#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Evening News on September 24]

Evening News: Pinduoduo and CCTV Finance launched the "Harvest Festival Special" live streaming event; JD.com launched one-hour online launch to start instant retail services for self-operated products; Kuaishou E-commerce's second fur festival officially started; Amazon will hold an Amazon Impulsa event to help Mexican small and medium-sized enterprises; Dunhuang.com adjusts some businesses during the 2021 National Day...

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1. JD.com data: Pink iPhone 13 buyers have become men in nearly six

      According to September 24, at 8 am today, iPhone 13 officially started sale. JD.com data shows that among the iPhone 13 series sold, nearly 60% of the pink iPhone 13 were purchased by male users, while female users accounted for only 40%. It is worth mentioning that Suning.com data shows that among the buyers of iPhone 13 series, men are three times that of women. At the same time, the big data for old-for-new transactions shows that iPhone 13 is the user's favorite new model. (E-commerce News)

2. Pinduoduo and CCTV Finance jointly launched the "Harvest Festival Special" live streaming event

      September 24th news, yesterday, the main venue of the 2021 China Farmers’ Harvest Festival officially opened. On that night, Pinduoduo linked CCTV’s “2021 China Farmers’ Harvest Festival Gala” and jointly launched the “Harvest Festival Special” live streaming and sales activity with CCTV Finance New Media, fully launching the “Sales for Our Old District” charity activity, continuing to help the agricultural products in the old district leave the village and enter the city. It is understood that when the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs launched the "2021 Golden Autumn Consumption Season", Pinduoduo launched a series of e-commerce agricultural assistance activities to promote direct connections to 850 million consumers in 11 provinces (cities) and agricultural production areas across the Yangtze River Economic Belt, helping farmers in various places increase their production and income. (E-commerce News)

3. The second Kuaishou E-commerce Fur Festival officially kicks off

      September 24th news, today, the second "Kuaishou Fur Festival" special event officially started. The event is themed "Buy Quality Fur on Kuaishou", and has linked several fur brand merchants to conduct large-scale live broadcasts. This year's Fur Festival started warm-up on September 22. Relevant data shows that nearly 10,000 fur merchants participated in this event, and a total of 41,000 fur-related works were uploaded on the topic tag page, with a total of more than 1 billion views. (E-commerce News)

4. JD.com launches instant retail service for self-operated products in one hour

      On September 24, JD.com announced today that starting this month, when Shenzhen consumers purchase products on the JD APP, they place orders with the two logos "self-operated" and "minute and hourly delivery" to experience the instant retail service delivered by one hour. It is worth noting that recently, JD.com’s self-operated instant retail project "Tianxuan" was officially launched, marking the pioneering of JD.com’s online self-operated instant retail services. (E-commerce News)

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5. 58.com: Taobao customer service becomes a post-90s job seeker to submit popular positions

      According to September 24, 58.com Recruitment Research Institute recently released a report on employment trends for job seekers of different ages, providing in-depth insight into the delivery status and salary status of job seekers to various industries and positions. Among the above three age groups, the number of delivery in transportation, warehousing and postal industries has all increased year-on-year, among which the post-80s generation had the largest increase, with an increase of 52%, the number of delivery in 1990s generation increased by 29.7% year-on-year, and the post-95s generation increased by 22.2% year-on-year. (E-commerce News)

6. Fliggy launched the "payment and compensation" service covering nearly 7,000 hotels

      According to September 24, recently, Fliggy APP launched a "payment and compensation" service for hotels for Philippine members. Members book activity products with the logo "Filipino membership, you will be compensated if you buy expensive" on the Fliggy APP. If you find that other specific platforms are at a lower price under the same conditions within 3 hours after booking, Fliggy promises to "pay expensive and you will be compensated if you buy expensive". Feizhou members can fill in the information at the "Apply for Compensation" entrance on the order details page. After the information is reviewed, you can get a double difference compensation within 15 working days of leaving the store. (E-commerce News)

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7. American grocery platform Albertsons and Firework launch video shopping

      September 24th news, American grocer Albertsons announced a partnership with short video startup Firework to use the Firework platform to plan and create short videos and live videos. The "sliding, shopping" technology allows consumers to interact with brand products directly through videos and increase customer participation. It is understood that the videos will be launched in October and cover short content such as recipe demonstrations, meal preparation tips, etc. In addition, Albertsons will also showcase behind-the-scenes food storage technology for customers. Firework said its short video and live streaming platforms connect more than 600 retailers, CPG companies, D2C brands, publishers and media purchasing agencies around the world, with more than 1 billion active users per month. (E-commerce News)

8. Amazon will host Amazon Impulsa event to help Mexican small and medium-sized enterprises

      September 24th news, recently, Amazon invited Mexican small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in its annual "Amazon Impulsa" event, aiming to help sellers interested in selling on Amazon to build online businesses and provide active Amazon sellers with key information to increase sales. It is understood that the event will be held online from October 13 to 14, 2021, and sellers can participate for free. The first day of the event will help new sellers understand Amazon sales, and the second day will help active sellers improve their business capabilities. According to reports, from October 20 to 21, in order to enhance the sales capabilities of small and medium-sized sellers, Amazon will also hold the "Amazon Accelerate" event in the United States. (E-commerce News)

9. French second-hand e-commerce platform Vestiaire Collective completed 178 million euros financing

      September 24th news, recently, French second-hand luxury goods Internet trading platform Vestiaire Collective announced that it has completed a new round of financing of 178 million euros, and the current valuation of the platform has reached US$1.7 billion. It is understood that Vestiaire Collective was founded during the 2008 financial crisis and is headquartered in Paris, France. Vestiaire Collective's global business volume has grown by more than 90% over the past 12 months, with orders in Asia growing by 150% and 100% in the United States, making the United States the largest market for the platform. It is worth noting that in March this year, Kering Group acquired 5% of the shares and board of directors' representatives. (NetEase News)

10. Dunhuang.com adjusts some businesses during the National Day 2021

      According to September 24, Dunhuang.com today issued a notice on some business adjustments during the 2021 National Day. The notice shows that during the National Day holiday in 2021, the business services of Dunhuang.com will be adjusted as follows: If the original shipment is from October 1 to October 7, 2021, it will be automatically postponed to October 8, 2021; due to the adjustment of bank business processing time, settlement of US dollars and RMB during the holiday period will be suspended, and normal will be restored from October 8; online customer service will still serve 15 hours during the National Day holiday, product review services will be carried out normally, dispute cases will be handled normally, and some cases will be handled delayed, and normal will be restored from October 8. (E-commerce News)