{"id":960105,"date":"2025-09-09T08:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960105"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:05:29","slug":"chinas-ecommerce-companies-are-getting-singed-by-a-price-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/09\/chinas-ecommerce-companies-are-getting-singed-by-a-price-war\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s ecommerce companies are getting singed by a price war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bitter battle among China&#8217;s major online companies to win the &#8220;instant retail&#8221; war is expected to further depress their short- to medium-term profits and contribute to deflationary pressures in the world&#8217;s second-largest economy. <\/p>\n<p>1q <\/p>\n<p>They have also drawn increased scrutiny from regulators who are worried about a downward price spiral in China, where weak property prices and poor job stability have contributed to persistent consumer malaise, pressuring companies into aggressive pricing and subsidies in an effort to get people to spend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bitter battle among China&#8217;s major online companies to win the &#8220;instant retail&#8221; war is expected to further depress their short- to medium-term profits and contribute to deflationary pressures in the world&#8217;s second-largest economy. 1q They have also drawn increased scrutiny from regulators who are worried about a downward price spiral in China, where weak property prices and poor job stability have contributed to persistent consumer malaise, pressuring companies into aggressive pricing and subsidies in an effort to get people to spend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}