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Convenience Stores Go Downstream, Mom-and-Pop Shops Fight Back
As night falls in the city, young people in first-tier cities enjoy convenience store snacks like oden, but rural youth lack such access. Now, provinces like Sichuan and Jiangsu are pushing to build convenience stores in villages, while brands like Lawson, 7-Eleven, and FamilyMart expand into lower-tier cities, facing competition from mom-and-pop shops that dominate these markets.
一点OnePostThe "Overlooked" Canned Food: In Critical Moments, Industrialized Food Can "Save Lives"
Since March, Shanghai has been at the epicenter of a new wave of Omicron outbreaks, with 25 million people facing varying degrees of material shortages. While residents have resorted to creative measures like community group buying and hydroponic vegetable cultivation, the article argues that canned food, often misunderstood as unhealthy and unpreserved, is actually a reliable and nutritious option for emergency preparedness, backed by historical and global examples.
湃动研究院Yonghui's Elephant Turn: Back on the Path to Profitability
In 2021, physical supermarkets faced a tough environment. Recently, major listed supermarket companies released their 2021 annual reports, showing grim data: nearly 90% saw revenue declines, and all saw net profit drops, with some suffering significant losses. In 2021, facing repeated COVID-19 outbreaks, weak consumer spending, intensified competition, community group buying impact, rising fixed costs, and the impact of new leasing standards, domestic physical supermarkets faced enormous pressure, and the industry showed a bleak atmosphere.
联商网编辑部A Major Test for Same-City Retail Amid the Pandemic
The pandemic acts as a crucible for traditional retailers and e-commerce platforms, testing their supply chain capabilities. On April 24, Beijing saw a panic-buying spree, prompting the government to emphasize the role of key supply guarantee enterprises like Meituan, which leveraged its same-city delivery and retail layout to ensure supply.
十里79 Supermarkets and Department Stores Including Better Life, RT-Mart, Yonghui, and Rainbow Released 2021 Results!
This article compiles the 2021 annual results of 79 Chinese retailers, including supermarkets, department stores, specialty stores, FMCG brands, footwear and apparel companies, and e-commerce platforms. It highlights key financial figures such as revenue, net profit, and store counts, with notable losses at Better Life, RT-Mart, and Renrenle, and strong growth at Anta, Li-Ning, and JD.com.
零售信息袁生Sam's Club Revives Walmart, But Who Will Save Carrefour, Yonghui, and Metro?
Metro is accelerating the conversion of its hypermarkets back into warehouse club stores. A 8,000-square-meter, three-story store will sell not only fresh produce and daily groceries but also iPhones and luxury goods, as Metro promoter Xiao Qin tells us while walking. After touring the store, which is still under renovation and requires membership for entry, it's past noon. The protective glass stacked at the entrance reflects light, but Xiao Qin is worried—she hasn't signed up a new member in three days.
关注消费的Layoffs, Store Closures, and Cancelled Year-End Bonuses: Has Bianlifeng's 'Algorithm' Failed?
Bianlifeng, a unique convenience store chain that rose rapidly to nearly 3,000 stores in five years, is now facing setbacks including layoffs, store closures, and cancelled year-end bonuses. The company's algorithm-driven model, once hailed as revolutionary, is being questioned as its new business ventures stumble and expansion slows.
乔雪Stockpiling Can't Save 'Junk Food'
Consumers across China are stockpiling instant noodles, ham sausages, canned food, potato chips, pickled vegetables, and cola, leading to a surge in sales. However, this short-term boom is unlikely to reverse the long-term decline of these FMCG products.
AI财经社Seizing the Opportunity in Warehouse Membership Stores: Do You Still Have a Chance?
Since 2019, membership-based warehouse clubs have been disrupting China's retail sector. Costco's first store in Shanghai opened in August 2019 with impressive performance, and in 2021 it accelerated expansion into five more cities. This sparked a wave of entries by major retailers like Walmart, Metro, Carrefour, fudi, Yonghui, and Hema X. The article argues that the era of co-good marketing has arrived, emphasizing deep customer engagement, single-customer economics, and the importance of building long-term partnerships with members.
贾昌荣Driving for Hema in Shanghai: The Real Challenge of Delivering Groceries
After a day of picking goods in the warehouse, programmers who once talked about 'product thinking' and 'middle-platform strategy' were exhausted. Someone joked: This is harder than 996. The community told driver Qiu Keli: If you enter, don't leave; if you leave, don't come back. He indeed never returned home and now sleeps in his car. From epidemic prevention, nucleic acid tests, permits, and dealing with ever-changing community rules, to the fact that charging the car is more important than sleeping, delivering groceries is like passing through five gates and slaying six generals. At Hema, Chen Yuan was the first to call on colleagues to use their private cars for delivery.
布里Carrefour Flagship Store Closes, Supermarkets Face 'Moment of Life or Death'
External pressures from e-commerce and group buying have overwhelmed traditional supermarkets like hypermarkets, exposing their outdated profit models and product selection management. How can offline retail, caught in massive commercial inertia, avoid becoming a giant ship hitting an iceberg? On March 31, Carrefour's store in Zhongguancun, Beijing, officially closed after 18 years of operation.
不止十一人The Business Logic of a Fruit Store
An ordinary fruit store in a third- and fourth-tier city earns over 500,000 yuan in profit a year. This miraculous store perfectly exemplifies the business logic of an enterprise.
宋子义A 30-Billion-Yuan Blue Ocean: What Kind of Business Are Expiring-Food Stores?
