China's online retailers take the battle to the hinterlands
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Wu Weidong was never much of an online shopper. The 47-year-old resident of Yanzhou, a small town in China's eastern Shandong province, typically bought groceries from local stores.But messages from friends asking him to join their group purchases of fruits at bargain prices on the website Pinduoduo finally persuaded him to open an account there. "It's mainly because my friends said the items there are cheap," he said. "So I've started using Pinduoduo more to..