--FILE--View of signboards of RT-Mart supermarket and feiniu.com in Ji'nan city, east China's Shandong province, 6 April 2017. Some 100 RT-Mart supermarkets in China have completed the upgrade of Tmall new retail and will take a comprehensive part in the Tmall 618 Ideal Life Carnival. The upgraded stores have drawn on the experience of Alibaba Group Holding's fresh food platforms Hema Fresh and Taoxianda to provide integrated online and offline services for customers within three kilometers, RT-Mart said Monday (11 June 2018). This is the first time that Alibaba discloses its progress in new retail cooperation after investing in RT-Mart less than six months ago. RT-Mart stated that other stores will also successively finish the upgrade in the future. The upgraded RT-Mart stores can provide integrated online and offline services; thus, they are no longer traditional supermarkets, said RT-Mart Chairman Huang Mingduan. *** Local Caption ***
