In 2017, "new retail" began appearing in Alibaba's earnings reports. Coined by the Chinese e-commerce behemoth, the term refers to the seamless

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Alibaba is facing a reckoning with its once-vaunted 'new retail' strategy as it looks to offload some of its offline retail assets.

Alibaba faces reckoning with once-vaunted ‘new retail’ strategy