A woman waits for a bus at a bus stop next to an advertisement for Tmall's Singles' Day sale in Beijing, Wednesday, November 9, 2022. China's biggest online shopping festival, known as Singles' Day, is typically an extravagant affair as Chinese e-commerce firms like Alibaba and JD.com ramp up marketing campaigns and engage top livestreamers to hawk everything from lipstick to furniture as they race to break sales records of previous years. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)
