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JD Supermarket Releases "JD Good Sea Cucumber Dried Sea Cucumber" Standard: Salt Content 60% Lower Than National Standard, Protein 40% Higher
As demand for sea cucumbers has continued to rise in recent years, market chaos such as excessive salt addition to increase weight and the use of iron-containing chemicals to enhance appearance has occurred from time to time. On March 22, JD Supermarket led the formulation and release of the "JD Good Sea Cucumber Dried Sea Cucumber" standard, becoming the first e-commerce standard for sea cucumbers in China. The standard was jointly developed by seven authoritative institutions and eight leading sea cucumber enterprises. Among them, four indicators are most critical: salt content is more than 60% lower than the national standard, protein content is 40% higher than the national standard, and for indicators not required by the national standard, the standard sets iron content at less than or equal to 0.1% and important nutrient polysaccharide content at greater than or equal to 6%.
New DistributionCollection Stores Become a New Growth Driver? White-Label Food Finally Gets Its Due
Every major channel change presents a new opportunity for traffic shifts in the leisure snack industry. From offline KA supermarkets represented by Walmart, to online e-commerce channels, and from brand specialty stores to snack discount stores, channels are continuously evolving, gradually returning to the commercial essence of leisure food—cost-effectiveness. New Distribution read a research report by Huachuang Securities, 'More, Faster, Better, Cheaper: The Rise and Breakthrough of Snack Discount Stores.' The report mainly introduces snack discount stores as a high-cost-performance brand chain format, directly supplied by manufacturers, bypassing distributor markups, thereby lowering product prices to attract consumers.
怜舟Reviewing Carrefour China's Downfall
In 2008, on the opening day of Carrefour in Beijing Shijingshan Wanda, a tidal wave of customers knocked over shelves, and the government even dispatched armed police to maintain order. In 2022, near the Spring Festival, Carrefour shelves across the country were emptied again, with checkout lines lasting over an hour. The same frenzy and crowding, the same scene of emptying Carrefour, but customers had completely opposite feelings. In just over a decade, Carrefour's customers have fallen from worshipping the 'godfather of hypermarkets' to the doomsday frenzy of a dying brand. As the pioneer of China's hypermarkets, why did Carrefour falter in the face of the advances of younger rivals Sam's Club and Costco? Was it Suning's recent troubles that dragged Carrefour down, or was Carrefour itself doomed?
金梅A Million Small Stores Embrace Instant Retail: Who Will Strike Gold First?
On a Friday night, Wu Di invites colleagues over for dinner and discovers he can buy board game cards via food delivery apps, reflecting the rise of instant retail. This trend is offering new opportunities for small stores, supermarkets, and convenience stores to expand their reach and increase revenue, though success requires adapting to digital operations and local service.
开菠萝财经团队FMCG News: Walmart Beijing Store Fined 60,000 Yuan; Xijiu Launches Largest Campus Recruitment in History...
A Walmart store in Beijing was fined 60,000 yuan for selling expired Longjing tea. Xijiu Group launched its largest campus recruitment drive in history, and Meituan Maicai achieved break-even.
New DistributionEmployees Trapped in Algorithms, Bianlifeng Is No Longer 'Convenient'
A nearly two-meter-tall cold machine with wheels and a camera roams the store, monitoring employees and assigning tasks. This robot, dubbed the 'director' by staff, represents Bianlifeng's algorithm-driven management, which has led to high work intensity, frequent fines, and high turnover, resulting in poor service and empty shelves during the Spring Festival.
佘伟航、张梦依China's Discount Snack Stores Are on the Rise: Will They Replace Mom-and-Pop Shops as the Top Choice for Consumers?
China's consumer goods market is experiencing moderate inflation, with the CPI rising 1.5% year-on-year in the first two months of 2023. This, coupled with an aging population, is reshaping retail, favoring channels like e-commerce and discount stores, which are growing rapidly and posing challenges to traditional retail.
赵波FMCG Daily | East Buy sells farmed shrimp as wild; Yonghui fined 100,000 yuan for substandard bananas and Wuchang fish...
East Buy is being sued by a consumer who bought shrimp advertised as '100% wild-caught' but found they were farmed. Yonghui Supermarket was fined 100,000 yuan for selling substandard bananas and Wuchang fish.
