#Laogao E-commerce News# [October 18 E-commerce Evening News Brief] Alibaba invested 2 billion yuan in liquor e-commerce in 1919, becoming its second largest shareholder; JD Logistics CEO: JD Logistics has started personal express delivery business; Tmall Double 11 experience red envelopes: store pre-return red envelopes + surprise red envelopes; Tmall has released another Double 11 tip: "Evaluation threat" can be dealt with quickly; 19 new policies in Beijing have developed convenience stores, and one community has two convenience stores...
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1. Alibaba invested 2 billion yuan in liquor e-commerce in 1919, becoming its second largest shareholder
This afternoon, Yijiuyijiu Liquor Platform Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 1919), a liquor e-commerce company listed on the New Third Board, issued an announcement stating that it recently received a strategic investment of 2 billion yuan from Alibaba Group, with Alibaba holding about 29% of the shares, becoming the second largest shareholder in 1919. According to the announcement, after the completion of this round of C financing, the valuation of 1919 will reach approximately RMB 7 billion. Founded in 2006, 1919 is currently the largest wine and beverage sales platform in China. (36Kr)
2. JD Logistics CEO: JD Logistics has started personal express delivery business
According to news on October 18, JD Logistics CEO Wang Zhenhui said that JD Logistics has started personal express delivery business in September this year. Starting today, various express delivery services will be carried out in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. We hope to bring truly high-quality express delivery services to hundreds of millions of consumers through services. In the future, more products with same-day arrivals and discounted prices will be launched in more cities, as well as various express delivery services with Jingzunda as the business model. (E-commerce News)
3. Tmall Double 11 experience red envelope: store pre-return red envelope + surprise red envelope
On October 17, Tmall released the "2018 Double Eleven Logistics Experience Red Envelope Rules" announcement today. It is reported that the red envelope distribution types are divided into 10 yuan "shop pre-sale red envelope" and 5 yuan "surprise red envelope". The red envelopes obtained by users participating in this event will be valid from the time of distribution to 23:59:59 on December 31, 2018. (Tmall rules)
4. Beijing's 19 new policies develop convenience stores, one community with two convenience stores
According to October 18, today, the Beijing Municipal Commerce Commission and seven other departments issued 19 new measures to further promote the development of convenience stores. Residential projects are required to reserve space for convenience store formats of 10 to 20 square meters per thousand people. The maximum subsidy for new stores is 5 million yuan. Beijing will take about three years to make the number of chain convenience stores in the city reach more than 6,000. In principle, each community is equipped with 2 chain convenience stores to achieve full coverage of urban communities. (Chuangyebang)
5. Tmall will release Double 11 tips again: "Evaluation threat" can be dealt with quickly
According to October 18, today, Tmall released the Double 11 tips again, this time, targeting "evaluation threats", adding the rights and interests of merchants to deal with the fast. After having this right, the merchant initiated an evaluation complaint of "using evaluation threats" type. The complained evaluation will be immediately not displayed on the front desk, so that the merchant can complete self-rescue as soon as possible when encountering malicious negative reviews.
It is reported that the evaluation threatening to deal with the rights quickly will be open to merchants for the 2018 Double 11 official event before November 11. It is understood that this interest is only open to some merchants. Merchants who take and pass the certification exam for rights and use advertising to quickly process rights can gain benefits. (Yibang Power)
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6. 2018 World Payment Report: Cashless payments in the United States, third in China
According to October 18, the "2018 World Payment Report" was released a few days ago. Data shows that in terms of the total number of cashless payments during the statistical period, the United States ranked first with 148.5 billion times, the euro zone ranked second with 74.5 billion times, and China ranked third with 48 billion times. The report pointed out that China completed 48 billion non-cash transactions in 2016, an increase of 25.8% from the previous year. China ranks second among large economies, second only to Russia. (E-commerce News)
7. Alibaba cooperates with "black pocket" to target new retail sales in tourism channels
On October 18, Tmall New Retail recently announced a strategic cooperation with the smart hardware sales platform "Black Pocket", which 36Kr has previously reported many times. Dozens of offline experience stores in Black Pocket will be connected to Tmall iStore smart store technology and become a model store for Tmall's new retail smart store. At present, Black Pocket has established 23 direct stores and 130 joint stores in important travel channels such as airports, high-speed rail stations, and core business districts, and has become an important smart hardware retailer in the tourism channel. (E-commerce News)
8. Li Qian of the Internet Finance Association: Received 170,000 online reports in two years
On October 18, at the "2018 Hangzhou Bay Forum", Li Qian, Director of Public Affairs of the China Internet Finance Association, said that in the early days of the establishment of the Internet Finance Association, it established a reporting information platform for China Internet Finance in accordance with the requirements of the State Council. "It has been operating for almost two years, and a total of 170,000 of them have been received. 150,000 of them have been transferred to the regulatory authorities, which is quite a large amount. It is mainly focused on violent debt collection and the issue of customer privacy protection, which accounts for 84%." (36Kr)
Cross-border e-commerce
9. eBay sued Amazon for using illegal means to poach sellers
On October 18, according to foreign media reports, auction website eBay filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the US retail giant of using illegal means to poach its sellers. In the complaint, eBay said Amazon's representatives abused eBay's internal email system to contact sellers, which violated market policy.
Amazon declined to comment on the case. Earlier, eBay wrote to Amazon, asking for the termination of the event. Amazon has said it is investigating the allegations. (E-commerce News)
10. The United States announced its withdrawal from the UPU Union's cross-border direct mail cost will increase
On October 18, on October 17, US time, the White House announced that the United States will start the procedure to withdraw from the Universal Postal Union from now on. This move may have an important impact on cross-border e-commerce parcels sent to American consumers through postal channels. (Yibang Power)
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