In China Wal-Mart has a 51% investment stake in Web-only retailer Yihaodian, which has increased its online sales 70% in 2013, to 11.54 billion yuan ($1.9 billion) from 6.8 billion yuan ($1.13 billion) .The Shanghai-based Yihaodian, e-retailer, one of the largest online grocery retailers in China, increased its registered users 97% to 57 million in 2013 from 29 million a year earlier.
Yihaodian has particularly been able to offer more food from abroad, a hot area in China where many Chinese consumers worry about contamination of domestic products.
Yihaodian, No. 42 in the Internet Retailer Asia 500, sold 250 million units of imported food products last year,
In 2013, China had an estimated 270 million e-shoppers who spent about $180 billion on online purchase
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