China e-commerce
On July 29, 2026, Pupu Supermarket (朴朴超市), one of China’s largest regional grocery chains with roughly 400 dark stores across ten-plus cities, quietly began listing a handful of Fuzhou locations on Taobao Shangou (淘宝闪购), Alibaba’s instant-delivery layer inside Taobao and Tmall. According to TMTPost, the rollout is explicitly a trial, with plans to cover all […]
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China e-commerce
Foreign brands weighing up China e-commerce usually land on the same question sooner or later: Tmall or Taobao. The two platforms sit under the same Alibaba roof, share a search bar and a logistics network, and get lumped together in casual conversation. For a brand deciding where to open shop, though, they are not really […]
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China e-commerce
A Tmall store that opens quietly stays quiet. Traffic does not arrive because the store exists. It arrives because a brand pulls it in from several directions at once, and because the store is built to convert what shows up. This guide is for brands that already have a store live and are wondering why […]
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China e-commerce
JD Worldwide is JD.com’s cross-border channel. It lets a foreign company sell into China from stock held outside the mainland, or from a bonded warehouse in a free trade zone, without setting up a Chinese legal entity. The goods clear as personal imports for the buyer. The brand keeps its overseas company as the contracting […]
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