna, the Hopkins economist, said questions remain about whether the Asian nations that just agreed to steep terms are able to ratify them politically due to the fact that Trump seems to have secured such lopsided terms. He also said that India — initially expected to be one of the first nations to ink a trade deal — faces notable trade-talk road bumps due to the potentially devastating effects on poor farmers who comprise about 45% of the labor force. 'It's a very sensitive sector for India. The Modi government itself, a few years ago, tried some reasonably market-oriented reforms in the agricultural sector.. and they were unable to push that through,' he said. 'That is an extremely challenging thing for the Indian government to manage politically,' Krishna said. 'You're talking about survival-level incomes for a large number of farmers. And to mess with that would be, again, politically challenging and even morally questionable from an Indian standpoint. 3 The US is currently charging China a 30% tariff rate on Chinese goods, while they are charging a 10% rate on American imports. AP Keep up with today's most important news Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update. Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters 'It really is a question of how much of a change the US wants in terms of reduction of protectionism and so on, and how much India's willing to give up,' he added. It's also unclear how talks with China will end — with the temporary deal set to expire in mid-August, though it may be extended. 'There's a real question whether we will make a deal with [China],' Ross said. 'It's hard for me to imagine that they're going to make very big concessions, and meanwhile, we're collecting very high tariffs. So it's not so clear to me that there's a big, compelling motive for President Trump to make a deal.' China also may be politically constrained by an upcoming Communist Party congress next month and a housing crash that has sapped the nation economically, Ross noted. Lawrence, of Harvard, said that the disruption of Trump's trade wars remains worrying for certain US industries — with carmakers General Motors and Stellantis reporting quarterly income slumps this week — and that he's skeptical of an ensuing boom in US manufacturing employment. 'I personally think it's damaging our economy … We have to be competitive to make sales abroad, not to bludgeon people through threats of tariffs. That's not the way you win friends, and it's also not the way you retain customers,' he said. But Lawrence noted that Trump's delays in implementing 'reciprocal' tariffs initially announced on April 2 likely make them more palatable for the American public and less stinging on their budgets. 'By dragging out the process, it's kind of like the famous boiling of the frog who doesn't quite notice it. [If the] net effect of these tariffs would be to raise the consumer price index by one percentage point or even two, that would be a huge increase, right? But if I told you it was take place over a couple of years, it is going to work out to half a point, or less a fraction each month. Are you going to notice it itself?' he said. 'From the standpoint of, 'How do you want to distribute the shocks?' I think… whether it's negotiating strategy or it's dithering or it's intuition, it actually serves to cushion the blow.'
