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You need an app to shop in Alibaba's grocery stores
The Chinese e-commerce giant is launching brick-and-mortar stores that combine online and offline shopping.
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A customer displays the Hema application on a Huawei Technologies Co. smartphone while shopping at an Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Hema Store in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Hema stores are one-stop shops where users can pay with their mobile app, get recommendations by scanning product bar codes, and have seafood cooked on the spot, and also serving as last-mile delivery fulfillment centers, where goods get to buyers within 30 minutes. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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