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Co-construction and Win-win under Traffic Involution
From November 3 to 5, 2022, the 7th China FMCG Channel Innovation Conference, hosted by New Distribution, a professional new media platform for FMCG, was successfully held in Chengdu. This article is based on the keynote speech by Mr. Li De, General Manager of New E-commerce at Gold Hongye Paper Group, at the sub-forum "Short Video Live Streaming and Private Domain" during the conference, organized and published with authorization.
李德After the Turmoil, How Can FMCG Brands Tap into Community Group Buying?
For brands, community group buying has been a mixed bag. From initial confusion and resistance, to fear of missing out, to the headaches of price chaos after being dragged in, no other channel has caused FMCG brands such anguish in the past two years. Now, with giants battling, layoffs, unpaid wages, closures, and shutdowns, the remaining platforms are only retrenching and focusing on survival. Some believe community group buying is no longer a topic for brands, or even dispensable. But is that really the case? New Distribution has learned that some brands are accelerating their efforts in community group buying, not by competing on low prices, but by effectively solving the problem of offline low-price channel diversion, achieving sales growth of 5-6 times or even 20 times in just a few months.
任文青AndyIs the Endgame for Meituan Sam's Club?
Delivery speed is disrupting the e-commerce retail landscape. Tmall Supermarket offers next-day delivery, JD Supermarket claims one-hour delivery, and Meituan has upgraded to 30-minute delivery. Their common target is instant retail. Earlier, Wang Puzhong, President of Meituan's Home Delivery Business Group, predicted that the instant retail market would reach 1 trillion yuan in five years, with Meituan Flash Shopping aiming for 400 billion yuan. On October 11, Meituan Youxuan announced a brand upgrade to 'Tomorrow's Supermarket' with the slogan 'Really, Really Save,' signaling direct competition with JD Supermarket and Tmall Supermarket.
唐飞Where Are the Opportunities in the Trillion-Yuan Instant Retail Market, and How Can Latecomer Merchants Dance with Wolves?
According to the 'Instant Retail Open Platform Model Research White Paper' released by the China Chain Store & Franchise Association, China's instant retail market is projected to reach 1.2 trillion yuan by 2025, with a compound annual growth rate of over 50%. What exactly is instant retail? Is this new concept just old wine in a new bottle or a genuine market opportunity? What are the reasons behind its rise, and where do the transformation opportunities lie for retail merchants?
李相如JD.com Experiments with Livestreaming for Instant Retail, Real-person Sales, Half-hour Delivery
During this year's Double 11, JD.com is testing livestreaming for its instant retail service, allowing users to watch live broadcasts and receive products within half an hour. This move positions JD.com at the forefront of the industry, combining livestream e-commerce with instant delivery to enhance consumer experience and compete in the rapidly growing instant retail market.
老电Community Group Buying 3.0: The Era of Group Stores
Community group buying has evolved from its 1.0 origin in 2015, through the 2.0 group wholesale phase, to the current 3.0 group store era. Despite these iterations, the core success factor remains the supply chain, which is the most critical and challenging of the three key infrastructures: supply chain, group leaders, and warehousing and distribution.
孟祥飞Why is Douyin Building a Private Domain?
About a month ago, Douyin officially launched its open platform and announced the business carrier of the open platform - Douyin Mini Programs. Originally, mini programs are nothing new, as many platforms from WeChat to Alipay to Baidu have them, and they are not complicated to build, with many third-party service companies in the niche market. However, Douyin's move reflects a very obvious trend: Douyin is starting to focus on private domain traffic, because mini programs are a very typical private domain operation tool. As Douyin's official introduction states, mini programs support public domain - short video/live streaming embedding and distribution, support connecting private domain - IM and group chat sharing, and provide diverse scenarios such as search and fixed entry for revisits.
最话团队From Instant Retail to Tomorrow-Arrival Supermarket: Meituan E-commerce Has No Boundaries
Meituan Youxuan has upgraded its brand positioning to 'Tomorrow-Arrival Supermarket' to expand its business scope and improve efficiency. This move reflects Meituan's strategic adjustment in community group buying, facing both opportunities and challenges in the new competitive landscape.
