Amazon Quits China Market

Re:Amazon Quits China Market by ajross on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:53PM (#19722233)

> Two day delivery is China is considered slow and nothing to be proud about.

Within Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou, I'm sure that's true. Can Alibaba get a package delivered to Tibet in two days? Really this is just expressing the fact that effectively all of China's industrialized economy is concentrated in three urban centers.

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Re:Amazon Quits China Market by intuitionist on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:02PM (#19722309)

Are you counting Shenzhen as part of Guangzhou? Surely it’s a center of the Chinese industrial economy.

And while they might not be industrial centers, there are tens of millions of middle-class Chinese in places like Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing who presumably order stuff online sometimes.

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Re:Amazon Quits China Market by ajross on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:16PM (#19722465)

I'm sure lots of people order stuff online, even in Tibet. I was asking for support for "two day shipping is no great shakes" upthread, which frankly I don't believe given the size of the country and the nature of its transportation grid.

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Re:Amazon Quits China Market by hurrdurr2 on Monday April 22, 2019 @05:49PM (#19723339)

You have no idea how developed China's internal shipping is.

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