By Veronika Bondarenko Online retailer’s founder sees it as a cross between Costco and Disney. A retail website is counting on a tried and true strategy in its efforts to break into the U.S. market by offering highly discounted prices on a variety of consumer goods. It usually takes a few years for apps and platform that are huge in China to conquer the Western market. This could be seen with social media platform TikTok, fast fashion retailer Shein and even retail platform Alibaba (BABAF) . Sometimes described as “China’s Amazon” (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com Inc. Report, Pinduoduo was launched in …