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Deep Dive | Can You Actually Make Money Opening a Convenience Store?
This article explores the profitability of convenience stores in China, covering mom-and-pop shops, 7-11 franchises, unmanned stores, and capital-backed chains like Bianlifeng. Based on interviews and field research, it analyzes costs, margins, and key success factors, concluding that while traditional stores can be profitable, they require hard work, and emerging models face significant challenges.
蛋解创业Yonghui, Wumart, Walmart... A Comprehensive Look at 2018 Single-Store Sales and Market Share of 13 Major Retailers!
Recently, Sun Art Retail released its 2018 financial report, also disclosing market share and average single-store sales (excluding tax) for major hypermarket brands from 2016 to 2018. This article provides a detailed breakdown for reference.
New Distribution7-Eleven's Slow Pace vs. China's Fast Convenience Stores
Japan's 7-Eleven is the benchmark for convenience stores, but its development in China has been slow and often criticized. However, despite opening fewer stores, Beijing's 7-Eleven is profitable and outperforms many local competitors, highlighting the importance of profitability over expansion speed.
房煜Top 10 Predictions for New Consumption in 2019: The Rise of Discount Stores and the Era of Low-Desire Consumption
The author releases annual predictions for new consumption trends. For 2019, they foresee the rise of product-oriented brands, the growth of discount stores, the popularity of cash-flow consumer projects, and the emergence of niche brands, among other trends.
龙猫1989The 24-Hour Battle: Convenience Stores Never Sleep
Convenience stores, open 365 days a year and 24 hours a day, have become a lifestyle and spiritual dimension for urban dwellers. However, the industry faces challenges from capital-driven rapid expansion and intense competition from e-commerce giants, leading to closures and strategic shifts.
丁甜Does Hema Deserve Such Adulation?
Despite the praise and adoration Hema Fresh has received, a closer look at its data and business model reveals significant issues, including heavy subsidies, high fulfillment costs, and questionable profitability, leading to doubts about its long-term sustainability.
祁建宝The Ownership Change of Quanshi: A Mystery
Quanshi, a well-known convenience store chain in China, has been fully acquired, ending months of speculation. The buyer is believed to be linked to a former executive of Yinlu, though the exact details remain unclear.
新经销刘少德2019, New Business Logic: From Selling Goods to Supermarkets to Buying Traffic from Them!
As the economic cycle enters a normal trough, businesses must adapt to new realities. The key shift is from selling products to supermarkets to buying traffic from them, recognizing that consumers hold the decision-making power and that understanding traffic is crucial for survival and growth.
刘润How Can Traditional Retailers Save Themselves Amid the Wave of Store Closures?
In the new retail era, the most valuable data is that which is accumulated around customers and products through continuous connection and transactions. Traditional retail enterprises must undergo digital transformation by establishing a digital architecture, digital customers, digital products, and digital operations to achieve precise marketing and improve efficiency.
新经销团队FMCG Winter: How to Embrace "IP" for Warmth and Unlock a Hundred-Billion Incremental Market?
As the 2019 Spring Festival approaches, FMCG brands are leveraging IP collaborations to drive sales, from the Palace Museum's cultural products to Peppa Pig merchandise. This article explores IP commercialization trends, successful cases, and strategies for brands to connect with consumers and build private traffic, while also addressing industry pain points and future opportunities.
王军300 Million Yuan in Financing Ignites Community Group Buying: Who Will Decline and Who Will Surpass in 2019?
Despite the capital winter, community group buying is booming. It is rumored that famous investor Zhu Xiaohu was once turned away from 'Xingsheng Youxuan' because of his 'plain' appearance. This phenomenon of investors chasing entrepreneurs has not been seen for a long time. From former Tencent strategic investment directors to executives of old O2O companies like Aixianfeng; from traditional Walmart and New Yijia executives to former employees of Alibaba, Baidu, and JD.com, many big-name entrepreneurs are rushing into this track. Hot, hot, hot!
New DistributionExclusive | Latest Inventory of National Community Group Buying Platforms in 2019!
Despite the capital winter, community group buying remains red-hot, attracting more entrepreneurs and investors. According to incomplete statistics from New Distribution, 27 companies in this field have received funding totaling nearly 3 billion yuan, with players from offline retail, fresh supply chain, and local services entering the fray.
新经销刘少德Founded 6 Years, Annual Transaction Volume Over 1 Billion: Why Can This Trading Company Profit from B2B?
This article explores why intermediaries will not disappear even if distributors might, and how Caihua Commerce has maintained rapid growth despite competition from Alibaba's Retail Link. It details Caihua's strategies, including product selection and customer tiering, which have enabled profitability.
新经销刘少德Suning Xiaodian Enters Community Group Buying: Following the Trend or Going All In?
