Morning News: JD Logistics and ZTO have become Douyin's epidemic logistics guarantee partners; Meituan bought medicines in Shanghai to launch the "Chronic Disease Care Plan"; Ele.me's "Spring-Fresh Eight Fresh" orders accounted for nearly 90% of the orders placed by post-90s and post-00s; Lanzhou New District's first cross-border e-commerce "9710" business was successfully implemented; eBay launched the freight update API...
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1. JD Logistics and ZTO have become Douyin's epidemic logistics guarantee partners
According to Beijing Business Daily, Douyin recently launched the "express delivery guarantee" for the epidemic. JD Logistics and ZTO Express have signed a guarantee agreement with Douyin, promising to provide logistics fulfillment services to merchants from March 19 to April 30. It is understood that if the orders collected in the above-mentioned express company promised to collect in the pick-up area, such as false shipment penalty due to the long-term update of the logistics trajectory, the compensation amount shall be borne by the corresponding express company. (E-commerce News)
2. Meituan Buys Medicine Shanghai launches "Chronic Disease Care Plan"
On March 21, the reporter learned from Meituan on March 20 that since the outbreak of this round of epidemic, the order volume of Shanghai chronic disease drugs on the Meituan Pharmaceutical Buying App platform has been increasing. From March 1 to March 20, 2022 alone, the overall order for chronic disease medication increased by nearly 50%, of which orders for hypertensive drugs rose by 176%, and orders for diabetes drugs rose by 143%. The orders for scarce drugs also increased significantly compared with before the epidemic. (E-commerce News)
3. Insider: Luo Yonghao pays off his debts as early as next month
According to the news on March 21, according to convention, Luo Yonghao made a live broadcast in the "Luo Yonghao" live broadcast room on the evening of March 19, but such a day is about to end. A friend insider revealed that Luo Yonghao will completely repay his debts as early as next month, and he will officially announce that he will leave and return to the technology industry when he is "debt-free". "The direction of entry is related to VR, and it is still to C." But in the future, Luo Yonghao will still make friends and make guest live broadcasts, "may have dozens of shows every year", which is equivalent to making friends and "signing artists", with the "signing fee" about 100 million yuan. (E-commerce News)
4. Ele.me’s “Spring-Fresh Eight Fresh” has nearly 90% of the orders placed by the post-90s and post-00s.
According to reports on March 20, Ele.me data showed that among the "Spring-style Eight Fresh" orders, "post-90s" consumers accounted for nearly 70%, becoming the absolute main consumer force; the consumption power of the "post-00s" group also increased rapidly, accounting for nearly 20%, and the growth of related orders in the past two years has nearly doubled. The "post-00s" prefer cherry blossoms, pineapple and green buns to purchase cherry blossoms, pineapple and green buns year by year, becoming the most active group in the consumption of "Food Fresh Spring". (E-commerce News)
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5. Convenience store chain brand "Daily Gudu" received angel round financing of tens of millions of yuan
According to March 21, 36Kr exclusively learned that the new membership chain brand "Daily Gudu" recently completed the angel round of RMB tens of millions. The capital did not disclose it and the capital was the exclusive financial advisor. This round of funds will be mainly used for system development and store expansion. (36Kr)
6. Kuaishou continues to carry out special governance actions to combat vulgar and hype behaviors
According to March 20, in order to purify the community environment and create a clean and upright community atmosphere, the platform will continue to carry out a special governance action to "knock down on vulgar hype behaviors" from March 1. It is reported that during the special governance process, Kuaishou found that some emotional anchors fabricated miserable experiences during the process, interpreting circumstances that violated ethics and even suspected of illegal and irregularities. Such content seriously undermines the platform's content ecosystem and violates the platform's value orientation. Relevant anchors have been severely punished. At the same time, the platform will continue to increase its efforts to deal with such illegal content. (Yibang Power)
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7. The first cross-border e-commerce "9710" business in Lanzhou New District was successfully implemented
On March 21, the first cross-border e-commerce "9710" business in Lanzhou New District was successfully implemented recently, marking that all companies engaged in cross-border e-commerce in Lanzhou New District can conduct cross-border e-commerce B2B direct export business through the "9710" customs supervision model. As of the end of February, according to the feedback from customs declaration, Lanzhou New District achieved an import and export trade volume of 1.06 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 70%; of which the comprehensive bonded zone was 1.01 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 65.2%. (E-commerce News)
8. Amazon Seattle Fresh Store seeks to obtain ILFI zero carbon certification
March 20th news, Amazon recently announced in a blog post that its fresh food store in Seattle is seeking to obtain "zero carbon certification" from the International Institute for Future Life. The company said the store has undergone more than ten upgrades. Compared to the average grocery store, Amazon Fresh stores in Seattle are expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 185 tons per year. Amazon claims it can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 38 metric tons per year compared to traditional refrigeration systems. (E-commerce News)
9. eBay online shipping fee update API
On March 20, eBay recently launched the Rate Table API. Sellers can contact their service providers or developers to connect with the API, and update the international shipping price list according to the seller's business model. It is reported that the API provides sellers with an advanced method to manage international freight price lists, supporting applications on eight major eBay sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Canada, France, Italy and Spain. Using the above method, sellers can: retrieve the freight table specified by the freight table ID; quickly update the freight information of the freight table specified by the freight table ID. (E-commerce News)
10. AliExpress upgrades Colombian rookie DDP line service
On March 20, the AliExpress platform issued an announcement that in order to alleviate the pressure on merchants and improve the Colombian consumer experience, Cainiao will upgrade the services of some routes. For the Cainiao Special Line-standard route sent to Colombia, Cainiao will provide DDP services for merchants to declare packages with a payment of 0-200 US dollars from 12:00 on April 8. (E-commerce News)
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