A highly anticipated day to celebrate being single, YES, it's a real thing here but you do have to go to work.
November 11th has a whole different purpose in China. It's Shopping Online day and people look forward to the amazing deals and huge discounts well in advance. It's not for couples, haha, they do take in the specials though.
Every year it breaks retail sales records that make Christmas shopping look like a joke. This year in the first hour, midnight they sold over $8,000,000,000 and with in a few hours they cleared $10 billion in a single day that is not yet over.
https://www.ft.com/content/adefdc8c-c63a-11e7-a1d2-6786f39ef675
Being in China and also being the bachelor that I am I suppose I should revel in it too. I got a cute lunch date set and maybe do some window shopping and visit the "Claw Game" see if i can impress her. She will be impressed at how much money I put in the machine. hehe.
More goods will be moved over the next few days than any other time of the year pretty much anywhere in the world. Online shops order more boxes and tape and hire extra staff just for the event, just like Christmas in the west but without the distraction of worshiping sweet baby Jesus.
Forget the environmental impact of packaging and moving the stuff, we need more things to hold and make us feel good about ourselves.
Apparently everything is for sale online including a Chinese website selling Vietnamese brides. BUSTED!!
https://asiancorrespondent.com/2015/11/chinese-vendor-attempts-to-sell-vietnamese-brides-on-taobao/#1674OE4k5zIsTsG2.97
It started with this clever man who revolutionized shopping online with creation of TaoBao one of the worlds busiest online retail sites. he is also in the top 5 riches men in the world after coming from a humble upbringing and dropping out of university. Jack Ma is an inspiration to a billion plus people in China alone not including those in other countries that look to him as an idol.
https://qz.com/1124855/2017-singles-day-jack-mas-love-of-martial-arts-and-tai-chi-is-taking-center-stage/
So go shopping online using a Chinese website today. They ship globally most of the time. Do check first. Please don't buy people, ever ever.
