Online shopping among South Korean consumers posted a double-digit growth in 2015 as people increasingly use mobile phones in transactions of goods, a government report said on Tuesday.
As Chinese increasingly turn to the Internet for shopping, it's appropriate that many lawsuits over their purchases are now being handled entirely online.
A National Retail Federation survey on Sunday found that more people shopped online than in stores during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend, a sign of how quickly and deeply American shopping habits have changed.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Thursday that it will create another online shopping event in the next two months to tap further into rural consumption.
Smartphone in hand, Tibetan villager Zhoima stayed up late on Tuesday, waiting for the start of the 24-hour online shopping extravaganza known in China as Singles' Day.
An online shopping holiday that originated on the Chinese mainland has spread to Taiwan, with intense media coverage and major shopping websites launching major sales.
A blast triggered by a suspected bomb hit a shopping mall on the outskirts of Jakarta on Thursday, but there was no report of casualties.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army is building a military-version of Taobao, China's largest online shopping website, in an effort to cut costs and improve efficiency in procurement.
The year 2014 saw continued growth of tax-free shopping around the world, with shoppers from the Chinese mainland being the biggest spending group, it was reported here Wednesday.
The Kwangbok shopping complex, located in downtown Pyongyang, offered promotions on Monday in memory of the Dec. 15 visit by late top leader Kim Jong Il to the supermarket three years ago.
The online buying fiesta on this year's Nov. 11, also China's Singles' Day, smashed records, with e-commerce giant Alibaba ringing up sales of over 5 billion yuan, thanks to the world's biggest online retail sales day.
Li Zhe, a college student in east China's Nanjing City, has compiled a wish list for "Singles Day" on Tuesday, a holiday that has become China's busiest online shopping day.
The Shanghai resort that houses the first Disneyland on the Chinese mainland will add a luxury shopping compound next to the theme park to tap the consumption potential of visitors, the resort's operator said on Monday.
The Shanghai resort that houses the first Disneyland on the Chinese mainland will add a luxury shopping compound next to the theme park to tap the consumption potential of visitors, the resort's operator said on Monday.
Four people have been confirmed dead and 35 others injured after a fire triggered by a natural gas explosion broke out Thursday evening in a shopping mall in Luzhou City, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
At least one person killed and 26 others critically injured Tuesday after the roof of an under-construction shopping mall collapsed near South Africa's port city of Durban, police said.
Traditional retailers in China are having to be more creative in order to prevent e-commerce traders from foraying into their territory.
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