13 Jul 278 million orders in 1 day

In an article published by Entrepreneur.com, they reviewed the size and scale of Amazon and Alibaba. Alibaba is a Chinese-based E-commerce giant while Amazon is the more well known brand in the U.S.  Both companies have enormous scale and reach, but what is fascinating is how Alibaba was able to manufacture a holiday called “Singles Day” an annual shopping holiday in China which is compared to Cyber Monday in the states.  Amazon processed 37 million orders on Cyber Monday while Alibaba processed 278 million orders.

See more stats in the infographic below which was created by ParcelHero :