Don't Spend it all in one place

[Randy W]

in the Shanghaiist

 

Manager informs workers they'll get their paychecks after Singles' Day is over, to ensure they don't blow it all

 

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This Friday is Singles' Day in China (11/11), the biggest shopping bonanza of the year. In fact, this year's edition promises to be the biggest shopping day in 5,000 years of Chinese history with Alibaba expected to reach $20 billion in sales.

However, workers at this Chongqing company will be left out of the historic spending frenzy. The company's 31-year-old general manager said that employees will all get their paychecks next month, in order to stop them from blowing it all shopping online during the Singles' Day holiday.

 

 

 

 

[Allon]

I wonder what else he might censure -- leave time during Valentine's Day to prevent unwanted pregnancy?

 

How thoughtful.

[Randy W]

in the SCMP - Jiaying says it's a 3-day thing now at the downtown department stores

 

Brace for Singles’ Day as Chinese consumers click and swipe to shop

 

Alibaba Group Holding’s TMall.com platform is poised to chalk up a record online shopping extravaganza when it kicks off its eighth Singles’ Day gala on Friday.

Hundreds of millions of consumers are expected to put in orders over a 24-hour period, helping the company break last year’s record of US$14.3 billion in gross merchandise value of products sold.

 

 

[Allon]

There is no shopper like a Chinese shopper. Our company is global and owned by the French now but has a yuge international port at Singapore.

 

The upper management there comes to visit here and disappears to go --- shopping. Especially on Black Friday.