BEIJING: 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-retailers to persuade the loveless to console themselves with retail therapy.
November 11 – or 11.11 – was proclaimed "singles' day" because of the number of ones in the date, with sellers promoting discounts to the nation's singletons.
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