bargain-priced end

[unpakwon]

Please help me understand the following in bold.

In other cases, the softest targets for Chinese piracy are struggling small businesses and value-conscious consumers at the bargain-priced end of the retail network---easy prey for a large cadre of unscrupulous middle men.

Thank you.

[Shakespeare's brother]

HI.

Value conscious: a consumer who is interested only in getting value for money.

Bargain-priced end: the cheapest range of goods, more popular with a consumer who wishes to spend only what he needs to and no more.

SB

[unpakwon]

Thank you for the answer.

Could I paraphrase the part like "the consumers who seek to purchase quality products at the cheapest prices"?

[Shakespeare's brother]

That would be a perfect way of saying it.

SB