E-commerce empowers expatriates to spend more
When I relocated from Mumbai to Beijing in September 2015, little did I realize not only is vegetarian food, including Indian cuisine, easy to find but e-stores in China sell Indian groceries and even rare Indian vegetables like drumsticks!
By then, I was already a registered user of a million online marketplaces and service providers in India. But nothing had prepared me for the wondrous world of Chinese e-shopping. I still feel I've explored only a strait in a vast ocean.
Every time I open the Taobao or JD app, I see there's some new feature or another. Its videos, colorful graphics, live streamed promotions remind me of the joke that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth, and after that, everything else was made in China. Fool-proof packaging and super-efficient logistics reinforce that feeling.
