2015年CRI Shopping Festival Has More Global Sellers

 

For this year's shopping extravaganza, Alibaba has added a new theme, imported goods.

Goods from around the world are being featured in Tmall ads, including the top 25 leading chain-store brands in the world.

That list includes Germany's Metro¹, the U.K.'s Sainsbury's and Costco from the United States, among others.

Exotic imported items available range from kiwi fruit and fresh lobsters² to diapers and cosmetics³.

Chu Jia with Alibaba's PR unit says the rise in the number of foreign sellers has made this year's Single's Day promotion⁴ more global than ever.

"The most notable change this year is globalization. More than 5-thousand brands from 25 different countries and regions are taking part in the sales promotions⁵. The number of international vendors⁶ has reached a record high this year."

Alibaba says the record of imported goods sales from last year's Single's Day was broken less than 2-minutes past midnight.

At the same time, Alibaba's rivals are also trying to rake in profits from Single's Day.

SFBest is subsidiary of Chinese express delivery giant SF Express.

It mainly sells imported foodstuffs⁷.

Song Xin, SFBest's manager, says they have seen a sharp rise in daily sales since this year's promotions first began.

"Our promotion period lasts from Nov 3rd to the 12th, with priority given to raw and fresh food. Sales during the period are expected to rise by about 180 percent from the same period of last month, and double from the same period of last year."

Observers are suggesting the growing sale of imported goods this year is partly the result of the massive tariff⁸ cuts the Chinese government has been bringing in, which has significantly lowered prices on imported products.

Cao Lei with the China E-commerce Research Center says the growth in cross-border purchases is going to help the overall development of e-commerce in China.

"Sellers from around the world and cross-border trade have opened the period of so-called mass consumption 3.0 in China. Consumption 1.0 featured customer-to-customer business on platforms like Taobao.com. Consumption 2.0 marked the rise in the popularity of business-to-customer sales through sites like Tmall and JD.com. Now, with the coming of international sellers, Consumption 3.0 has arrived."

It's expected China is going to overtake the U.S. to become the world's biggest retail⁹ market in 2018, with retail volume growth expected to grow by nearly 9-percent a year in the next two years.

One survey is suggesting people using the Internet to make their purchases this Singles' Day are going to spend more than 17-hundred yuan each this year.

This would be a 22-percent increase compared to how much the average person spent last year while shopping online during Single's Day.

For CRI, I'm Luo Wen.

1 metro   

n.地铁；adj.大都市的；(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国，主要经营零售)

参考例句：

• Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗？
• The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。

2 lobsters   

龙虾( lobster的名词复数 )； 龙虾肉

参考例句：

• I have no idea about how to prepare those cuttlefish and lobsters. 我对如何烹调那些乌贼和龙虾毫无概念。
• She sold me a couple of live lobsters. 她卖了几只活龙虾给我。

3 cosmetics   

n.化妆品

参考例句：

• We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
• Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。

4 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。

5 promotions   

促进( promotion的名词复数 )； 提升； 推广； 宣传

参考例句：

• All services or promotions must have an appeal and wide application. 所有服务或促销工作都必须具有吸引力和广泛的适用性。
• He promptly directed the highest promotions and decorations for General MacArthur. 他授予麦克阿瑟将军以最高的官阶和勋奖。

6 vendors   

n.摊贩( vendor的名词复数 )；小贩；（房屋等的）卖主；卖方

参考例句：

• The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
• At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时，界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

7 foodstuffs   

食物，食品( foodstuff的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Imports of foodstuffs accounted for a small proportion of total imports. 食物进口仅占总进口额的一小部份。
• Many basic foodstuffs, such as bread and milk, are tax-free. 许多基本食物如牛奶和面包是免税的。

8 tariff   

n.关税，税率；(旅馆、饭店等)价目表，收费表

参考例句：

• There is a very high tariff on jewelry.宝石类的关税率很高。
• The government is going to lower the tariff on importing cars.政府打算降低进口汽车的关税。

9 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。