New DistributionDeepening Channel Roots: Genki Forest's Humble Transformation
In early 2023, media reports highlighted Genki Forest's distributor channel issues, prompting New Distribution to conduct market research. A Genki Forest distributor told New Distribution, "Old Tang is changing, very sincerely." Since its explosive debut, the young brand and its founder Tang Binsen have been media focal points, with discussions centered on marketing tactics and hit products. However, the past two years have seen a shift: the 2021 freezer war and joint crackdown by giants, and in 2022, channel crossing and price chaos, lowered targets, and team restructuring. Now, Genki Forest is actively adjusting its approach, focusing on traditional channel depth distribution to compete with beverage giants.
任文青AndyFMCG Daily | Multiple E-commerce Platforms Remove Yulei Olive Vegetable from Shelves; Walmart Responds to 'Cockroaches Crawling in Deli Area'...
Multiple e-commerce platforms have removed Yulei olive vegetable products after Guangdong TV exposed the company's raw materials being mixed with sewage and garbage. Walmart responded to a customer complaint about cockroaches in its deli area, stating that professional technicians are investigating the cause at the store.
New DistributionFMCG Daily News | Police Confirm "Adopt a Cow" APP Is Fake; Namchow Food's 2022 Profit Drops by Half...
Police in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, confirmed that the "Adopt a Cow" APP involved in an investment fraud case was a counterfeit created by criminals using the company's name. Namchow Food reported a 56.41% year-on-year decline in net profit attributable to shareholders for 2022.
New DistributionFMCG Daily News | 160 Shopping Malls' 2022 Sales Reach 349.5 Billion Yuan; JD Seven Fresh and Mengniu Chilled Milk Reach Strategic Cooperation...
According to Lianshang.com, 160 shopping malls in 29 cities (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) achieved total sales of 349.555 billion yuan in 2022. JD Seven Fresh South China region and Mengniu Chilled Milk have reached a strategic cooperation, with Mengniu's new product 'Telunsu Flavored Yogurt' to be launched exclusively across all channels of JD Seven Fresh.
New DistributionCarrefour China's Darkest Hour
As 3·15 approaches, Carrefour has repeatedly stumbled on food safety issues. Recently, a Beijing branch was fined 50,000 yuan for selling mooncakes containing foreign objects. In fact, Beijing Carrefour Commercial Co., Ltd. has multiple administrative penalty records for food safety issues, with total fines exceeding one million yuan. Looking at Carrefour China's performance over the past three years, its offline business can be described as 'bleak.' Even though Carrefour attempted to change its continuous losses through a membership store model in October 2021, the overall situation has not improved significantly.
乾行FMCG Daily News | Yunnan Baiyao Chairman Resigns; Major Supermarkets Report Collective Losses in 2022...
Yunnan Baiyao's chairman Wang Minghui resigned on March 6, 2022. Meanwhile, 10 major supermarket chains have issued profit warnings or reported losses for 2022, indicating a tough year for the industry.
New DistributionReviving Supermarkets: The Strategy Used by Sam's Club and ALDI
Amidst changing market dynamics, supermarkets, once the 'kings of retail,' have seen their glory fade, struggling under the combined pressures of online retail growth, evolving consumer demographics, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite explorations in channel integration, scenario creation, and new product introductions, the road to recovery remains long. According to the China Chain Store & Franchise Association's (CCFA) 2022 report on China's top 100 supermarkets, total sales in 2021 reached 907.6 billion yuan, a 2.6% decline from 2020.
贺晓青 王娅欣FMCG Daily News | JD.com's 10 Billion Subsidy Goes Live; Bestore Plans to Open 1,000 New Stores...
1. JD.com's 10 billion subsidy officially launched on March 6, 20 hours earlier than planned. 2. Bestore plans to open 1,000 new stores in 2023, focusing on Central, South, East, and Southwest China.
New DistributionInterview with 5 Convenience Store Heads: Why Embrace Instant Retail?
