E-commerce sales in China was over $1 trillion in 2017.
Alibaba paid about $6 billion to take control of China’s top supermarket chain and one of its biggest department-store franchises.
A Guangzhou-based startup called BingoBox has built a network of 300 fully automated convenience stores. The free-standing glass boxes, about half the size of a 7-Eleven, stock a similar assortment of merchandise, all of it labeled with RFID tags. Shoppers gain access by scanning a QR code displayed on the front of the store with the WeChat app.
BingoBox started in 2016 and has raised about $100 million from investors led by GGV Capital and Fosun Capital.
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