2013-11-12

Fwd: 11/11


'Chinese shoppers spent billions of dollars online Monday, data showed, as they took advantage of discounts offered on Singles Day, a festival created by e-tailers to persuade the loveless to console themselves with retail therapy.

 

November 11 -- or 11.11 -- was proclaimed as "singles' day", because of the number of ones in the date, with sellers promoting discounts to the nation's singletons.'

 

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/china-shoppers-embrace-online-spending-spree-for-singletons/articleshow/25585275.cms

 

Maybe this tradition would spread to other countries?  In the U.S. it would be an excuse to party.

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