刘少德Is Instant Retail Revolutionizing E-commerce or Food Delivery?
With the continuous upgrading of new technologies and models in the mobile internet era, a new model and business format has emerged from the 'involution' of e-commerce and food delivery: instant retail. It meets the 'last mile' demand in retail, compressing fulfillment time to between half an hour and one hour. According to a white paper released by the China Chain Store & Franchise Association, the instant retail industry has seen rapid growth and is expected to reach 1.2 trillion yuan by 2025. Is the instant retail trend here? Some say it's just a variant of food delivery, while others see it as another 'fake innovation' by e-commerce platforms after exhausting community group buying and low-tier market e-commerce. However, giants like Alibaba, JD.com, Meituan, and players like PUPU and Dingdong Maicai have all entered the fray in various forms.
关注电商的Meituan is Becoming a Merchandise-Selling Company
Meituan Youxuan has been upgraded from a community group-buying service to a 'Next-Day Arrival Supermarket', signaling Meituan's broader push into e-commerce. With the integration of its e-commerce business and the expansion of product categories, Meituan is solidifying its position in the online retail market.
老电The Battlefield Contracts Again: Dingdong Maicai Exits Xiamen
Dingdong Maicai recently announced it would stop delivery services in Xiamen after October 8, 18:00, with almost no products available on the app and no delivery slots. The company stated this is a normal business optimization and adjustment, and it plans to focus resources on profitable regions.
杨柳Why Do Few Traditional Offline Distributors Succeed in E-commerce?
Many distributor partners often tell me that e-commerce is difficult and challenging. Many have already achieved great success in traditional offline channels, with annual sales exceeding 300 million, 500 million, or even 1 billion yuan, proving their strength and capability. Yet, despite their continuous learning, experimentation, and operation, they still struggle to break through sales bottlenecks, operational sticking points, and profit black holes. Why? There are many differences between online and offline, which traditional offline distributors need to consider and self-reflect on before venturing into e-commerce.
许翔 Ryan XuThe War Between Taobao and Douyin Has Reached a Critical Stage
Four years ago, when Taobao leveraged Douyin for traffic, neither side likely anticipated that their ally would quickly become a rival. On September 6, Uniqlo, which has long topped Taobao's Double 11 apparel sales, held its first livestream on Douyin, not just to clear inventory but also to showcase new products. This marks Douyin as Uniqlo's new battleground. In May, Adidas also brought new products to Douyin's "New Product Awards," achieving sales of 170 million yuan in just seven days. More top apparel brands are leaving Taobao for Douyin.
成如梦An Egg for 30 Cents, a Pound of Potatoes for 50 Cents... Community Group Buying Seems 'Economical,' but Why Must It Be Shut Down?
Before community group buying, people outside the Fifth Ring Road never bought fresh produce online; they preferred the wet market. The rise of community group buying changed that atmosphere, leading to concerns about fairness and the impact on traditional vendors.
酷玩实验室Instant Retail Heats Up: How Can Distributors Catch the O2O Home Delivery Wave?
Since the start of the O2O era in 2014, O2O home delivery has become a key driver of new retail channel revolution. Accelerated by the pandemic, it has grown into a new consumption scenario and a trend optimizing consumer experience. On July 27, the China Chain Store & Franchise Association (CCFA), along with Dada Group and JD's Consumer and Industry Development Research Institute, released a white paper on instant retail open platform models, indicating that instant retail, a key part of O2O home delivery, is set to exceed one trillion yuan by 2025, reaching 1.2 trillion yuan. This article uses three key questions—What, Why, and How—to guide distributors on leveraging O2O for growth.
李文君WendyDo Traditional Distributors Still Have a Chance in Online E-commerce?
A recent Nielsen report shows that offline retail accounts for 60% of China's FMCG retail channels, while online channels are growing. As offline growth stagnates, many traditional distributors are turning to e-commerce for new growth. However, success requires overcoming mindset shifts, building professional teams, and mastering product selection and pricing strategies.
