36 1 The official flagship store is that merchants bring their own brands into Taobao Mall, so there will be no fakes, because these brands only use Taobao as a platform, and the goods are directly sold by major brands.

Taobao is an online shopping and retail platform under Alibaba Group, which was founded by Ma Yun in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in May 2003. It is one of the largest shopping websites in Asia and one of the global e-commerce trading platforms.