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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by Taniwha on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:29PM (#17546338)
remember that much of Alibaba is essentially a front for lots of small companies - they don't do the shipping themselves
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by wenc on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:38AM (#17549618)
Oh I included that number to indicate the scale of orders that have to be handled by Alibaba's data systems -- I understand that they don't ship the packages themselves.

Also, I just read that as of 2017, there are 700mil internet users in China, 90% on mobile. The scale there is just staggering.

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