周群Traditional Supermarkets Strike Back at E-commerce
Two pandemics triggered key turning points in China's retail history. In 1995, Carrefour led the charge into the Chinese market, and by the turn of the millennium, hypermarkets were the epitome of modern shopping. However, the SARS outbreak in 2003 gave rise to e-commerce, which eroded the dominance of traditional supermarkets. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, instant retail is enabling traditional supermarkets to counterattack by leveraging local supply and rapid delivery.
联商网Instant Retail: The Battle for Existing Resources and the Organizational Lifeline
In the evolution from food delivery to delivering everything, the importance of retail capability has been significantly elevated. Among the three giants, apart from Meituan, which only recently proposed the 'retail + technology' positioning, JD and Alibaba have long-standing retail expertise with numerous business lines covering both self-operated and platform models. Seamlessly integrating previously independent retail capabilities with instant delivery capabilities is essentially a re-coordination of existing resources, meaning that the current challenges in instant retail are largely organizational.
窄播出品Front Warehouses Have No Downward Path
In August, various e-commerce companies released their financial reports, with mixed results—the first half of 2022 may have already determined the landscape of fresh food e-commerce. However, among the players in the fresh food front warehouse model, there seems to be a different story to tell. Front warehouse player Miss Fresh 'exploded', Dingdong Maicai achieved its first quarterly profit, and latecomer Pupu Supermarket overtook the pack, showing more momentum than Meituan. Among fresh food players focusing on lower-tier markets, those using front warehouse and warehouse-store integrated models are at a disadvantage, but no one is willing to cede the market. For asset-heavy front warehouse players, the moment they are provoked by competitors into a land-grab mindset, they may have already fallen into a strategic trap in lower-tier markets.
吴依涵The Frequently Mentioned Douyin Omni-Interest E-commerce: What's the Playbook?
In an interview, Yi Xing used Man Xiao Bao as an example to illustrate the transition from interest-based e-commerce to shelf e-commerce. The process involves brand exposure, influencer seeding, livestream conversion, and finally transitioning to shelf e-commerce.
田静The Imagination of Instant Retail: How Hard Tech 'Mods' a 10-Square-Meter Smart Pharmacy
There are only about 8,000 24-hour pharmacies in China, far from meeting the nighttime medication demand. To address this, companies like Meituan are collaborating with pharmacy chains to deploy automated smart pharmacies that use robotics and AI to enable 24/7 service, overcoming cost and labor challenges.
New DistributionLow-temperature Fresh-cut 'Shu Xiaohuang': Innovating the Potato Snack Category
Despite the pandemic hindering the foodservice industry, leisure snacks have emerged as a new wave of consumption. With the rapid development of China's e-commerce platforms, consumer demand is trending toward quality, health, and personalization, prompting snack brands to enrich their offerings and accelerate health-oriented development. For example, French fries: most people think of KFC or McDonald's fried fries, high in oil and calories, expensive, yet enduring in China for 30 years due to their addictive nature. Mai...
沙华Behind Xingsheng Youxuan's City Withdrawals: A Grueling 'Tug-of-War' and a Difficult Self-Rescue
Xingsheng Youxuan, which chose a protracted struggle, has taken another major step back. Even after surviving the summer off-season and approaching the community group-buying peak season, it has not changed its city closure plans. Since August, it has been closing cities one after another, first shrinking provincial operations to provincial capitals, then shutting down even those. Now it has withdrawn from five provinces—Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hebei, and Anhui—and sharply reduced operations in Shandong and Shaanxi. The closures were not sudden; suppliers received advance notice, as daily order volumes in these cities were too low and competitiveness weak.
周逸斐From Livestream Selling to Shelf-Based Marketplace: What Industry Opportunities Has Livestream E-Commerce Unleashed?
Livestream e-commerce, as a new retail business model, has become a new favorite in the industry in the past two years. After an initial peak, it is now leveling off, with strategies shifting from low prices and top anchors to more moderate, business-savvy approaches. This trend is particularly favorable for traditional enterprises, as exemplified by the successful case of Huiyuan, a traditional brand that revitalized its image through Douyin livestreaming, achieving significant sales growth and spillover effects on other platforms.
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