Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba said Monday that its Taobao Instant Commerce service, which delivers things within 60 minutes, had surpassed 40 million daily orders within a month of operating.
The site integrates merchants from Alibaba’s food delivery affiliate Ele.me onto its main domestic shopping app, Taobao, and is part of a broader effort among Chinese internet platforms in recent months to invest billions in so-called “instant retail”.
