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Earnings Call: Q2 2017
Aug 14, 2017
Hello and thank you for standing by for JD dotcom Second Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After management's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. Today's conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time.
I would now like to hand the meeting over to your host for today's conference, Ruiyu
Li. Thank you, operator, and welcome to our Q2 2017 earnings call. Joining me today on the call are Richard Liu, CEO and Sidney Huang, our CFO. For today's agenda, Mr. Huang will discuss highlights for the Q2 2017.
Following the prepared remarks. Mr. Liu and Mr. Huang will answer your questions. Before we continue, I refer you to our safe harbor statement in the earnings press release, which applies to this call as we will make forward looking statements.
Also, this call including discussions for certain non GAAP financial measures, please refer to our earnings release, which contains a reconciliation of non GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Finally, please notice that unless otherwise stated, all the figures mentioned during this conference call are in RMB. Now, I would like to turn the call over to our CFO, Sidney.
Thank you, Lily. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We are reporting another quarter of strong top line growth, solid profitability and remarkable free cash flow. Before I get into the financial highlights, let me first give you a quick update on JD Finance.
We are pleased to announce the deconsolidation of JD Finance as a result of the legal ownership transfer of the business on June 30, 2017. All of our financial metrics in the earnings release have been revised to exclude the P and L impact of JD Finance which is now reflected in a single line item for discontinued operations. The financial highlights that I'm about to discuss are results from continuing operations unless otherwise noted. As this is also the Q1 of the adjustments, I will also highlight a few metrics assuming JD Finance is still consolidated, so you can have an apples to apples comparison. During the Q2 2017, our net revenue from continuing operations grew 43.6 percent, well above the 33% to 37% company guidance excluding JD Finance.
This represents an accelerated growth rate from both our Q1 and 2016 Q2 year over year growth rates. If we add back the impact from JD Finance, our revenue would have grown 45%. This strong growth was achieved through our highly successful June 18th anniversary sales season supported by robust growth momentum across our full category retail platform. Our direct sales revenues grew nearly 43% in the 2nd quarter, led by home appliance, food and beverage, cosmetics, home furnishing and baby products. Our revenues from services and others increased 52% year over year, the fastest growth rate in the past 4 quarters, supported by higher advertising and marketplace commission revenues.
If we add back the revenues from JD Finance, our total revenues from services and others would have grown 68%. Our GMV grew 46% year over year in the 2nd quarter. Growth from JD Mall was 45%, the highest growth rate in GMV over the past 4 quarters. Food and beverage, home furnishing, cosmetics and baby products were the fastest growing general merchandise categories. While key accounts from the top apparel and footwear merchants were over 80%.
As disclosed in the earnings release, during the Q2 we reclassified fulfillment expenses related to 3rd party logistics services into cost of revenues to better match such costs with the associated revenue. As a result, both gross margin and fulfillment expense ratio are retroactively adjusted and equally reduced by approximately 0.9% to 1.1% over the past 6 quarters. Reflecting the effect from JD Finance deconsolidation and the 3rd party logistics service class cost reclassification, non GAAP gross profit increased to 44% in the 2nd quarter, slightly higher than our revenue growth as we reinvested part of our gross margin back to our consumers during the June 18 sales season. Non GAAP gross margin was 13.4%, up from 13.3% in the Q2 of 2016. Without the JD Finance spin off and the logistics service cost reclassification, non GAAP gross margin would have been over 15% compared to 14.6% in the same quarter last year.
