hong kong number of locations 300 stores 2015 area served hong kong mainland china macau owner a.s. watson group parent hutchison whampoa limited website http www.parknshop.com parknshop chinese ; pinyin b iji is one of the two largest supermarket chains in hong kong the other being wellcome . parknshop operates more than 300 outlets in hong kong macau and mainland china . the first parknshop store opened in stanley hong kong in 1973 . for a decade the store remained a local retailer until the mid 1980s when it began to expand outside hong kong . parknshop is a member of the a.s. watson group a wholly owned subsidiary of hutchison whampoa limited . contents 1 locations 1.1 hong kong 1.2 mainland china 2 generic products 3 history 3.1 labour outsourcing 3.2 proposed sale by hutchison 4 see also 5 notes 6 references 7 external links locations edit a parknshop superstore in marina square west a parknshop store in fu cheong estate sham shui po international by parknshop in the peak galleria fusion by parknshop in quarry bay hong kong edit parknshop has more than 300 stores and 9 000 employees in hong kong . 1 parknshop opened the first superstore fn 1 in hong kong in 1996 in whampoa garden 2 phase 12 with a floor space of 4 200 m . the first parknshop megastore fn 2 opened in 2002 in metro city tseung kwan o with a floor space of 6 700 m . a.s. watson group also operates a number of supermarkets under different brand names that target higher income consumers . there is one great supermarket located at pacific place one gourmet supermarket at leighton centre causeway bay and taste supermarkets at festival walk kowloon tong citygate tung chung stanley plaza stanley hopewell centre wan chai east point city hang hau tseung kwan o maritime square tsing yi olympian city 2 tai kok tsui metroplaza kwai fong kwai chung and tmtplaza tuen mun . in 2007 another brand international by parknshop was introduced at happy valley hong lok yuen united centre at admiralty and cyberport which specializes in organic foods . parknshop s higher income stores are billed as a lifestyle food stores and stock a large variety of imported goods as well as fresh fruit and vegetables and many nonfood items . the upmarket stores were launched in november 2004 when the existing 35 000 square foot 3 300 m2 parknshop store located at festival walk in kowloon tong was rebranded as taste . it is open daily from 7.00 am to midnight . mainland china edit in 1984 parknshop opened its first mainland china store in shekou the first foreign retailer to enter the mainland chinese market . the chain s first mainland superstore opened in 2000 and its first mainland megastore followed in 2001 in the tianhe district of guangzhou . there are now about 60 parknshop stores in northern and southern china including locations in guangzhou shenzhen dongguan and zhuhai . generic products edit parknshop sells products under generic brands both what it calls private label fn 3 and best buy fn 4 branding . their group of supermarkets also exclusively carries a variety of waitrose and groupe casino products from the uk and france respectively . history edit labour outsourcing edit in april 2005 the parknshop chain including the rebranded taste superstore in festival walk controversially dismissed 525 employees when the company outsourced the labour for its fresh foods counter ; most of the employees were dismissed just before the chinese new year in 2006 . the aggrieved employees included many low paid workers of longtime service . the employees union complained that although 90 % of the dismissed workers were rehired at the same position as before their wages were lowered some reportedly by as much as 44 % and their working hours were increased from 10 to 12 hours by the outsourcing subcontractor . the resulting average hourly rate was hk 18 . 3 proposed sale by hutchison edit in 2013 hutchison invited bids for the entire parknshop chain during a strategic review of the parknshop business for an expected price of us 3 billion to us 4 billion . the company received eight bids from china resources vanguard china hong kong wal mart stores us aeon japan woolworths australia and wesfarmers australia cp group thailand and sun art retail china . 4 however in october the company announced that it would retain ownership of the chain and focus on expanding in china . 5 see also edit city super wellcome supermarkets notes edit chinese ; pinyin ch oj gu ngch ng chinese ; pinyin g uw gu ngch ng chinese ; pinyin b i ji p i chinese ; pinyin ch o zh p i references edit company overview . retrieved 2007 06 30 . parknshop milestones wong ching april 2006 . parknshop outsourcing adds insult to injury in chinese . u beat magazine chinese university of hong kong . retrieved 2007 03 25 . eight bids received for li ka shing s parknshop scmp 17 august 2013 rpt hutchison drops plan to sell parknshop supermarkets business reuters . 20 oct 2013 external links edit wikimedia 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