Investors should get a better sense of how willing consumers are to re-open their wallets over the course of the next three weeks, when retailers report same-store sales Numbers and earnings.
Revenue from the Internet is growing, but Mr. Zhang said he is cautious about pursuing larger growth in the channel, as China's shoppers expect to get only discounted products online.
What is more, those adverts, no matter what products they are made for, are exaggerating and misleading so the consumers practically impulsively purchase some products they do not really need.
I'm also interested in how consumers operate online, and how that online behavior might be different from how they operate offline when they go to the shops.
Post 'cash for clunkers, ' for example, vehicle sales look set to have slumped below an annualized rate of 9 million units in September, according to Edmunds.com, a consumer autos site.
However, there are many cases where the type of a consumer requisition is the exact complement or conjugate of the service port that it is connected to.