Non GAAP fulfillment expense ratio was 6.7% in Q2 which improved 26 basis points from 6 0.9% in the Q2 last year as we continued to benefit from the operating leverage in our established logistics infrastructure which was partially offset by our new investment in such areas as warehouse capacity for external customers and coaching logistics network. Our warehouse space increased over 22% in the past 3 months from 5,800,000 square meters in Q1 to 7,100,000 square meters in Q2. Non GAAP marketing expense ratio was 4.0% in Q2, higher than the 3.3% in the same quarter last year, plus in line with the level in the Q4 last year when we ran our November 11 sales event with similar promotion intensity. Our non GAAP R and D and the G and A expense ratios decreased to 5 basis points and 12 basis points respectively compared to the same quarter last year, which reflect the operating leverage in spite of our heavy investments in logistics technologies and R and D talent. The non GAAP operating margin decreased 18 basis points to 0.6% in the 2nd quarter compared to a non GAAP operating margin of 0.8% in the same quarter last year.
However, we compare our J. D. Moore non GAAP operating margin with Q4 last year excluding the effect from new businesses we actually did slightly better in Q2 on the core operating margin. Our non GAAP net income from continuing operations attributable to ordinary shareholders was $977,000,000 with an increase of 59% on a year over year basis despite our hard investments this year. Our free cash flow was exceptionally strong during the quarter mainly benefiting from our non GAAP earnings and our ability to improve our working capital on both inventory turnover and the payable turnover rate, a lot of which benefited from our end supplier contract negotiation which completed and took effect in the 2nd quarter.
We are pleased to see some solid gains in the payment terms into our scale economies. Yet our payable days continue to remain meaningfully shorter than our key domestic and international retail peers. For the trailing 12 months ended June 30, 2017, free cash flow totaled RMB29 1,000,000,000 or US4.3 billion dollars up 2 14% from the previous trailing 12 months. Many of you may not realize, but this is roughly US3 dollars per ADS. Although we continue to expect our CapEx to significantly increase in the second half Given the remarkable free cash flow in the 1st 6 months, we are confident that our free cash flow for the full year 2017 will remain strong, which is at least another key metric if not the more relevant one to demonstrate the value of our business model.
I would also like to mention that June 30 cash balance on our balance sheet has not included the majority of the proceeds from JD Finance reorganization as most of the proceeds are deposited in an escrow account as disclosed in the earnings release. Once we complete the standard safe procedures, the cash proceeds will be reflected in the investing activities on the cash flow statement in the future quarter. I encourage our investors to read this earnings release carefully to capture the various changes in our financial statement presently and the details of our transaction. We've tried our best to disclose as much information as possible. Now let's discuss our financial outlook.
We expect Q3 net revenue growth to be between 36% 40% on a year over year basis, excluding any impact from JD Finance for both current and prior year periods. This is a strong growth rate for a seasonally slow quarter, especially in light of the increased seasonality pattern that we have observed in Q2 and Q4 sales seasons. In addition, I'm pleased to raise our 2017 full year non GAAP net margin by 50 basis points to between 0.5% and 1.5% to reflect the underlying strength of our core JPMorgan Wall earnings, while still maintaining the full flexibility to reinvest. We remain committed to investing heavily in our digital infrastructure and R and D talent, extending our leadership as the largest retailer in China and creating the best retailer in China and creating the best experience for our customers, which in turn will create a long term value for our shareholders. This concludes my prepared remarks and we can now move to the Q and A session.
The question and answer session of this conference will start in a moment. In order to be fair to all callers who wish to ask questions, we will take one question at a time from each The first question comes from Eddie Leung of Merrill Lynch. Please ask your question.
Hi, good evening. Thank you for taking my question. I noticed that the GMV per order continuing to improve. So just wondering if you could share a little bit more on the underlying drivers of this trend. And did the trend applies to both 1P pieces and 3T pieces
as well
as to both electronics and general merchandise? Thanks.
Sure, Eddie. Yes, you're right that the average order size as well as average purchase size per size per customer has been steadily increasing. This is actually by no surprise as we continue to grow our user base and at the same time more and more of our existing customers are buying more. So in a time of faster new user acquisition, the average or ARPU will remain relatively stable. But as you continue to grow with the new customer adds becoming a smaller portion of your over customer base than your average revenue per customer will naturally increase and this increase applies to all categories and both for 1P and 3P.
