Will the rise of e-commerce and “showrooming” kill traditional retail? Brick and mortar retail once felt fairly brick-like. In mature markets, some of the department stores were more than 100 years old, and sometimes even looked a bit like castles. Later, malls and big box stores popped up, and created a whole new landscape, that […]
China’s E-commerce Consumers Wise-Up
Increasingly sophisticated online consumers are pushing China’s cyber retailers to the next level Just as clever marketers have whittled the meaning of Christmas down to the goods that are gifted on the 25th of December, festive days in China are quickly following suit. Singles Day—a celebration of bachelorhood on the 11th of November—seems to have […]
Invisible Hand Revealed: Games Firms Play
Why the price wars in Chinese e-commerce might end up becoming a race to the bottom for the companies involved. When you were a child, your parents might have warned you to be careful what games you play lest you get hurt. The same advice might be needed for some of China’s biggest retailers […]
E-tail versus retail: Can upstart company 360Buy succesfully compete with the two reigning giants of the appliance market?
When the top two Chinese home appliances retailers, Gome and Suning gained a third of the consumer market for the home appliance industry, they probably never considered the possibility of any potential threats from smaller appliance retailers with fewer resources. But over the past seven years, the domination of the appliance market by these two […]
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