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China's Singles' Day online shopping bonanza's sales slow as shoppers opt for more affordable deals

BANGKOK (AP) — Sales during China's largest online shopping festival, Singles' Day, jumped almost 18% from a year earlier but the pace of growth slowed as bargain hunters opted for more affordable ...
NBC New York

China's Singles Day shopping festival is more than halfway over. Here's how consumers are spending

BEIJING — Early indicators of China's biggest shopping event of the year reveal a pickup in select categories amid expectations of relatively modest growth in overall sales. "What we're seeing so far, ...
Daily Journal

China’s ‘Singles’ Day’ shopping festival a gauge of Beijing’s effort to get consumers to spend more

HONG KONG (AP) — Alice Zhang, a 29-year-old marketer in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, has spent only roughly half what she did last year during the “Singles’ Day” online shopping festival, ...
The Economist

China develops a divorced dating scene

POSTERITY HAS not been kind to Widow Luo. Bereaved as a young mother in the late Qing dynasty, her refusal to remarry earned her the emperor’s praise and a zhenjie paifang—a carved stone archway ...