E-commerce Evening News on September 3

"#Laogao E-commerce News# [E-commerce Evening News on September 3]" Suning Retail Cloud: Connecting to the group purchase business, SKU has exceeded 100 million; Tmall Medical Beauty has released a "renewal plan" with the goal of achieving 300% GMV growth; Google officially plans to push the official version of Android 10.0 to users on September 3; WeChat payment QR code was accused of infringement, Tencent: QR code is an existing technology; it is caught in public opinion storm again Zara issued a statement on the closure of business...

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1. Suning Retail Cloud: Connected to the group purchase business, SKU has exceeded 100 million

On September 3, Suning Retail Cloud Store uses the Internet marketing tool "cloud store" as a carrier to connect to Suning's group purchase supply chain system products, involving up to 56 million SKUs, covering 3C home appliances and non-electric products such as fresh food, home furnishings, mother and infant, alcohol and other non-electric products. According to official reports, as of the end of August, Suning Retail Cloud had nearly 3,900 stores nationwide, covering 31 provincial administrative regions across the country. After connecting to Suning’s group shopping system products through the “cloud store”, the retail cloud store SKU has exceeded 100 million. (E-commerce News)

2. Fenty Beauty has joined Tmall International for more than 50,000 fans on half a day

September 3rd news, today, American singer Rihanna's beauty brand Fenty Beauty has settled in Tmall International. This is the first stop for Fenty Beauty, a popular beauty brand under LVMH Group, to officially enter the Asian market. The two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation and start the Tmall Super Brand Day event on September 20. (Yibang Power)

3. Suibao Department Store cooperates with Alibaba to build a new business model brand: Hemali

Recently, Suibao Department Store revealed in its 2019 interim performance report that Alibaba may launch a new business model brand in Shenzhen next month: Hemali, which will be another new retail project after Hema and Suibao Department Store strategic cooperation. Suibao Department Store believes that this is a new retail solution that can eliminate the space constraints of traditional retail business models. In June last year, Suibao Department Store and Hema Technology entered into a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Accordingly, Suibao Department Store will cooperate with Hema Technology to transform Suibao Supermarket into Hema Fresh Supermarket in stages within two years from the effective date. (Europe)

4. Tmall Medical Beauty released a "renewal plan" with the goal of achieving 300% GMV growth

On September 3, Alibaba Health released the Tmall Medical Beauty "Renewal Plan" and established a Tmall Medical Beauty "Safe Beauty" alliance with many brand pharmaceutical companies and medical institutions. The "Renewal Plan" is mainly divided into the following parts: store renewal, entrance renewal, product renewal, scene renewal, and marketing renewal. Wang Yajun, senior director of Alibaba Health Consumption Medical Division, said, "Next, our goal is to grow 300% GMV, cover urban growth 100%, and plan to incubate 100 representatives of institutions with performance exceeding 10 million." (E-commerce News)

5. Aiku Inventory launches multilateral empowerment plan and releases global strategy

On September 3, at the 2019 global strategy press conference of Aikuan, a relevant person in charge of Aikuan said that in 2020, Aikuan's strategic map will be fully launched around the multilateral empowerment plan of "all channels, all categories, and all openness", it will iterate and optimize existing businesses, further improve the service capabilities of brands, distributors and consumers, and cooperate in depth with external retail service providers through comprehensive opening capabilities to jointly promote the development of the entire industry.

In terms of channels, Aikuan will accelerate its global layout, help domestic brands go overseas, and use goods that cannot be digested by the domestic market to meet the needs of overseas consumer markets. At the same time, in the fourth and fifth tier sinking markets, Aikuan will help brand merchants reach consumers in this market through offline stores, achieving efficient human-to-product matching and efficient circulation of goods. (Europe)

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6. Google officially plans to push the official version of Android 10.0 to users on September 3

According to September 3, some operators said that on September 3, Google will push the official Android 10.0 system to users. According to reports, the new Android 10.0 system has added native gesture navigation function, added dark mode, adaptive notification management, etc. (E-commerce News)

7. WeChat Pay QR code is sued for infringement. Tencent: QR code is existing technology

Weika Times Company believes that WeChat Pay infringes on its patent rights and requires Tencent, Tenpay and Fancl Eslite to compensate for all losses of 1 million yuan. Weika Times Company stated that the patents involved include the entire process of "scanning" QR code collection, background decoding, and final identification in mobile payment. This morning, during the trial of this case, Tencent said, "The collection, decoding and identification of QR codes are all existing technologies. It cannot be said that the fields are artificially divided in the patent, and it becomes the other party's unique protection scope." (Beijing Evening News)

8. WeChat transportation card is online in nearly 200 cities across the country

According to September 3, since the WeChat "Transportation Card" function was launched, it has been connected to nearly 200 cities across the country. In order to allow more users to enjoy the convenient experience brought by the new functions, starting from August, users who have launched WeChat Pay for the first time in some cities can receive instant discount coupons for rides, and swipe the code to ride as low as 1 cent, making travel not only "faster", but also more surprises. (E-commerce News)

9. Zara issued a statement on the closure of business again

On September 3, Zara's official Weibo account quickly issued a statement at 10 o'clock last night denied supporting the strike, and never made any remarks or committed any related acts, and emphasized that the brand advocates China's territorial sovereignty and integrity. Regarding netizens' doubts about the closure of Zara's store in Harbour City, Zara's official response explained that some employees were unable to arrive in time due to traffic reasons. (Duowei News Network)

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10. Zalando opens an offline pop-up store in Berlin to test offline second-hand trading model

Zalando has opened a new pop-up store Zircle in Berlin's Alexa shopping mall, which will sell clothing on the Zalando Wardrobe app. In recent years, Zalando's offline expansion momentum has not diminished, and this time it has even tried to deploy a second-hand trading model.

Zalando said the purpose of opening the pop-up store is to understand how to operate the second-hand market through offline channels and let clothing brands know what kind of products to provide consumers. Zalando emphasized that its main channel is still online, but in some cases it will also use online and offline channels for activities. (Hugo.com)

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