{"id":7801,"date":"2019-04-04T01:20:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T01:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2019-04-04T01:20:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T01:20:54","slug":"meituan-and-alibaba-have-reshaped-food-delivery-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/04\/meituan-and-alibaba-have-reshaped-food-delivery-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Meituan and Alibaba Have Reshaped Food Delivery in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Wang had learned from his mistakes. He expanded quickly, to hundreds of cities in 2011, but spent less recklessly than his competitors did. While two leading, homegrown group-discount sites flamed out and Groupon shut down its China business, Wang focused on food and dining to develop steady repeat customers. \u201cThey thought the business was group buying,\u201d he says of competitors. \u201cWe thought the business was e-commerce for services.\u201d By 2013, with rivals continuing to fade away, he shifted from volume discoun<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2019-meituan-china-delivery-empire\/?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">Meituan and Alibaba Have Reshaped Food Delivery in China<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang had learned from his mistakes. He expanded quickly, to hundreds of cities in 2011, but spent less recklessly than his competitors did. While two leading, homegrown group-discount sites flamed out and Groupon shut down its China business, Wang focused on food and dining to develop steady repeat customers. \u201cThey thought the business was group &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/04\/meituan-and-alibaba-have-reshaped-food-delivery-in-china\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meituan and Alibaba Have Reshaped Food Delivery in China&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}