Your next question comes from Alicia Yap of Citigroup. Please ask your question.
Hi, good evening, Richard and Cindy. Thanks for taking my questions and congratulations on another solid quarter. My question is related to your international partnership. For example, on Walmart, with your expanded cooperation with Walmart, Can you share with us what kind of likely GMV or revenue upside that we could see, for example, from the inventory integrations and also the availability of the Walmart SKU selections now on the JD platform? And then separately on these for Walmart, any potential conflicts between the JD Walmart versus the Walmart and the Caojia O2O offering?
Thank you.
Sure. For Walmart, we conducted very successful August 8 joint promotion. We achieved remarkable sales results. I think it was more than 10 times of their average volume in the latest month. But more importantly, also the order size increased more than 100% on that day.
Our Walmart's collaboration with Tata also increased more than 200% during that day. So we had a lot of great results coming out of the latest promotion which is just one example of our enhanced collaboration. Now because the new Walmart flagship store was just launched during the Q2, so the actual contribution to our overall GMV or revenue is still very, very small, but the growth rate has been very, very encouraging. And also your question on data, there is no conflict at all. In fact, we have seen very, very robust growth not only on the number of stores connected to our Jindong Daojia mobile app, but also the average store sales through data has been growing at a really, really fast pace.
So we're very, very pleased to see the development on both JD side and also data side.
Next question comes from Alan Halloway of Deutsche Bank. Please ask your question.
Great. Thank you very much. Just with regard to the gross margin, we're obviously internalizing the reclassification of fulfillment expenses and then understanding the JD Finance deconsolidation. I think we flagged that 1P gross margin due to potentially particularly intensive promotions and rebating in the Q2 may not continuously trend upward. And that, however, linked with what is very the very encouraging lift in net margin guidance just leads me to wonder how should we think about gross margins as we kind of move our way through these reclassifications as we move into the 3rd and 4th quarters of the year?
Thank you.
Sure, Alan. As we mentioned on last earnings call and also previous earnings calls that we do expect our overall core operating margin continue to improve on an annual basis from now on. So you will see meaningful improvement on annual basis for sure. So this is why we are raising our guidance this quarter. Coming back to Q2, you mentioned about 1st party gross margin.
What we had mentioned also in the previous quarter was that Q1 overall margin was exceeded has exceeded our expectations and we had a full intention to reinvest that excess return, our excess margin back to our consumers through more promotions and return value to our customers. So we did exactly that in the second quarter you saw from our results that our top line growth was very robust and that's what exactly what we had hoped. So, with our preset of internal budget for our bottom line improvement will reinvest access to maximize top line growth. That has been our strategy and that has not changed.
The next question comes from Eric Sheridan of UBS. Please ask your question.
Thanks for taking the question. I would love to get a little more detail about the partnership with Baidu, artificial intelligence, what you think might do for the platform medium to long term with respect to the deployment of big data and how that might inform the shopping experience? Thanks, Sidney.
Yes. So, Michel was saying that after we had the partnership with Tencent called Jingten plan, we had partnered with Total which has tremendous traffic on mobile internet as we announced before and we also just partnered with Baidu and we in fact expecting another major collaboration in the near future. So with the 4 strategic collaboration with probably the foremost the highest traffic entry points and on mobile Internet, we expect 100% penetration to Chinese consumers or 100% reach to all the consumers in China. Now having said that, these collaborations are still especially with Baidu and Tojia are still in the early stage. We do have a lot to work with together with our partners.
So in the near term you may not see very meaningful J and D contribution, but we are very confident with the broader reach to the Chinese consumers. We will have very meaningful results. So, every quarter, for example, even with Tencent, we have continued to improve the quality of our data collaboration through a lot of closer partnership and also artificial intelligence technologies. In that process improve the ROI, the quality of our advertising results. So we are also expecting to launch our JD Tencent 2.0 program, part of the Jinteng Jihua.
