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		Taniwha on July 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day remember that much of Alibaba is essentially a front for lots of small companies - they don't do the shipping themselves

wenc on July 17, 2018 [–]

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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