Shoppers look to net bargains

Online shoppers were rushing to buy tasty seafood treats for last Sunday's Middle Autumn Festival.

But Wang Liming, an accountant in Beijing, started tucking in early when a delivery of prime Japanese salmon arrived just 24 hours after she ordered it on the shopping site, Tmall.com, which is owned by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

"It was still frozen when it arrived. Even the ice cubes were rock hard," Wang, 26, said, adding that her consignment was shipped from a Beijing suburb warehouse.