And so we can expect even better results for both data analytics and advertising results for both our brands and also for our companies to achieve better ROI.
Next question comes from Grace Chang of Morgan Stanley. Please ask your question. Hello. Hi. Thank you for taking my question.
My first question is about the Q3 guidance. We noticed that on a year over year basis, the Q3 sales guidance still represent very strong growth. On a sequential basis, the midpoint well, the sequential basis Q3 sales guidance implies it's down probably around 10% to 12% q o q. This compared with 4% to 6% sequential decline in the past 2 quarters. I'm wondering whether this represents a new norm in the future more aggressive promotion in the second quarter.
Also, my second question is about the marketing dollars that we saw that the marketing expenses, the potential revenue increased a bit. And can you tell us what are the key category product categories that are focusing on that we are focusing on in the past quarter? Thank you.
Sure. Yes. On Q3 sequential, it's actually the flip side of the Q2 sequential growth. So I did mention on the earnings call on my remarks earlier that we have observed increased seasonality patterns over the past couple of years where Q2 and Q4 will grow faster on top of a very strong previous sales season. And then as a result, the sequential movement will also see a slightly larger kind of hold back.
So this is all it is becoming a new normal for sure. On the marketing dollars, I mentioned that even though it's higher 0.7% higher than previous Q2. In fact, if we use the same intensity we will probably have been GAAP profitable. But it is however consistent with our Q4 last year's intensity of promotion that marketing dollars mostly actually spend incentives to our customers mainly for the marketplace business because there's no direct sales revenue against the marketplace sales volume. So any promotion incentives will go into the marketing dollars and obviously other marketing activities during the sales season.
So, it's actually quite consistent. We see a lot of similarities with the Q4 last year both in terms of gross margin, operating margin and also all the expense lines if you take a closer look.
Your next question comes from Wano Kuo of Goldman Sachs. Please ask your question.
Thanks. Hi, hi, Richard, Sydney and Ryu. Just want to ask about your apparel strategies. Could you share some of the initial targets or some targets that you've set with Farfetch through your investment? And whether you would focus more on growing the apparel segment through organic or could open always open to any acquisitions to grow the apparel segment further?
Thank you.
Yes, so our investment in Farfetch is really part of our effort to fulfill the demand of Chinese consumers for luxury products. In fact, we are also preparing for our own luxury platform to be launched later this year. So you may wonder we have 2 platforms would they be competitive or have any conflict? We believe there won't be because Farfetch, the specialty for Farfetch is they have collected a huge number of boutique stores around the world and the product selections in on the Farfetch merchants are quite unique. And we have observed that vast majority of those selections not available in China.
And for JD, our own plant luxury platform will be focused on luxury products available through the official channels in China of those basically the Chinese subsidiaries of the global luxury brands. Yes, we believe you will require both approaches, both means of both types of selections to meet the rising demand of consumer, Chinese consumers for luxury brands. Yes. So if we see more similar opportunities, high quality platforms like Farfetch, we clearly don't rule out the possibility of other investments. Yes.
So obviously we will continue to pay more attention to our own apparel and footwear business. This is one area as we mentioned previously, we were trying to make some adjustments since last year to eliminate the brushing activities. This happened to be the area, the category where brushing activities are more prevalent throughout China. So we continue to enhance our technologies to detect this kind of activities. And at the same time, our focus this year is to the key accounts as I mentioned earlier and make sure that they are successful JD's platform and using those key accounts to bring better and better to facilitate the growth for medium and smaller merchants on our platform.
If we don't focus on the key accounts, we think the current traffic may not support the entire merchant base especially for this particular category. So this is our strategy, but we have seen very, very positive results out of our key accounts growth rate and which in turn is bringing more traffic to us for the mid sized merchants as well. Right. And one side benefit of anti pricing effort is actually benefiting the key accounts and major brands. So, because major brands do not conduct those activities.
