#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on April 6]

Morning news: Popular Chinese stocks closed down on Tuesday and generally fell Dingdong Maicai rose by nearly 46% against the market; JD.com revised the silent account management rules to take effect on April 8; Carrefour WeChat mini program launched the "community single-purchase" business; AliExpress sellers sold goods to Germany must comply with the requirements of the German EPR system; UPS and Jumia cooperated to expand the African e-commerce express network...

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1. Popular Chinese stocks closed down on Tuesday and fell by Dingdong Maicai rose by nearly 46% against the market

According to news on April 6, popular Chinese stocks generally fell on Tuesday, and fresh food e-commerce stocks strengthened. In addition, Youxin fell more than 8% to US$0.928, with a total market value of US$367 million; Dada Group fell more than 6% to US$9.61, with a total market value of US$2.229 billion; Alibaba, Pinduoduo, Mogujie, and BOSS Direct Recruitment fell more than 5%. Among them, Alibaba reported US$111, with a total market value of US$300.911 billion. US stocks closed down on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 280.70 points, or 0.80%, to 34,641.18 points; the Nasdaq fell 328.39 points, or 2.26%, to 14,204.17 points; the S&P 500 fell 57.52 points, or 1.26%, to 4,525.12 points. (E-commerce News)

2. Carrefour WeChat mini program launches "community single purchase" business

According to April 6, starting from April 3, Carrefour WeChat mini program will launch the community order-based purchase business. The order-based purchase time is from 0 a.m. to 12 noon on the same day and will be delivered to the community gate before 21 a.m. on the same day. A relevant person in charge of Carrefour said that except for some stores that have been suspended as required by the government, all stores in other Shanghai areas will successively open community order purchase services. (E-commerce News)

3. JD.com revises the Silent Account Management Rules to Be Effective on April 8

According to April 5, JD.com recently revised the management rules for silent account. The revision of this rule will be announced on March 30, 2022 and will take effect as early as April 8, 2022. It is reported that after the change of the silent account management rules, the following situations are met. In order to ensure the security of the user's account, JD.com has the right to temporarily unbind the account and mobile phone number: the user's registered account has not logged into the JD.com platform for three consecutive months, including but not limited to related websites and clients. (E-commerce News)

4. Tmall Health: Pediatric-related medications increased by more than 90% month-on-month in March

According to reports on April 4, Tmall Health data showed that since the beginning of spring in March, the demand for seasonal symptoms and chronic diseases has risen nationwide, and many consumers choose to purchase drugs in advance. Among them, the sales of drugs related to skin allergies, rhinitis, and asthma increased by nearly 50% month-on-month in March, and the nasal washer used for auxiliary treatment increased by more than 40% month-on-month. The number of purchasers of the drug "Lupatadine Fumarate" for treating allergic rhinitis has increased by 24 times. Tmall Health data also show that sales of chronic disease-related drugs have increased significantly, mainly concentrated in the cardiovascular, nerve, endocrine system and liver and gallbladder medications. (E-commerce News)

Internet news

5. Tongcheng Travel Qingming Travel Consumption Data Report: Local Travel Become the Mainstream

According to April 5, Tongcheng Travel recently released the "2022 Qingming Holiday Travel Consumption Data Report". Tongcheng Travel Big Data shows that local tours have become the main choice for tourists during this Qingming Festival holiday. Among the hotel orders during the Qingming Festival in 2022, local hotel orders account for 67%. Among the platform's car use orders, local travel orders account for as high as 91.3%. At the same time, the time period for people to book air tickets, hotels, scenic spots and other tourism products has been further shortened. The proportion of users who book air tickets within one week in advance during the Qingming Festival holiday exceeded 70%, and the average hotel reservation period was shortened to 1.6 days, while the proportion of scenic spot tickets booked on the same day exceeded 80%. (E-commerce News)

6. Meituan launched the "community group meal" service and has covered more than 5,000 Shanghai communities.

According to the report on April 5, Meituan has recently launched the "community group meal" service, through centralized ordering, centralized production and centralized delivery, so that more Shanghai citizens can eat various catering delicacies without leaving home. At present, community group meals have been opened to all administrative areas in Shanghai, covering a total of more than 5,000 communities and 5 million citizens. Users open the Meituan Takeaway App, click to enter the "Community Group Meal" entrance on the left, and after selecting their community, they can book a meal for 6 days. It is worth noting that citizens in the same community can deliver meals for more than 30 orders during the same meal order period, and refund immediately if there is no need. (E-commerce News)

Cross-border information

7. AliExpress sellers must comply with the requirements of the German EPR system for selling goods to Germany.

According to the news on April 5, AliExpress platform recently issued an announcement that the compliance requirements for extending producer responsibilities have been implemented in EU countries one after another. Starting from 0:00 on July 1, 2022, Berlin time, Germany (East 1), sellers will sell goods to Germany through AliExpress, and they need to confirm whether the seller's products meet the requirements of Germany's EPR system. It should be noted that the packaging compliance requirements include the product's own packaging and logistics packaging materials. Sellers who operate physical goods must register and package; if the store sells electrical and electronic equipment products containing batteries, both electrical and electronic equipment and batteries must register. (E-commerce News)

8. Amazon's internal communications app will prohibit sending words such as "salary", "complaints" and other vocabulary

According to internal documents obtained by The Intercept, Amazon plans to add content filters to the internal communications app and will prohibit words that reflect the company's working conditions or related to organizing a trade union. Sources said Amazon executives met in November to discuss creating a social media platform dedicated to staff. Dave Clark, head of Amazon’s global consumer business, suggested that the app offers a one-to-one social experience, just like the dating app Bumble, rather than a large social center like Facebook. (E-commerce News)

9. UPS and Jumia cooperate to expand the African e-commerce express network

On April 5th, logistics and parcel delivery company UPS will use Jumia's network in Africa to expand its presence on the continent, with the new partnership enabling it to use the last mile delivery infrastructure of local e-commerce companies. This means that UPS customers can collect or send packages at Jumia's sites in Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria. Currently, the two sides are planning to expand this partnership to Ghana and the Ivory Coast, as well as other markets in Africa thereafter. (E-commerce News)

10. Beijing launched a pilot program of cross-border e-commerce imported pharmaceutical products with a total sales of nearly 260 million yuan.

As of February this year, the pilot work of imported pharmaceutical products in Beijing has sold nearly 260 million yuan in total. In addition, in order to safeguard consumers' rights and interests, the Beijing cross-border e-commerce imported pharmaceutical products pilot program also encourages pilot enterprises such as JD Health to establish a complete cross-border pharmaceutical product traceability system and responsibility system. For disputes arising from cross-border pharmaceutical product quality issues, the pilot enterprises will "compensate first" consumers. (E-commerce News)