A bottle of French Perrier water, normally priced at 12.8 yuan, sells for 5 yuan here; a can of Lay's chips, usually over ten yuan, can be bought at half price. Expiring-food stores, represented by HotMaxx, are sweeping through first-tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. According to iiMedia Research, China's total snack sales reached 3 trillion yuan in 2020, implying a potential market supply of at least 30 billion yuan. With such promising prospects, capital has poured in. In 2020...
李树烽Fresh E-commerce, Convenience Stores? How to Break Through the 'Grocery Shopping' Rigid Demand Under the Epidemic?
With the intensified prevention and control measures in March, Shenzhen and Shanghai successively entered lockdown mode. Residents in many controlled communities have made it a daily routine to compete for groceries and takeout orders. The anxiety caused by the inability to buy vegetables on social media is no less than the epidemic itself. Fresh e-commerce, chain supermarkets, offline markets, and convenience stores—all fresh food retail formats are facing unprecedented order pressure under the epidemic. The concentrated rigid demand triggered by the epidemic is an opportunity to observe the current fresh food retail formats, including their respective advantages and disadvantages, and the potential for breakthroughs in the future.
星影The Life-and-Death Game of Childhood Flavors: Ovaltine 'Leaves', ColaCao 'Disappears'
Before home quarantine, I happened to see ColaCao's rolled cake at a convenience store near my office. ColaCao? A familiar yet unfamiliar name. Reflecting on it, it seems we haven't seen the iconic yellow can with a red lid of ColaCao's powdered drink on shelves for a long time. Even the rolled cake still on sale is squeezed into a small corner of the shelf. In contrast, Ovaltine is always visible in convenience stores and supermarkets: Ovaltine oat milk drinks, Ovaltine sandwich cookies, Ovaltine sandwich cakes, Ovaltine lava bread, and even Ovaltine-flavored ice cream... However, in our childhood memories, the most common form of Ovaltine was a powder similar to ColaCao's. As the tide of the times surges forward, why has ColaCao, a childhood memory, 'disappeared'? And why has Ovaltine chosen to step out of the powdered drink category? Two international brands with many similarities, yet why do they have such different fates today?
FBIFDingdong Maicai and MissFresh: Neither Can Claim the Top Spot
Nine months ago, MissFresh and Dingdong Maicai raced to become the 'first listed fresh food e-commerce company,' with Shanghai as a key battleground. Now, amid Shanghai's COVID outbreak and surging demand, both companies, which rely on the front-warehouse model, are struggling with issues like stockouts, delivery delays, and food safety concerns, raising questions about the viability of their business model and financial health.
开菠萝财经团队Quantum Hema
Hema is undergoing organizational streamlining and layoffs to control costs, shifting from a pure online model to a dual online-offline strategy. The company faces challenges in achieving profitability and is considering independent financing at a $10 billion valuation.
谭宵寒Yonghui's Dilemma
On the evening of March 8, Yonghui Superstores disclosed its operating results for January and February 2022, with total revenue of about 20.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of about 3%, and operating net profit of about 760 million yuan. This article analyzes Yonghui's strategic goals, organizational adjustments, business formats, and category planning, exploring how traditional supermarkets can make choices when facing the dilemma of new competition from fresh food e-commerce models.
我是庄帅The Underlying Logic of Hema Explained in One Go
This article analyzes Hema's supply chain, membership stores, neighborhood stores, independent operation, retail model, valuation, and the impact of economic downturn, arguing that Hema's losses are valuable and its long-term logic is becoming clearer.
蒋文伟In the 40 Billion Yuan Chili Sauce Market, Neither Laoganma nor Hubang Can Save It
Laoganma, which is appearing less frequently, has raised prices, breaking the price benchmark in the chili sauce market. As new brands like Hubang enter, the market may expand, but Laoganma's dominance is challenged by changing consumer tastes and increased competition.
关注老干妈的Understanding Hema: The Key to Retail's Next 20 Years
Hema is planning a funding round, while various new retail models have fought from first-tier to fifth-tier cities over the past two to three years, severely weakening traditional retail giants but also leaving themselves struggling. This outcome was foreseeable before the pandemic, which only created an illusion of prosperity, ultimately benefiting consumers but losing investors money. Today, amid the most intense transformation in China's retail industry, we should consider what retail will look like in 20 years. We believe Hema best represents the future. This analysis is based on interviews with over 20 experts and research on more than 30 Hema stores.
蒋文伟How Are Convenience Stores at Gas Stations Doing?
For every Sinopec gas station, there is an Easy Joy convenience store. The era of 'making money by just lying down at a gas station' is long gone. Under the carbon neutrality context, the sales prospects of oil products are declining, and non-oil sales were once seen as the best solution to offset the profit decline from refined oil. In 2014, Sinopec Chairman Fu Chengyu expressed strong optimism about non-oil sales, calling it 'a gold mine with huge potential.' After 15 years of transformation, Sinopec has become China's largest convenience store chain. How did it achieve this?
华商韬略Hema Closes Stores to Survive
Hema's shift towards profitability is closely tied to Alibaba's operational strategy adjustments. After facing a major crisis last year, Alibaba implemented an operational responsibility system, requiring each business unit to sustain itself. As Alibaba's 'prodigal son,' Hema opened its first store in 2016, attracting attention and imitators, but after six years of trials and errors, it must now focus on profitability and survival.
AI财经社Hypermarket Model Retreats from First-Tier Cities: Old Neighbors Say They Only Go for Promotions, Community Group Buying Is More Convenient
Another large supermarket has disappeared in Guangzhou. On February 28, the Carrefour Wanguo store, which had served the Haizhu District community for 20 years, closed due to lease expiration. This follows the closures of Wangfujing, Modeng Department Store's Haigou store, and Walmart's Yunjing store within the past six months.
郭梓昊