China’s Singles Day – 11.11.2015 – the biggest shopping festival in the world, will no doubt once again break international eCommerce records this Wednesday. But while watching numbers tick astronomically higher is exciting, retailers should be paying…
There are just days to go before Alibaba Group holds its 11.11 Global Shopping Festival. Merchants are laying on stock and pre-packing popular products to ready them for shipment. Delivery companies are training hundreds of thousands of temporary workers…
FedEx Asia Pacific is predicting a record breaking Singles Day in Asia this November 11. “Due to the huge popularity of the occasion in recent years, China’s State Post Bureau anticipates that this year will see a maximum of 140 million packages being handled…
China’s two largest internet retailers have clashed in the run-up to Singles Day, the world’s biggest online sales day, on 11 November. Alibaba has been accused by its smaller rival JD.com of “forcing retailers” to promote their sales exclusively with its own…
Spend a while with Chinese language shoppers and also you shortly realise how totally different their purchasing habits are in contrast with these of Westerners. As an American who has been dwelling in China for greater than 10 years, I’ve come to understand…