Shoppers at a retail outlet in Zhaotong
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Almost one in three Chinese shoppers plan to buy more at brick-and-mortar outlets, consulting firm Accenture Plc said in a report on Friday.
About 26 percent of Chinese consumers said they would be shopping more in-store, versus 18 percent in the previous year. The company surveyed 15,000 consumers in 20 countries including China to rank their shopping experience across channels.
About 93 percent of Chinese consumers said it is easier and more convenient to complete a purchase in-store than online (about 75 percent said this method is easiest) or by mobile (about 61 percent).
The study also found that 43 percent of Chinese consumers are willing to travel to a store if it offers real-time product availability.
The findings suggest that consumers may be having second thoughts about the benefits of online shopping. E-commerce is not as convenient as has been thought, said Dave Richards, the global industry managing director of retail at Accenture.
"Compared with online shopping
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He said stores should not be written off just yet, and they will continue to play a critical role in the marketplace.
"Most successful retailers will have multiple channels at work - online channels
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The report said that retailers are actively involved in multi-channel retailing. About 63 percent of the traditional retailers are following this strategy, and 78 percent of single-channel retailers are planning for the transition to multi-channel selling.
So far, 61 percent of retailers have set up an independent official e-shop and 52 percent have established online stores on third-party platforms.
Richards said that retailers still need to do more to provide consumers with a seamless, cross-channel shopping experience.
"Technical support, operations and organizational management will be challenges for retailers to carry out multi-channel retailing
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The report also noted the potential of personalized offerings in the marketplace. It said nearly 50 percent of global shoppers are happy to provide retailers with personal information if it results in a truly personalized offering.
More than 60 percent would buy more if they were offered a personalized subscription program, for example.
Providing consumers with personalized offerings has "big potential" in China, although many retailers do not have the ability to develop personalized offerings, said Koh Yew Hong, a managing director for retail at Accenture.
by Sylvia B. Zarate
BOGOTA, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The municipality of Mesetas in the department of Meta on Tuesday saw the final disarmament of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
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This last handing over of weapons was supervised by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Supreme Commander of the FARC Rodrigo Londono, and head of the UN Mission in Colombia Jean Arnault.
The UN team, with the task to ensure all weapons to be submitted, revealed during the ceremony that it had certified 7,132 individual weapons.
Furthermore
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The only weapons not surrendered by the FARC, as agreed, will serve to provide security at the 26 FARC transition camps until Aug. 1.
Londono thanked the UN and countries that helped the peace process. "We have not failed Colombia. We have left our weapons today. The State has offered us in exchange to build a political party...(and) the tragedies experienced in the past cannot be repeated, as our country has learned from its pain," he said.
President Santos thanked the international community
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"Without weapons, without violence, we are no longer people fighting themselves. We are no longer a history of pain and death...we are one nation reaching to the future in the blessed cause of democracy," Santos said.
Santos, who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring peace to Colombia
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After his speech, Santos and Londono posed with the work "Cultivating Peace" by Colombian artist Alex Sastoque, which depicts an AK-47 rifle turned into a shovel.
The event also saw the participation of ministers, representatives from guarantor countries, facilitators of the peace agreement signed between Colombian government and the FARC
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The UN members, in charge of receiving and storing the weapons, explained how the work had been carried out and formally closed the doors of the containers, where the weapons will be kept until they are melted down to build three monuments to honor peace.
The monuments will then be placed in Bogota and Havana, where the peace talks had been held for four years, and at the UN headquarters in New York.
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