Evening News: Taobao announced new progress in aging-friendly: online shopping and buying medicines; JD.com: In the first three quarters of 2021, the online shopping sales of elderly users increased by 4.8 times year-on-year; eBay lowered the transaction fee rate of all auto and motorcycle parts categories in the US site; AliExpress released a notice on the replacement address of Cainiao's official overseas warehouse; Forbes 2021 Global Best Employers List: Amazon and Huawei are among the top ten...
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1. Taobao announced new progress in aging-friendly: launching the function of buying medicine bottles online
According to October 14, today is the Double Ninth Festival, Taobao announced new progress in aging-friendly. In the latest version before Double 11, Taobao App has added a new function of buying medicine bottles. The elderly can quickly search for the medicine they want to buy by taking photos through Taobao. The relevant search page for drugs also provides safe medication tips for drug use to help the elderly quickly understand the purpose of the drug. It is understood that recently, Taobao also announced that the latest version of its App has officially launched the "Elder Mode". The information structure of Taobao's homepage has been simplified and fonts are enlarged, and other interface fonts have also been enlarged. (E-commerce News)
2. JD.com: The online shopping sales of elderly users increased by 4.8 times year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2021
From the supply side, the number of elderly-applicable products increased by 33% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2021, and sales increased by 73% year-on-year. Among the elderly’s products, the number of clothing and underwear products accounts for 51%, while the number of elderly products such as food and beverage, nutritional health care, sports and outdoors is less than 10%. At the same time, the number of health service products increased by more than 10 times year-on-year, and the number of pharmaceutical and nutritional health products increased by more than 1 times year-on-year. (E-commerce News)
3. ByteDance’s “Heart Takeaway” mini program has been approved for registration
According to news on October 14, Tianyan Check information showed that Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.'s "Xindong Takeaway Mini Program Software" was registered and approved, with the registration number 2021SR1481161 and the approval date was October 11, 2021. According to a report from Tech Planet in July this year, ByteDance's Douyin has set up a team for the takeaway business and conducted internal testing on the Douyin App. The business is called "Xindong Takeaway", and its slogan is "Xindong Takeaway, Eat What You Love". (E-commerce News)
4. State Post Bureau: In 2020, express delivery companies served nearly 700 million users per day
According to October 14, today, the State Post Bureau held a regular press conference for the fourth quarter of 2021. Hou Yanbo, spokesperson of the State Post Bureau, introduced that in 2020, the annual postal business revenue reached 1103.78 billion yuan, more than triple from 2010; the express delivery business revenue reached 879.54 billion yuan, 15 times that of 2010. In 2020, the average daily number of users of express delivery companies served by nearly 700 million users, which has become an important driving force for promoting consumption upgrading and an important link to strengthen industrial ties. In 2020, full coverage of postal business places and townships will be achieved, and the coverage rate of express township outlets will reach 98%. (E-commerce News)
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5. Forbes 2021 Global Best Employers List: Amazon and Huawei are among the top ten
According to the news on October 14, Forbes' 2021 Global Best Employers List was released a few days ago, with Huawei, Tencent and JD ranked among the top three Chinese companies. According to the overall list, Huawei ranks 8th, Tencent ranks 45th, JD.com ranks 82nd on the list, Alibaba ranks 169th, ByteDance ranks 367th, Baidu ranks 424th, and Xiaomi ranks 643rd. It is understood that the list consists of 750 companies with the highest scores. German companies account for 91, with 66 companies in Greater China following. The top 5 on the list are Samsung Electronics, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple. (E-commerce News)
6. Zhilian Recruitment Report: Women account for a higher proportion of migrant talents born after 1995
On October 14, Zhilian Recruitment and Zeping Macro released the report "Attraction Ranking of Post-95 Talents in China's Cities Post-95 Talents: 2021". The report pointed out that currently post-95 talents have the following characteristics and mobility trends in job hunting: From the perspective of gender, post-95 women account for a higher proportion of job hunting, post-95 women account for 49% and overall migrant talents, respectively, and the male-female ratio of overall migrant talents is 51:49, 57:43, and female women account for a higher proportion of post-95 migrant talents. (Penguin)
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7. eBay reduces the transaction fee rate of all auto and motorcycle parts categories in the US
According to the news on October 14, eBay issued an announcement today stating that in order to help sellers of auto and motorcycle parts categories obtain higher profits, the transaction fees of auto and motorcycle parts categories in the US station have been updated. For subscribers to eBay’s ordinary, boutique, super and enterprise-level stores, the transaction fee rate for the portion with sales exceeding $1,000 was reduced to 2.35%. The transaction fee for each item is calculated based on the total sales amount, including item costs and shipping costs, sales taxes and other applicable fees, and is charged 30 cents per order. It is understood that the previous sales of eBay auto and motorcycle parts store in the past was 11.7%. (E-commerce News)
8. Dunhuang.com will be offline in Guangdong Province's postal channels in Brazil, Australia and the United States.
The announcement shows that Dunhuang.com received a notice from the Provincial International Branch on October 12: All postal channels in Brazil, Australia and the United States are suspended. The recovery time is pending and will be notified separately. Europe can temporarily receive and send goods normally, and the United States can choose to ship the goods through "E-mail Shenzhen (P+Te)-HP" channel. It is reported that in response to the notice, Dunhuang.com has made corresponding adjustments to the channels involved in the above three countries. (E-commerce News)
9. AliExpress releases notice on the change address of the official overseas warehouse of the fiction France
According to October 14, AliExpress recently issued an announcement stating that Cainiao France’s official overseas warehouse will be moved to a new delivery and return address starting from October 13. It is understood that this time the warehouse address is adjusted, the warehouse will uniformly migrate merchant goods, and the delivery time will not be affected. In addition, for the goods currently on the way in the original warehouse, the warehouse will be transferred to the new warehouse after the original warehouse receives the goods, and there may be slight delays in the shelves. The original warehouse's stop receiving time is expected to be at the end of October. If there is any change, AliExpress will issue a notice in the future.
10. JD.com creates new overseas infrastructure to achieve 48-hour access to Chinese products worldwide
According to JD.com’s official Weibo account, JD.com’s new infrastructure for overseas travel has opened up the full links of air transportation, overseas warehousing and terminal delivery by building a global route network and local warehouse network. Chinese brands can arrive 48 hours a day when they go overseas. JD.com will start 11.11 this year. In order to help Chinese brands go overseas, JD.com currently provides four major solutions for merchants: one-stop global, JD.com self-operated, direct contract signing and local store opening. (E-commerce News)
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