Morning News: Taobao’s new buyers did not receive the goods and refund dispute rules gradually went online on August 9; the video account optimization window usage rules promote "small store" services; JD Logistics is located in the country’s first "suburban warehouse"; TikTok agreed to suspend the updating of the controversial advertising privacy policy in Europe; Jiangsu Province’s express delivery business volume in June reached 800 million pieces year-on-year increase of 4.2%...

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1. Popular Chinese stocks closed up and down on Wednesday
According to news on July 14, popular Chinese stocks closed in a mixed manner on Wednesday. Among them, Ctrip rose by more than 6%, New Oriental rose by nearly 5%, Onion Group rose by more than 4%, Best Group rose by 4%, JD.com and Vipshop rose by more than 2%, and Bilibili and Manbang rose by more than 1%. At the same time, Yixian E-commerce fell 27%, Miniso fell more than 3%, Dingdong Maicai fell nearly 3%, Daily Youxian fell more than 2%, and Xinyang fell more than 1%. (Global Market Report)
2. JD Logistics is located in the country's first "suburban warehouse"
On July 13, JD Logistics Chongqing Banan "Asia No. 1" intelligent logistics park won the plaque of Chongqing's "Central Urban Emergency Material Transfer Station", becoming the first "Suburban Warehouse" project to be implemented in the country. After the goods are shipped from the warehouse, they will be sent to 112 express delivery stations in various districts and counties in Chongqing, and will be delivered to every household by JD couriers, realizing "same-day delivery" in the central urban area of the main city and "next-day delivery" in remote suburban counties. During the previous epidemic, the shipments of the smart logistics park increased by more than 20% year-on-year, of which the average daily necessities such as grain, oil, rice, flour, mineral water, toilet paper, pet food, etc. exceeded 100,000 orders per day. (JD Logistics)
3. The disputed rules for Taobao’s new buyers not receiving goods are gradually launched on August 9th
According to July 13, Taobao today issued a notice on the dispute rules that new buyers did not receive refunds from goods. The announcement stated that in order to protect the rights and interests of buyers and sellers, maintain market order, and help everyone better resolve disputes in the process of commodity trading, Taobao plans to adjust the relevant dispute handling rules of Taobao platform. The change in the rules was announced on July 13, 2022 and will be gradually launched on August 9, 2022. (Taobao)
4. Douyin e-commerce manages the misplacement of fruit categories in the fresh food industry
According to July 13, today, Douyin e-commerce issued an announcement on the misplacement of designated fruit categories in the fresh food industry. It is understood that since the Douyin platform has recently received a lot of feedback on the misplaced fruit categories, such as misplaced the targeted access product "fresh durian" to non-targeted access categories such as "more fruits" and "liquid nitrogen/frozen durian", it has seriously disrupted the platform's operating order and greatly affected the user's shopping experience. If the merchant publishes it in violation of regulations, the platform will deal with it in accordance with the "Publish non-agranted products" rules in the "Merchant Violations Management Rules". (Tiktok E-commerce Learning Center)
5. Optimize the rules of the use of video accounts to promote the "small store" service
According to July 14, in order to optimize the user experience of video account windows, help video account window merchants and video account window experts operate in an orderly manner, and promote the healthy development of the platform's ecology, Video Account will launch the "Video Account Store" service on July 21, 2022, and gradually optimize the usage rules of video account windows.
Specific measures include: 1. Merchants that do not use the video number window function will only support merchants who register "Video Account Store" to use the video number window function from July 21, 2022. 2. Merchants who have used the video number window function must complete the registration of the "Video Account Store" before November 30, 2022 before they can continue to use the video number window function; starting from November 30, 2022, the "WeChat Store" will not be able to access the video number window. 3. This optimization will not affect the mini program merchants and video number window experts who use the "upgraded trading component" to continue to use the video number window function. (Yibang Power)
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6. Jiangsu Province's express delivery business volume reached 800 million pieces in June and increased by 4.2% year-on-year
July 13th news, today, the Jiangsu Provincial Postal Administration announced the operation of the postal industry in Jiangsu Province in June 2022. Data shows that from January to June, the business volume of express delivery service enterprises in Jiangsu Province reached 3.94 billion pieces, a year-on-year decrease of 0.7%; the business revenue reached 37.41 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.3%. In June, the business volume of express delivery service enterprises in Jiangsu Province reached 800 million pieces, a year-on-year increase of 4.2%; business revenue reached 7.55 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%. Data shows that from January to June, the total business volume of postal bank in Jiangsu Province reached 48.17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%; the industry's business revenue reached 50.95 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.8%. (E-commerce News)
7. Shaanxi's express delivery business volume in the first half of the year reached 479 million pieces and decreased by 3.56% year-on-year
On July 13, the Shaanxi Provincial Postal Administration today announced the operation of the postal industry in June 2022. Data shows that from January to June, the business volume of express delivery service enterprises in Shaanxi Province reached 479.7255 million pieces, a year-on-year decrease of 3.56%; business revenue reached 5.782 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.37%. Compared with the same period last year, from January to June, the proportion of express delivery volume in the same city in Shaanxi Province decreased by 4.29 percentage points, the proportion of express delivery volume in off-site increased by 4.42 percentage points, and the proportion of international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan decreased by 0.14 percentage points. (Shaanxi Provincial Postal Administration)
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8. TikTok agrees to suspend the update of controversial advertising privacy policy in Europe
On July 13, TikTok has agreed to suspend the updates originally scheduled for tomorrow due to controversy in Europe due to the update of the privacy policy. This means that the platform no longer requires users to be tracked to receive targeted ads. It has notified the Irish Data Protection Commission of TikTok for possible violations of EU data regulations. A DPC spokesman said TikTok has now agreed to suspend the implementation of changes so that DPC can conduct analysis. Meanwhile, the DPC has raised this issue with all other data regulators in the 27 EU member states. (E-commerce News)
9. AliExpress will adjust 7 logistics lines from China to Afghanistan
It is understood that from July 21, 2022, Western Time, starting from China, some logistics plans for Afghanistan, whose destination country/region of the relevant routes will be offline. Buyers cannot continue to choose the above routes when placing an order, but they can choose other logistics plans set by the merchant. Starting from July 28, 2022, Western Time, sellers will be unable to choose the logistics orders and statements for Afghanistan to be shipped by the country of creation. They need to choose other freight templates and logistics plans according to their own circumstances. (AliExpress Straw Hat)
10. Thrasio Amazon Prime Day Battle Report: Bedding has become the best sales category
According to the content released by the Amazon Brand Aggregator Thrasio official account, during the first day (July 12), more than 200 brands under Thrasio participated in the hot sale. It is reported that in the categories run by Thrasio, bedding has become the champion of category sales.
For this Prime Day, Thrasio has set up a "15 min team huddle" internally, that is, the team will hold a team meeting 15 minutes before the start and end of work every day. At the meeting, all members of Thrasio will mainly clarify the overall goals of Prime Day and predict and analyze the overall returns.
It is reported that Amazon's 2022 PrimeDay will be held from July 12 to 13. The number of sites covered by this membership day has reached 24, which is one of the more sites in previous members’ daily and middle-aged. (Yibang Power)
