Alibaba will publish Q3 results in the coming days. Why is retail activity is lower than JD’s?
In 2020, JD’s retail revenues reached US$114 billion, against US$95 billion for Alibaba. Indeed, these two companies have very different models. JD is an e-retailer that buys products, resells them and delivers to customers with its own drivers, while Alibaba is a marketplace with a GMV 2.5 times higher than JD.com. JD has much higher operational costs because the company has more e-stores that it...