--- title: "Fresh Snack Stores Are Becoming a New Variable in Retail" description: "Over the past two years, one of the most closely watched changes in the retail industry has not just been the continued expansion of bulk snack stores, but the emergence of a wave of \"fresh snack stores\" that emphasize short shelf life, freshly made experiences, and the overall consumer experience.\n\nSpecialized brands such as Jiduoquan, Yili, Pumama, Puxia Longjiu, and Jinlimen are accelerating store openings; traditional food companies like Three Squirrels, Juewei, Lai Yifen, Bestore, and Youyou have also entered the arena. Meanwhile, brands in bakery, tea drinks, dairy, dining, and local specialties are all attempting to enter this new business format.\n\nFresh snack stores are not a simple product category.\n\nWhat consumers are buying is not just \"fresher production dates,\" but a complete set of perceptible fresh experiences. The trust brought by short shelf life and date transparency, the instant gratification of buying and eating on the spot with small portable portions, the rich choices from cross-category combinations such as bakery, braised foods, dairy drinks, and roasted nuts, and the in-store experience created by sampling, aroma, open displays, and continuous new product launches.\n\nTherefore, a true fresh snack business format requires the joint establishment of four layers of capabilities: consumer value, product structure, store scenario, and supply chain. Having only short-shelf-life products or on-site processing is insufficient to constitute a complete business format.\n\nIn terms of player composition, this sector has already formed multiple entry paths, including transformation from roasted nut stores, extension from long-shelf-life snack companies, cross-border entry from catering, transformation from bakeries, and new startups.\n\nDifferent players have different resources and face different problems. Traditional brands have brand, membership, and supplier bases, but need to rebuild fresh product operation capabilities; emerging brands have more flexible store models, but need to build multi-temperature, high-frequency, and small-batch supply chains from scratch.\n\nWe reviewed 29 independent brand samples and conducted a breakdown and analysis. Among them, Jiduoquan and Yili have reached the 100-store scale; Pumama, Puxia Longjiu, and Jinlimen form the second tier; more brands are still at the regional validation or single-store trial stage.\n\nFresh snack stores have completed concept validation, but there is still a way to go before truly achieving a scalable model. The focus of future competition is not who opens stores faster, but who can establish a stable balance among freshness, variety, spoilage, and efficiency.\n\nIn the \"2026 China Fresh Snack Business Format Research Report,\" we further break down the business format definition, operating forms, player landscape, key brands, product structure, supply chain models, and future development trends.\n\nJoin the \"New Distribution FMCG Insider\" to view the full report and grasp the latest landscape and key opportunities in the fresh snack sector." author: "New Distribution" publisher: "New Distribution" email: "zhaobo258@gmail.com" telephone: "+8615854817671" published: "2026-08-21" categories: "Supply Chain & B2B" language: "en" canonical: "https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/fresh-snack-stores-are-becoming-a-new-variable-in-retail-92e11f55/" markdown: "https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/fresh-snack-stores-are-becoming-a-new-variable-in-retail-92e11f55.md" original_source: "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA5MzU0MTAzMw==&mid=2651899232&idx=1&sn=2db32cc02aef7cfa23167fadea8361d8&chksm=8bb822a6bccfabb0195896141015935f46f35314df381851cecc9c0f65a6671f6d016c0d0e91#rd" translation: "https://xinjignxiao.com/zh/articles/%E6%96%B0%E9%B2%9C%E9%9B%B6%E9%A3%9F%E5%BA%97-%E6%AD%A3%E5%9C%A8%E6%88%90%E4%B8%BA%E9%9B%B6%E5%94%AE%E8%A1%8C%E4%B8%9A%E7%9A%84%E6%96%B0%E5%8F%98%E9%87%8F-92e11f55.md" attribution: "New Distribution — https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/fresh-snack-stores-are-becoming-a-new-variable-in-retail-92e11f55/" citation: "New Distribution. “Fresh Snack Stores Are Becoming a New Variable in Retail.” New Distribution, 2026-08-21. https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/fresh-snack-stores-are-becoming-a-new-variable-in-retail-92e11f55/" usage_policy: "https://xinjignxiao.com/ai-policy.txt" --- # Fresh Snack Stores Are Becoming a New Variable in Retail > Over the past two years, one of the most closely watched changes in the retail industry has not just been the continued expansion of bulk snack stores, but the emergence of a wave of "fresh snack stores" that emphasize short shelf life, freshly made experiences, and the overall consumer experience. Specialized brands such as Jiduoquan, Yili, Pumama, Puxia Longjiu, and Jinlimen are accelerating store openings; traditional food companies like Three Squirrels, Juewei, Lai Yifen, Bestore, and Youyou have also entered the arena. Meanwhile, brands in bakery, tea drinks, dairy, dining, and local specialties are all attempting to enter this new business format. Fresh snack stores are not a simple product category. What consumers are buying is not just "fresher production dates," but a complete set of perceptible fresh experiences. The trust brought by short shelf life and date transparency, the instant gratification of buying and eating on the spot with small portable portions, the rich choices from cross-category combinations such as