This year’s Singles’ Day – the country’s answer to Black Friday,which began as an ‘anti-Valentine’s Day’ binge for singletons – tramples 2014 recordShoppers maintain spent more than $9bn (£6bn) in the first 12 hours of China’s Singles’ Day sales, topping last year’s total for the worlds biggest online shopping day.
Total rude merchandise volume, and a degree of sales,matched the 2014 Singles Day figure of $9.3bn just after midday, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said.
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Source: theguardian.com