Online orders surge after big festival
By Yang Yijun and Ma Lie | China Daily | Updated: 2012-02-04 08:06
SHANGHAI / XI'AN - In the week following Spring Festival, online retailers and delivery services were overwhelmed by a flood of orders from customers unable to access certain virtual stores due to holiday closures.
Four employees in Shang Feike's store on Taobao, China's largest online shopping platform, had to work four hours of overtime a day to pack goods and send them by courier.
"We have had about 100 orders every day after the holiday, which is almost double our normal amount," said Shang, whose store sells skin care products and cosmetics.
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