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Business Highlights / Promo: Fifth Year for Lazada Philippines is Strongest Year Yet

UPDATE 03-21-2017: It's HAPPENING! Let's shout HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAZADA! Join the party and find limited-time discounted items, just visit the limited-time Shop HERE  < just click it. Manila, Philippines, 14 March 2017 – With a record high 91% market share in the Philippine e-Commerce category, Lazada Philippines has plenty to celebrate its 5th year anniversary. Since its recent acquisition by global e-Commerce giant, Alibaba.com, the Philippines' dominant online shopping and selling destination shows no sign of slowing down. In only 5 short years, Lazada has been able to guard and develop e-commerce in the Philippines with commitment to its 3 primary client offerings: assortment, convenience, and topnotch service. When it comes to variety, no other Philippine e-commerce platform comes close to Lazada, with 6.3 million items under a wide variety of categories including gadgets, fashion, home & living, travel, toys, grocery items, and even pet products.

Don't Drink Raw Milk, Commercialism and Importance of Pasteurization

Recently, I read a news about listeria deaths in the US (see the BBC News here ). What's a listeria or listeriosis? It's a food poisoning caused by consuming foods contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria (for full technical explanation read WebMD article here ). What made me write this post? It's just that, as far as I can remember, I watched a morning TV show where they featured a Cow Farm. You know, they do this to amuse the viewers, typically to gain viewers' rating and also, to advertise the cow farm's business. So a farmer there teaches the TV host how to milk a cow. As the host successfully milked the Cow, he tasted it and drink the fresh product he just milked. So, I thought that was just fine and okay. I'm not recapping the old school days of teachings in Home Economics about pasteurization. In the High School I attended, they never emphasized the danger of drinking an unpasteurized milk or any unpasteurized dairy products. We are just taught