So, as the less the smaller merchants traffic and activities reduce the major accounts will actually benefit from enhanced exposure. Yes. So, in some our apparel category has now reached a very healthy state, which is what we had hoped and worked for. So we are expecting a very healthy growth trajectory from now on.
The next question comes from Xu Xia of HSBC. Please ask your question.
Hi, this is Chi Sang. Thank you very much for taking my question. I was wondering if you could comment on what type of data you might share with your 3P merchants to enable them to drive higher conversion on your marketplace? In particular, what type of customer segmentation and targeting can you offer? Thank you.
Yes. As we mentioned before that we have been improving the data analytic tools for our merchants. So in this area, because we are relatively younger in the marketplace business, But over the years, we have collected and developed many, many very useful tools for our merchants. And this year you will see more and more of those products being introduced to our merchants especially key accounts. And so we're making very good progress.
Next question comes from Jing Yuan of Mizuho Securities. Please ask your question.
Sidney, did I hear you correctly? The JD Finance impact was about 200 basis points where gross margin would have been over 15% if it was included. So should that be the same impact in the second half of the year? Or is there a certain seasonality regarding the impact of JD Finance? Thanks guys.
Yes, no problem. The impact is from 2 elements, right. 1 is JP Finance and the other is the reclassification of 3rd party logistics service costs, which was grouped in fulfillment expenses. And for that line item, it's roughly 1% as we actually previously always mentioned. So this time we actually did a lot of detailed work to allocate in a more methodical way so that we can reclass them back into the cost.
So that has roughly more or less 1 percentage point impact and then the remaining is from JD Finance, which is should be around 60, 70 basis points.
Next question is from Zoe Zhao of Credit Suisse. Please ask your question.
Thanks management for taking my question. We've seen very strong cash flow this quarter, but then since we still carry like Baiqiao receivables and the related nonrecourse securitization debt on your balance sheet, could you elaborate the cash flow impact in this quarter from the deconsolidation from JD Finance? Thanks.
Sure. Yes, the deconsolidation itself doesn't result in any operating cash flow for continuing operations nor any impact on free cash flow. So all the free cash flow we discussed are from continuing operations. The JD Baiqiao balance remaining on balance sheet, we actually had a footnote underneath the balance sheet explaining that there are really 2 very technical elements that prevented us from deconsolidating JD Baixao. 1 is essentially the legal permit.
Right now, we have the JD Mall has the permit. And then 2 is, there's some technical aspect for securitization, which actually could potentially be resolved in the future quarters. So, in any event, SJD Finance is positioned as a finance technology company, so we expect future additional volume will more and more actually coming from our banking partners, actually coming from our banking partners rather than from our own balance sheet. And also this is true, has been true even before spin off, all the economics basically all the rewards and the risks have been passed to JD Finance. So even though we need to carry JD Baiqiao and securitization on our balance sheet or the economic benefit and the cost will no longer and has not been part of the J.
D. P and L.
Next question comes from John Choi of Daiwa. Please ask your question.
Good evening, guys. Thanks for taking my question. I have a question on your free cash flow right now because if you look at your free cash flow from the past trailing 12 months, it's been very strong. But it seems to me, as you mentioned in your earlier remarks, that the CapEx should be more or less towards the second half this year. But at the same time, Cindy, you mentioned that your free cash flow should remain pretty strong.
So can you elaborate a bit more, like how should we think about the CapEx and also the overall operating cash flow towards the second half this year? And also just quickly on the key categories, I noticed that apparel cosmetics have done extremely well in the past couple of quarters. What is what could the management do further in order to further enhance these categories? Do you have to invest more or do you have to also think about strategic investments in other companies? Thank you.
Sure. So on free cash flow, as I mentioned, it's also partly because we had our annual contract renewal in the Q2. So much of the new payment terms became effective in the Q2, which benefited our payment turnover days and also our inventory turnover days was well under control. Again, in fact with our increasing scale, the average payment even on a trailing full quarter basis you saw a decline in inventory turnover days. If you look at it just 1 quarter the improvement was even more notable.
