Binzhou supermarkets are trying to recover over one million yuan in payments (video screenshot) Order (video screenshot) Qilu Net February 19 report: During the Spring Festival, many supermarkets remain open because it is the most profitable time of the year. However, this Spring Festival has been a mix of joy and sorrow for small and medium supermarket owners in Binzhou: the joy is that a certain gift item sold out, but the sorrow is that the entire Binzhou could not get any more stock. What was selling so well that it went out of stock? According to Shandong Radio and Television Station Qilu Channel's "Xiaoxi Ban Shi" report, many supermarket owners in Binzhou told reporters that they had ordered "Six Nuts" from the Binzhou Bin City District Junbang Commercial Firm before the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival, paying in advance. However, the agent failed to deliver the goods and the agent, surnamed Du, has lost contact. Currently, more than 180 supermarkets in Binzhou have been affected, and some affected supermarkets in townships have not yet been fully accounted for. The initial estimate of the amount involved is over one million yuan. A supermarket operator in Bincheng District told reporters that around the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2015 (lunar calendar), he paid a total of 50,000 yuan for an order of "Six Nuts." Normally, whenever the supermarket needed goods, they would notify the supplier and delivery would be made until the payment was used up. However, as the Spring Festival approached, they urged delivery repeatedly, but the firm kept making excuses, saying they had no stock. Looking at the amounts of the order payments, each person holds more than one or two receipts. "I paid 80,000," "I paid 5,000," "I paid 40,000"... These receipts are for orders of a certain beverage brand. The amounts range from 5,000-6,000 yuan to as much as 80,000 yuan, and the order times are concentrated around the Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival in 2015. Now the money has been paid, but not a single item has been delivered. The receipts are signed by Du Yongchao, the general agent for the beverage, who had been cooperating with these owners for three to four years. Why did he fail to deliver after receiving the order payments? When they tried to contact Du Yongchao again, they found they could not reach him at all. Panicked supermarket owners began to wonder: Where has Old Du gone? Do we still have our goods? Where did our order payments go? They decided to check Old Du's warehouse. Du Yongchao had two warehouses in the city. One was locked tightly, and the other was also locked, with the interior empty and not a single item. The warehouse had no goods, the company had no one, and Du Yongchao could not be found. They then contacted the beverage manufacturer, who said that Du Yongchao had terminated his contract with the company. Even a conservative estimate: if each supermarket's order payment is 5,000 yuan, and there are at least 100 small and medium supermarkets in the city, Old Du would hold 500,000 yuan. Moreover, Du Yongchao was the sole agent for the Binzhou area, and the number of supermarkets in the districts and counties far exceeds 100, with order payments as high as 80,000 yuan. By this calculation, Old Du's collected order payments exceed one million yuan. Now, the supermarket owners have reported the case to the police. A reporter learned from the Binzhou Bincheng Economic Crime Investigation Brigade that the case has been filed and is under investigation and evidence collection. Meanwhile, a salesperson for Six Nuts in Binzhou said that the supermarket owners' payments would be refunded before the 20th. The above text source: sdcxkxp518 -END- The best domestic FMCG distributor learning platform Focusing on providing professional, practical, and actionable tutorials for enterprises and distributors Committed to helping Chinese FMCG distributors grow rapidly The most professional and practical knowledge base in the FMCG industry Reply with the red number below to get the corresponding content Reply with number 1 to view the complete knowledge base | 001 Excellent article selection | 002 Distributor market operations | 003 Terminal visit management | 004 Sales supervisor skills | 005 Sales improvement techniques | 006 Channel expansion | 007 Managing distributors | 008 Distributor development | 009 Distributor internal operations management | 010 Team management | 011 Efficient distribution techniques | 012 Sales manager's eighteen skills | 013 KA operation methods and strategies | 014 First lesson for new salespeople | 015 Internet, brands | [Long press QR code to follow] To join QQ/WeChat groups, please click: Read the original text