I really don't care about the sales, I don't purchase enough in a year to be VIP or whatever the tiers are now. This is interesting, though. Chanel seems to keep adding rules to customers. We'll see how long this lasts. It may be this year only. My SA told me back in May (?) that there would be no sales for USA "this year" because the inventory was so small. That was/is true. The boutique I most frequent had hardly any RTW from AW 2021, Cruise, or Summer 2022. The few pieces that they had, they only had 1 in 1 size. My SA could not even get anything from other stores. There were several leftover pieces from 2020 and 2021 to purchase. Surprising they would not want to clear out that old inventory. I would be interested to hear how they are doing in China. Hermes had a bigger than expected loss. The retail sales as a whole slumped unexpectedly, even after factoring in the lockdowns.