So, it's really a very remarkable quarter. And when I said earlier about full year 2017 as I commented before, when you look at the cash flow you should look at on the trading 12 months or trading 4 quarter basis because there will be volatilities and among the quarters. So I was referring to full year 2017 obviously which will benefit from our Q2 free cash flow. CapEx, as we mentioned before, we will see more spending in the second half. But once again, when we actually incur those, we believe investors should be thankful because normally we will get very, very good deals from the government because we are creating jobs for these local municipality when we acquire land in their jurisdiction.
And so normally Congress those land acquisition will get a lot of benefit not only very cheap land price, but also a lot of other government support locally. One example for our logistics headquarters in Xi'an, the government actually gave us one office building. So it's just one example where when we actually stopped securing those local partnership, you'll see a lot of benefit to our shareholders.
Next question comes from Alex Yao of JPMorgan. Please ask your question.
Hey, thank
you, management for taking my question and congrats on a strong quarter. I have 2 quick ones. One is on the revenue side, you guys have been showing a lot of the strength in the past few quarters and the revenue accelerated in this quarter. Can you help us to understand what are the key drivers for the strength of the revenue growth? And how sustainable can we think of the top line strength?
Apparently, there are a number of things you guys are benefiting from such as the structural migration from offline transaction to online, expansion of core category into FMCG and low base last year, etcetera, etcetera. In terms of the importance to the top line, what are the key drivers among the underlying reason? And then secondly, can you give us updated thoughts in terms of how are you approaching the offline opportunities? Apparently, you guys are doing a number of new initiatives this year, including building the convenience store network nationally. I think there are also a number of other things you guys are currently exploring.
Can you give us updated thoughts in terms of how you approach this offline opportunity? Thank you.
Sure. So, Meizan, on the first question, I think growth sales growth has always driven fundamentally by better customer experience. As we over the years, we continue to improve that and the growth is really an outcome. But I think in the end it's all about continuously improving customer experience and part of that is benefiting from our scale economies. As we mentioned in the past that with the scale economies we can continue to be able to offer everyday low price and very, very attractive promotions and incentives to continue to attract new customers and also reward our existing customers.
So there's really no other metrics because sales growth coming from all categories. It's not about any particular category, not about any kind of unique events impacting any of the particular categories. So that's why we continue to be quite optimistic for our future growth. For the offline opportunities, I think we talked about we are in fact the pioneer in our O2O initiative in China starting from our initiative by connecting offline supermarkets to a location based on mobile app. So, we have seen very, very encouraging growth.
In fact, there has been we start to see some deflection points in that business as volume continue to improve in a very dramatic way and the same store sales for Walmart and Yonglei for example on data has been growing at a exponential kind of way. So that's one of the first initiative and continue to gain traction. The other areas as Richard mentioned on the last earnings call, we essentially leverage our existing capabilities whether it's from our supply chain or from our user reach to create really more customer interface. We won in addition to Jinlong Bong for example, we had in the past, we are introducing JD Home concept stores, which specialize in selling electronic products and comparing to for example Apple Store which is a single brand concept store and we actually can we have the benefit of having multiple brands having their best products in those very, very cheap showrooms. So we see some very, very good initial success in those initiatives.
But all of those initiatives are franchise based. They are asset light. It will not cost a lot of heavy investments.
Next question comes from Natalie Wu of CSCC. Please ask your question.
Hi, good evening management. Thanks for taking my question. For the payment related costs, given that JD Finance already deconsolidated, so just wondering which line will the settlement related fee go, cost or expenses? And if Benjamin could share with us the gross profit margin for direct sales in Q2 of 2017 on an apple to apple basis, that would be great. Thank you.
Yes. On the payment related cost part of the fulfillment expenses, so they have always been in that line with the deconsolidation, you're right. So whatever we pay to JD Finance will be reflected in the fulfillment expenses, while historically that amount will be eliminated at a consolidation. For the gross margin as I mentioned, we don't necessarily look at quarter by quarter especially given that Q1 we well exceeded our internal budget. So, we clearly we had mentioned and we in fact reinvested during the Q2.