Suning Xiaodian has entered community group buying, planning to recruit 25,000 group leaders within three months. The author believes this is not a blind move but a well-planned strategy, given Suning's capital operation expertise and the necessity to defend its offline retail territory.
王军Review of 2018: The 'Ice' and 'Fire' of China's Chain Convenience Stores
Under the new retail trend, small formats, especially convenience stores, are typically fragmented and regional operations, and their business essence will not rapidly iterate due to new technologies and concepts. After short-term capital attention, the industry must return to the core model of traditional formats. What changes is the method, but what remains unchanged is the essence; practitioners should maintain a normal mindset in the face of the current boom. Convenience stores, as a model of proximity and instant consumption, will evolve into an online-offline integrated model centered on membership through data-driven store operations and marketing upgrades, thereby leveraging the core service value of high-density store locations, and new business models such as community group buying will continue to emerge.
王军Can't Hold On! With 3 Billion Yuan in Debt, Another Food Industry Tycoon Files for Bankruptcy Reorganization!
Shocking! Xiamen grain and oil giant 'Zhongsheng' has applied for bankruptcy reorganization. Recently, the Xiamen Intermediate People's Court issued a notice publicly soliciting a reorganizer for Zhongsheng Grain and Oil Group after its bankruptcy. If you don't know this well-known Xiamen private enterprise, you must know 'Shengzhou' cooking oil, a household name across the country, which holds over 65% of the Xiamen market share.
New DistributionNew Retail in 2018: Leading, Integrating, Bubbles, and Catfish Stirring
As 2018 draws to a close, the new retail industry has experienced significant developments, from the continued rise of fresh food supermarkets to the integration of technology in offline retail, the bubble burst of unmanned shelves, and the surge of social e-commerce. Looking ahead to 2019, the industry is expected to focus on supply chain efficiency and tapping into lower-tier city demand.
New DistributionMom-and-Pop Stores: I Am Not a Retail Outsider
In China, there are 6.8 million mom-and-pop stores that have quietly served consumers for decades. Now, as e-commerce giants like Alibaba and JD.com push into offline retail, these stores are being transformed or marginalized. Despite their small size, they account for 40% of retail channel shipments, yet many owners remain skeptical of the new retail buzzwords and the rapid expansion efforts.
古廿What Happened in China's Convenience Store Industry in 2018?
In 2018, China's convenience store industry continued to boom, with regional brands accelerating expansion and foreign brands speeding up store openings to compete in the increasingly crowded first- and second-tier markets. In Shanghai and East China, a convenience store war is underway, with early entrants upgrading and newcomers entering with more advanced concepts. Lawson is about to open its 2,000th store, while Meiyijia, which entered East China in October, quickly captured the market within two months, and the new retail representative Bianlifeng has opened over 200 stores in the region. Across China, the convenience store industry is experiencing growth in store numbers and sales, with regional brands expanding and digital transformation becoming a key trend.
食品君The Essence of Deep Distribution is Building Good Customer Relations, Leveraging Store Owners' Community Ties for Transactions!
Retail is naturally community marketing, as stores rely on stable customers within their trade area. Deep distribution leverages store owners' community relationships to transmit brand information, while new retail and new marketing use digital tools to enhance these community interactions.
刘春雄Is New Retail Failing? | In-depth
Yonghui Superstores is divesting its loss-making new retail segment, while Hema Fresh is slowing its expansion, and traditional supermarkets are showing signs of recovery. Is returning to offline operations the way forward? How will new retail develop?
无冕财经团队10,000 Stores! Three Squirrels Founder Zhang Liaoyuan's Offline New Retail Practice | In-depth
On December 9, the 10th B-end E-commerce Study Tour organized by New Distribution visited the headquarters of Three Squirrels to observe its strategic layout and gameplay in the new retail era—Squirrel Small Stores. As a new retail venture, the "franchise" snack store model differs from traditional franchising. At the event, Three Squirrels' first employee and Chief CBO (Brand Officer) "Shu Xiaofeng" detailed the differences between the "alliance" model and traditional franchising, and expressed the mission of Squirrel Small Stores: "Make it easy to open snack stores worldwide." The goal is to open 10,000 stores.
袁来Convenience Store Count Exceeds 100,000, with Imbalanced Development Between North and South
Convenience stores, with their 24-hour service, are a popular choice for nighttime shopping, but issues like insufficient numbers and poor layout hinder their ability to meet consumer needs. The industry is growing rapidly, yet there is a notable imbalance between northern and southern cities, with southern cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou having much higher store saturation than northern cities like Beijing and Tianjin.
王 珂 罗珊珊Heavyweight: 2019 China FMCG B2B Industry Forecast
Reviewing 2018, it was destined to be an extraordinary year for the FMCG B2B industry. Looking ahead to 2019, the industry will see reduced financing, accelerated full-industry-chain penetration, clearer B2B2C trends, and intensified industry consolidation.
新经销刘少德