HEMA SUPERMARKET OFFERS SHOPPERS A ‘NEW RETAIL’ EXPERIENCE by Alibaba

Hema supermarket is what you get when you imagine a seamless blend of the online and offline shopping experience...
​Zhang toured one of the 10 neighborhood stores in Shanghai with Executive Chairman Jack Ma last week and held up the fresh-food focused Hema as an example of the “New Retail” model, which Alibaba has successfully incubated for the past two years. “New Retail” uses technology and data to merge online and offline shopping, offering consumers a more-efficient and more-flexible shopping experience.
The Hema experience starts with a download of the mobile app. That links right up to a customer’s Taobao or Alipay account. Customers who don’t have accounts yet can easily sign up. And then the shopping begins, wherever the customer is.

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