So, I think it may be better to look at a trailing 12 month basis just like cash flow going forward. We are committed to steadily improving all of our core margins on an annual basis or on a trailing 12 month basis.
Next question comes from Jia Longxi of Nomura. Please ask your question.
I would like to ask Richard for his colors on the private label e commerce like what native Yanxuan is doing. I just wonder how Richard think of the outlook and potential of this private label e commerce service. Will JD have any plans to enter this niche market in the future? Thanks.
Yes. So Richard said, the Wang Yi Yanxuan model is actually quite interesting and it's a good model. But for JD because we are a full category retailer supporting numerous brands. So our priority is continue to support our brand partners and in the foreseeable future. However, we are experimenting in a smaller way in for quite a few categories of our own private label products.
Yes. So in comparison to a full category retailer like jd.com, despite how successful it could be for private label business, it will be as a very small part of overall business volume. But we'll continue to explore private label initiatives. So over a long term longer term period, we expect it could become somewhat meaningful part of our business. So for the strategic collaboration with Baidu because it's strategic and a comprehensive collaboration.
So, there will be many, many areas of collaboration with different types of collaboration models. So with those models they will have different fees or revenue. In terms of whether it's a CPS or CPC. But in the end, we believe the collaboration can significantly improve the ROI and also enhance the traffic and our user base. So we believe it's a win win partnership for both of us where Baidu can expect earnings for increasing advertising revenue and we can expect a much higher quality of advertising spending and ROI.
Next question comes from Eric Wang of Blue Lotus. Please ask your question.
Hi. Thanks management for taking my questions and congratulations on good quarter. Question on the logistics side. I noticed that we have launched a few initiatives on the logistics area and one of those initiatives is the collaboration with SF Express regarding the use of pickup cabinet. I just want to know how the reception of our customers towards picking up their delivery from the cabinets.
And since I noticed that we also have our own pickup station, to TDN, I want to ask what is our view towards the pickup and its future in the delivery industry? And lastly, if I can clarify, if KG Logistics reduced our margin by 1% and the fulfillment costs reclassified is RMB2.6 billion. What is the revenue size of JD Logistics under this calculation and is the loss mainly G and A or marketing?
Thanks. Sure. Yes. So for our collaboration on the Zincigui, so it's a self pickup cabinet. We actually had our own small network as well.
So this is nothing new. We actually call our customers before we put any of the packages into those self pickup cabinets. And so it's only at the permission of our customers that we will do that. Increasingly we see especially for working professionals that they may not be at home during the working hours or they could be stay out fairly late. So there is a demand for consumers for those type of drop off services.
This is also very similar for our own self pickup locations. So again, these are all based on consent from our customers before we will actually put their products, drop off their parcels in those locations. And we do think this is potentially one interesting last mile alternatives. It also helps save cost because it will clearly improve the efficiency of our delivery man. But again, this will be based on the consent, prior consent for our customers on a case by case basis.
For logistic revenue, we had mentioned in the past, we have been running our 3rd party logistics services on more or less breakeven basis. So obviously this is not 100% flat based on the cost. There will be potentially some volatility among different quarters. But all together, it should be quite close to a breakeven basis.
Next question comes from Ella Ji of China Renaissance. Please ask your question.
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Hello?
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Yes.
Yes. Thank you.
Yes. Okay. So my first I have first I have a quick follow-up regarding the sales and the marketing spending. So, Sumi, you mentioned that the current quarter spending pattern is similar to 4Q last quarter. However, that was comparing to 2Q last year, it was an acceleration.
So I wonder looking forward, given that the current market competition is still strong, should we expect 4Q this year, the sales and marketing spending will likely be even higher than the 2Q level? Then my second question is, overall this year in so far the online retail sales, the market has been very strong, especially in certain categories, including home appliance. I wonder if management can share your insights. What do you think are the drivers that help driving up the whole online market acceleration? Thank you.
