Retail
January 17, 2018
Any retailer with the capacity should be expanding into China. Image courtesy of Alibaba
By Danny Parisi
NEW YORK – In just the past few years, China has evolved from being the “factory of the world” to the consumer of the world, according to an executive from Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba.
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