Beijing stores bans all Chinese customers for being 'too annoying'

Here's a marketing strategy for you: ban all people from the country that you're working in, because they're "too annoying," and "often try on lots of clothes but end up buying nothing."

A shop on Beijing's Yabao Lu has gained some online infamy for doing just that: they posted a sign reading, "Chinese not admitted - staff excluded." Because, annoying they may be, shops do need employees.

The SCMP managed to track down the shop's owners, who said:

"We didn't want to hang up the sign in the first place and lead people to think we Chinese look down upon ourselves. But some Chinese customers are too annoying," a salesperson told the paper, adding that the wholesale store mainly sells to foreigners.

Ah yes, they "didn't want to hang up the sign," but those damn annoying Chinese customers made them do it. It was out of their hands at that point, really.

The sign is reminiscent of the "No Japanese, No Phillippines, No Vietnamese and [No] Dog" sign that went viral last year during the peak of China and its neighbors' disputes over Pacific islands.

Online reactions to the sign have been predictably unkind, with many hitting a refrain of, "If you hate Chinese people so much, just leave."

We encourage all foreigners reading this to pay the shop a visit, act annoyingly, try on a bunch of clothes and then leave without purchasing anything.