Delivery sales are pushing convenience stores to invest in technology. Some have said that the 20-plus-year history of convenience stores in China is a history of long-term competition between local and foreign convenience stores. The entry of foreign convenience stores brought many novel models such as 24-hour operation, fresh food, and supply chain. As 'latecomers' in the convenience store industry, local convenience stores have also shown strong learning ability, absorbing foreign business concepts while gaining insight into local customer preferences, forming their own business characteristics. In recent years, regional convenience stores such as Hunan Xinjiayi, Guangdong Tianfu, and Zhejiang Shizu have emerged as new city landmarks.
联商网编辑部Can Chain Convenience Stores Conquer the Lower-Tier Market?
During the Chinese New Year, the author noticed a new Lawson convenience store in their hometown county, prompting an exploration of why chain convenience stores are expanding into lower-tier markets. The article examines the current state, reasons, and challenges of this downward expansion, including market saturation, cost pressures, and competition with local mom-and-pop shops.
赵胜男What Is the Essence of Lightning Warehouses? What Are the Three Links and Three Stages?
A lightning warehouse is an online convenience store or supermarket based on Meituan (or Ele.me). This implies that consumer shopping experiences and perceptions of price, quality, and service are similar to offline stores, and that the business model tends toward franchising. The article also outlines three links (operations, franchising, supply chain) and three stages (operations first, scale second, supply chain final).
陈维龙FMCG News: Gome Stores Shrink; 2022 Food, Tobacco and Alcohol Consumer Prices Up 2.4% YoY; JD.com Restarts Front-Warehouse Business...
1. Gome stores shrink and will open franchise business. 2. In 2022, food, tobacco and alcohol consumer prices rose 2.4% year-on-year. 3. JD.com restarts its front-warehouse fresh food business. 4. Lianhua Supermarket expects net loss for 2022 to narrow by about 40% to 60% year-on-year. 5. Genki Forest goes 'ALL IN Sales' this year. 6. CPMC's revenue exceeds 10 billion yuan. 7. Costco's Shanghai Pudong store starts trial operation. 8. China Resources C'estbon's East China base officially put into production. 9. Coca-Cola launches Japan-exclusive bottle. 10. Dayao launches its first soda sub-brand.
New DistributionGiants' Decline and Rise: Who Is the Retail 'Evergreen'?
The decline of giants is not death, nor is their rise eternal. Products, efficiency, and solid fundamentals are the 'evergreen' that sustains retail enterprises. Carrefour's decline and Gome's crisis highlight the industry's shift, while platforms like Meituan and Douyin rise with instant retail, urging traditional retailers to adapt or be eliminated.
龙商网Frontline Interview | The Snack Track Is Hot, Why Is This Veteran Snack Distributor Not Optimistic?
Recently, the snack collection store brand 'Zhao Yiming Snacks' completed a 150 million yuan Series A financing round, led by Black Ant Capital with Bestore following. Combined with previous financing news from brands like 'Snack Busy', 'Snack Youming', and 'Panda Momo', snack collection stores focusing on bulk low prices have suddenly become hot. What is a snack collection store? Simply put, it removes the snack food distributor link, directly sourcing or OEMing products from factories, offering low prices and product variety. In other words, it can be seen as a low-end version of 'Bestore'.
陈思廷The Post-Pandemic Era of Discount Stores
Discount stores appear to be a 'low-price business,' but in reality they are 'low-price, high-quality'—beyond low product prices, their product quality and operating costs are not low. The pandemic since 2020 has made discount stores a new trend in the retail sector, but within just one to two years, a large portion of the first batch of startups entering the discount store space have already collapsed, such as the highly visible Boom Boom Mart, whose parent company declared bankruptcy in March last year; the soon-to-expire food discount chain 'Bengong Snack Innovation Studio' has faced a similar fate.
东方Enduring: Three Ordinary Years of a Supermarket Owner
Not every fate is turbulent, not every destiny is full of twists and turns; more often, it's about 'enduring' while 'living.' We interviewed a small community supermarket owner and recorded some of his 'ordinary life' over three years. In the autumn of 2019, Boss Jiang 'drank' his father-in-law into becoming an angel investor, securing his first 50,000 yuan in funding, with a one-line business plan: 'For family happiness, I want to open a small supermarket.' He immediately rented a storefront at the south gate of his residential complex and started his business.
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