Alibaba Has Ambitious, Amazon-Like Offline Plans

When news broke in late November that Alibaba (baba) was investing nearly $3 billion for a 36% stake in China “hypermart” operator Sun Art Retail, it looked like the Chinese e-commerce titan was stealing a page from Amazon's playbook. Amazon (amzn), after all, had months earlier stunned U.S. … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit