Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has gone all in on its New Retail play, taking the online shopping experience to bricks-and-mortar stores, starting with its own backyard. According to Hema CEO Hou ...

Hema is the chief component of Alibaba’s other category which made up 10% of fiscal 2018 revenues, up from 2% of revenues during fiscal 2017, according to the company’s 2018 earnings release.

Alibaba's own efficient cashier-less Hema stores were tested in China for two years and launched in several Chinese cities, months before Amazon's trial of one AI-empowered store in Seattle.

Alibaba added that Hema shoppers on average made four to five purchases a month and 50 a year. Online orders, on average, accounted for more than half of total orders, it said.

Hema Xiansheng (盒马鲜生), the Alibaba-owned online-to-offline supermarket chain, will roll out upgraded versions of its physical stores in the near future, according to a Sina report.Li Bing, general ...

This is astonishing, because Hema Xiansheng (盒马鲜生) is Alibaba’s most talked about New Retail initiative. As it turned out, I was in luck, because my in-laws are part of Hema’s second ...

Alibaba is expanding Hema, a chain of cashless supermarkets.; The stores are sprawling and offer a giant selection of fresh food, including seafood that shoppers can select and send to the kitchen ...

Hema Fresh, the prototype supermarket of Alibaba Group’s New Retail concept, will team up with 13 commercial property developers in China to boost its presence across neighborhoods and communities.

Alibaba’s plan to roll out 2,000 of its high-tech Hema grocery stores looks overly aggressive but typical for the company. The push could prove costly if the concept fails to catch on.

Alibaba Group introduced three new Hema supermarkets where consumers can shop and eat in-store or order for online delivery.