What happened to the hawkers who couldn't stand the "vegetable revolution"

　　Recently, the question of whether Internet giants should enter the community group buying has become a dispute involving all parties actively.

　　Community group buying has existed for a long time, but community group buying is a trend that flourishes in the special background of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

The giants seem to have discovered the treasure of community group buying overnight, and they must lay out and compete quickly.

This situation seems familiar.

There have been similar situations in online car-hailing, bike-sharing, takeaway...

Food, you have to rush to eat it?

　　I think that the view that "Internet + community group buying" is not innovative is unfair.

In fact, this is also the inertial impact of advantageous industries on disadvantaged industries.

In order to grab market share in the early stage, various subsidies are indispensable for the giants. Consumers may buy vegetables far below the market price.

However, once the war is settled, there are only a few "oligarchs" left in the community group buying business. Can consumers continue to enjoy "welfare"?

Hard to say.

Imagine that there was a zero-dollar free meal for takeaway, but now?

Think about a certain popular fresh app, the price of many dishes is obviously higher than the market price.

　　The giants are rushing forward to see the future profitable space and play the bench game in the open-air cinema in advance.

This is indeed a market behavior, and it seems difficult to find out the legal rules.

However, the community group buying war is at the expense of small stalls and hawkers-even directly breaking their jobs.

This is my biggest worry.

　　One of my elder relatives stopped selling vegetables two or three years ago.

After selling vegetables for 20 to 30 years, he has supported his family and lived a decent life.

In the era of online shopping, he found that business was getting worse and worse, and the number of people going to market stalls to buy vegetables was significantly fewer than before.

Coupled with the fact that they are over sixty years old, they can no longer bear the hardship of approving and carrying vegetables every day.

A vegetable vendor with a Subei accent I met at my door more than ten years ago is famous in the market for buying vegetables and delivering green onions.

His dishes flow fast, so they are fresh, and it is rarely necessary to spray water to increase the "freshness".

But slowly, I found that he gradually bowed his head to "popularity", because his food no longer flowed very quickly, and he also lamented to me that it was not easy to make money.

Recently, I discovered that his stall has changed, and there are a few more empty stalls in the vegetable market.

　　My relative worked as a security guard because he lacked more earning skills.

Another old man who opened a fruit shop at the gate of our community drove a tricycle for three-wheeled vehicles.

"When the times eliminated you, they didn't even say hello", maybe so.

However, letting the vegetable market, the place with the highest concentration of smoke and fire, accelerate the decline, and let the vegetable vendor leave and be confused, is it really an objective law, and is it inevitable?

　　Some people use the sluggishness of supermarkets in the online shopping era to illustrate the cruelty of market competition, shuffling, and "no need to sympathize." By this opportunity.

　　In recent years, changes in food retail terminals and changes in buying and selling are the core reasons for the gradual failure of brick-and-mortar vendors. The community group buying wars launched by giants have crushed the vast majority of vegetable vendors. People-fairies fight, mortals suffer.

The community group buying war may not be the whole reason for the difficult business of vegetable vendors, but it is the heavy thrust behind it.

　　Large companies must look like large companies.

Giants should rethink the proposition of "corporate social responsibility".

When a company grows larger and has a huge amount of resources, it should have an extraordinary realm that is determined to benefit the people, instead of focusing on the three melons in the pockets of civilians and focusing on those that are considered outdated and low. The end, the trafficker pawn-style survival method that should be eliminated.

　　With the sudden increase in public opinion pressure, it is difficult to say how the community group buying battle is heading.

But taking a step back, if the giants are determined to stick to the end and "do not break Loulan and never return", should they devote more attention and resources to the solution after the livelihood of the disadvantaged is broken? Tao?

　　A person who has lived on selling vegetables for most of his life cannot withstand the toss of this "vegetable selling revolution".

The ability of vegetable vendors to resist attacks may be far inferior to that of taxi drivers.

For the sake of traffic, share, and face, it is indeed possible to send the vegetable sellers and the melon sellers back to their hometowns in minutes, but what next?

Are they all pushed to the government?

　　Wu Lichuan Source: China Youth Daily

　　Version 02 on December 16, 2020