Founded in 2008, Yihaodian e-commerce store – now 51% owned by Walmart – runs logistics centres in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu and is able to offer same-day and next-day delivery.
This is how those deliveries were arranged every single morning on a fleet of about 20 bicycles:
We lived in the block on the left, behind the grey pillars. One of the flats opposite us on the hallway was a distribution store for 1 号店, the chinese e-commerce online store. A fleet of lorries delivered to the store, often in the middle of the night, and then the guys and girls trolleyed the goods out to the bicycles, and rode off.
Related articles
- Wal-Mart Raises Stake to 51% in China Online Retailer Yihaodian (businessweek.com)
My World, Your World, One World 
Oh my goodness! amazing 🙂
LikeLike
busy arranging things 🙂 very nice!
LikeLike
I love how you just always have the most apt photographs to hand 🙂
This is amazing!
LikeLike
That’s quite a load to put on a bicycle!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wow, did they ever fall off? Trying to imagine what that must be like going round corners
LikeLike
arranged but overloaded
http://amarnaik.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/weekly-photo-challenge-arranged
LikeLike
Ha ha ha. Yep, it was very similar in Madagascar…
LikeLike
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
~Anne
LikeLike