Sure. So I think the first one, we invest and run our business based on our own business fundamentals. So if you look at when we continue to improve our underlying strength of the core business, we do have more and more resources to reinvest and give back to our consumers. So, I mentioned Q4 is obviously Q4 we also had a very, very robust quarter of growth. And so the additional investment in sales and marketing provided very good ROI and similarly for Q2 as well.
So, I think we will also formulate our strategy in the second half, but this is not necessarily in reaction to any competition. I think we 1st and foremost is to really follow our own business logic in running our business. On the overall acceleration of online sales, I think it does reflect again, I think it's similar to our earlier to my earlier comments about retail business in the end is about customer experience. So, I think overall the online retail and e commerce market or players has been obviously providing very, very good value proposition to our consumers in China. I think this is fundamentally what's driving the accelerated growth.
Obviously, the healthy economic environment is also helpful Overall retail consumption volume has also been quite stable driven by the fundamentals we had mentioned before about stable employment rate, rising salary and also the high savings rate among the consumer.
The next question comes from Wendy Huang of Macquarie. Please ask your question. Thank you.
My I have two questions. The first question is about your logistics business. Can you give us some update about the percentage of your 3rd party merchants using your warehouse and fulfillment? And also, with the reorganization of your logistic business, are you also opening it to any third party platforms merchants such as Taobao Merchants? Second question is about your collaboration with 3 Internet companies, Tencent, Total and Baidu.
Given the high user base of those companies and also the overlap of their user base, are you actually seeing any difference in terms of the users or the shopping behaviors that you can actually acquire through their channels? Thank you.
Right. So the reason we opened up our logistic platform capabilities is to really as a result of seeing tremendous demand from the brands for logistics services. So JD happened to have built a very strong logistic network not only the small medium sized products, but also big large appliance products, co chain logistics and also O2O outsourcing logistics. So we can we are best equipped to fulfill these needs. We have seen for example apparel brands requiring services to ship their products to various store locations and also their official stores requiring logistics services to serve their consumers and also O2O initiatives where consumers place orders and their stores can help fulfill.
So, there will be a lot of demand in all channels for our services. Yes. So, in the past, the brands because of these different requirements will have to contract very different types of logistics service providers, but because JD has all of these services available or capabilities available, so we can offer a one stop solution to these brands. So, although we only open our services in 2 months, we can we have already seen a lot of big brands approaching us and are using our services. So, we are pretty confident even just for the 1st year we can probably achieve 6 $1,000,000 of revenue.
Yes. And we will expect over 100% growth next year and also decent profitability for this business. But more importantly, we will in addition to the traditional services where we can offer 1 stop solution, but we can also utilize our big data to help these customers to enhance the efficiency of their supply chain. And when that objective is accomplished, there will be huge win win opportunities for both of us. And this kind of big data analytic capabilities is not currently available with the existing logistics service providers.
So we are very, very uniquely positioned to take advantage of this demand and for this reason we believe our business could be very, very profitable over the long term. So for the differences between those different platforms with Tencent or Baidu, even though Tencent has this huge amount of number of customers because different mobile internet destinations have different value proposition. So customers going to different sites for different purposes and using their different products. So for that reason, we continue to see very different insight when working with different partners. Yes.
So we hope in the end our advertising products can be available in all different channels, not only in WeChat, but also in search engines and in media and streaming video streaming products and also and games, yes. And also cyber safety products for example. Yes. So we believe with those multiple channels of collaboration, we can optimize our advertising quality and ROI and creating winning solutions for everyone. So after we collect the user behavior in all these different channels, we can also better analyze and utilize those data to better target these customers.
Thank you. We are now approaching the end of the conference call. I will now turn the call over to JD dotcom's, Ruiyu Li for closing remarks.
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