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Purchases from Asia popular with Slovak shoppers

Xinhua, June 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Slovak shoppers have found a new way to save money in the form of buying goods from Asian Internet sites.

"Last year, the number of registered parcels from China reached more than one million, which was four times the number seen in 2013," Stanislava Pondelova, spokesperson of the Slovak Post Office, said on Monday.

Twice as many parcels from China were delivered in the first three months of this year than in the same period of 2014, Pondelova said.

Around 15 percent of Slovaks buy goods via the Internet several times per month. The most popular items bought are clothes, shoes and electronics. To meet the demand of the increased number of packages coming from Asia, the Slovak Post Office is considering building a new parcels center at Bratislava Airport.

"Bratislava, in view of its advantageous location and level of cost effectiveness, has the potential to become a logistics center for the whole region," concluded Pondelova. Endit