At an Oct. 15 Double 11 briefing, Tmall president Jia Luo said the event cannot revert to early-era across-the-board 50% discounts. What started as limited-quantity 50%-off offers has scaled to hundreds of millions of consumers and around one million merchants; Tmall now frames Double 11 as merchants providing their genuine lowest prices of the year rather than blanket 50% cuts.

2026-10-15

At an Oct. 15 Double 11 briefing, Tmall president Jia Luo said the event cannot revert to early-era across-the-board 50% discounts. What started as limited-quantity 50%-off offers has scaled to hundreds of millions of consumers and around one million merchants; Tmall now frames Double 11 as merchants providing their genuine lowest prices of the year rather than blanket 50% cuts.