Alibaba’s physical store stocks imported goods ranging from food items to kitchen tools and is strategically located in the port city of Tianjin. Demand for imported products is rising in China and ...

The Hema stores are part of Alibaba’s “new retail” strategy, which aims to seamlessly integrate online and offline shopping. Alibaba launched the brand in 2015 in a bid to reinvent traditional ...

Alibaba on Monday unveiled three more Hema supermarkets, in Shanghai and Beijing, to complete the rollout begun in 2015, according to a press release emailed to Retail Dive. The company now runs 13 of ...

Alibaba opened its first European store in Madrid on Sunday. The store will fall under its AliExpress banner.

Alibaba has been recruiting independent store owners in China to adopt its retail management platform in their stores, according to Quartz. Working with third-party stores is a new way for Alibaba to ...

When Chinese e-tailer Alibaba rolled out its Freshippo supermarket in 2016, U.S. observers took notice of what seemed to be the world's first true omnichannel store. Shoppers browse an array of fresh ...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) has made another huge deal as part of its aggressive push into the brick-and-mortar grocery business. Just five months after Amazon.com ( AMZN) announced a $13.7 ...

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Alibaba is continuing its expansion into offline retail after the Chinese e-commerce giant bought up more than one-third of one of Chinese most prolific operators of hypermarket stores. The firm ...