Festival consumption finds an outlet

SHANGHAI: Many people who received an overabundance of gifts for Spring Festival, or prepared too many presents, are rushing to shift their goods, often online.

"The holidays have long been viewed, from the perspective of money and goods, as a time of excess. It always seems like too much every year," said Shen Qing, who received a dozen boxes of fruit as gifts.

"I don't think my family can finish them all although we are eating as much as we can. So I have to sell them online and at a favorable price before they go bad," she said.