bakery, braised foods, dairy drinks, and roasted nuts, and the in-store experience created by sampling, aroma, open displays, and continuous new product launches. Therefore, a true fresh snack business format requires the joint establishment of four layers of capabilities: consumer value, product structure, store scenario, and supply chain. Having only short-shelf-life products or on-site processing is insufficient to constitute a complete business format. In terms of player composition, this sector has already formed multiple entry paths, including transformation from roasted nut stores, extension from long-shelf-life snack companies, cross-border entry from catering, transformation from bakeries, and new startups. Different players have different resources and face different problems. Traditional brands have brand, membership, and supplier bases, but need to rebuild fresh product operation capabilities; emerging brands have more flexible store models, but need to build multi-temperature, high-frequency, and small-batch supply chains from scratch. We reviewed 29 independent brand samples and conducted a breakdown and analysis. Among them, Jiduoquan and Yili have reached the 100-store scale; Pumama, Puxia Longjiu, and Jinlimen form the second tier; more brands are still at the regional validation or single-store trial stage. Fresh snack stores have completed concept validation, but there is still a way to go before truly achieving a scalable model. The focus of future competition is not who opens stores faster, but who can establish a stable balance among freshness, variety, spoilage, and efficiency. In the "2026 China Fresh Snack Business Format Research Report," we further break down the business format definition, operating forms, player landscape, key brands, product structure, supply chain models, and future development trends. Join the "New Distribution FMCG Insider" to view the full report and grasp the latest landscape and key opportunities in the fresh snack sector. Over the past two years, one of the most closely watched changes in the retail industry has not just been the continued expansion of bulk snack stores, but the emergence of a wave of "fresh snack stores" that emphasize short shelf life, freshly made experiences, and the overall consumer experience. Specialized brands such as Jiduoquan, Yili, Pumama, Puxia Longjiu, and Jinlimen are accelerating store openings; traditional food companies like Three Squirrels, Juewei, Lai Yifen, Bestore, and Youyou have also entered the arena. Meanwhile, brands in bakery, tea drinks, dairy, dining, and local specialties are all attempting to enter this new business format. Fresh snack stores are not a simple product category. What consumers are buying is not just "fresher production dates," but a complete set of perceptible fresh experiences. The trust brought by short shelf life and date transparency, the instant gratification of buying and eating on the spot with small portable portions, the rich choices from cross-category combinations such as bakery, braised foods, dairy drinks, and roasted nuts, and the in-store experience created by sampling, aroma, open displays, and continuous new product launches. Therefore, a true fresh snack business format requires the joint establishment of four layers of capabilities: consumer value, product structure, store scenario, and supply chain. Having only short-shelf-life products or on-site processing is insufficient to constitute a complete business format. In terms of player composition, this sector has already formed multiple entry paths, including transformation from roasted nut stores, extension from long-shelf-life snack companies, cross-border entry from catering, transformation from bakeries, and new startups. Different players have different resources and face different problems. Traditional brands have brand, membership, and supplier bases, but need to rebuild fresh product operation capabilities; emerging brands have more flexible store models, but need to build multi-temperature, high-frequency, and small-batch supply chains from scratch. We reviewed 29 independent brand samples and conducted a breakdown and analysis. Among them, Jiduoquan and Yili have reached the 100-store scale; Pumama, Puxia Longjiu, and Jinlimen form the second tier; more brands are still at the regional validation or single-store trial stage. Fresh snack stores have completed concept validation, but there is still a way to go before truly achieving a scalable model. The focus of future competition is not who opens stores faster, but who can establish a stable balance among freshness, variety, spoilage, and efficiency. In the "2026 China Fresh Snack Business Format Research Report," we further break down the business format definition, operating forms, player landscape, key brands, product structure, supply chain models, and future development trends. Join the "New Distribution FMCG Insider" to view the full report and grasp the latest landscape and key opportunities in the fresh snack sector. --- ## Citation metadata - Publisher: New Distribution - Author: New Distribution - Published: 2026-08-21 - Canonical: https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/fresh-snack-stores-are-becoming-a-new-variable-in-retail-92e11f55/ - Original source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA5MzU0MTAzMw==&mid=2651899232&idx=1&sn=2db32cc02aef7cfa23167fadea8361d8&chksm=8bb822a6bccfabb0195896141015935f46f35314df381851cecc9c0f65a6671f6d016c0d0e91#rd ## Copyright and AI use This article is sourced from New Distribution. 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