Keeping a firm eye on the "vegetable basket" and "escorting" supply and stable prices for the Spring Festival market
■ Chief reporter Xu Jinghui
Yesterday afternoon, Du Junyi, deputy head of the tenth detachment of the Enforcement Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, set off together with his four friends. This is an unannounced inspection—that is, an on-site inspection without notifying the merchant in advance.
"Before and after the Spring Festival, our inspection focuses on the stability of prices of vegetables, meat, poultry and eggs." He said that there are more people staying in Shanghai this Spring Festival for the New Year, and the people are most concerned about the issue of "hot spot tracking" by law enforcement officers.
To ensure that vegetable prices are basically stable during the Spring Festival, from January 30, the city's market supervision departments at all levels will send personnel to supermarket stores, large wholesale markets, and farmer's markets to carry out special inspections every day.
The hard work of market supervisors has "escorted" the price stability of the Shanghai Spring Festival market.
There are horizontal price comparisons and vertical professional skills
Du Junyi led the team into a hypermarket and went straight to the fresh food area as soon as he entered the door.
Here, there is a dazzling array of vegetable varieties, many of which are marked with hot prices.
Horizontal comparison is a ruler.
Law enforcement officer Liu Chunliang took out his mobile phone, and the two charts above were "homework" done in advance: one is a statistical table of key vegetable price monitoring data collected by the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, listing more than ten common vegetables in Shanghai in the previous week. The price list covers multiple channels such as Shanghai supermarkets, farmer’s markets, e-commerce platforms, etc.; there is also a statistical table of key vegetable sales price data on Shanghai’s large e-commerce platforms. Previously, the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau organized the city’s fresh food e-commerce The operator held an appointment meeting on stabilizing vegetable prices, and the fresh food e-commerce company uploaded a price list every day for reference.
"These two tables can help us grasp the price dynamics horizontally." Liu Chunliang pointed to the price of radish for comparison. The monitoring price of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission is about 2.44 yuan/jin, and the price in the store is 1.98 yuan/jin, which is at a normal level. .
Vertical comparison is professional skill.
Before entering the door, several law enforcement officers habitually checked the preferential information, and they were more concerned about whether the original price was true than the hot price.
"Improper price behaviors include low price and high knots, false discounts, non-fulfillment of price commitments, etc., which require comprehensive investigations based on the counter checkout situation and historical prices." Du Junyi told reporters that early last year, market supervision law enforcement officers After investigating the behavior of a large supermarket in Shanghai to drive up vegetable prices, it was after the counter checkout situation was called, and the mystery of the price "three jumps in a day" was discovered.
Scrape in the numbers, look for problems in the variables
Looking at prices, we have to deal with numbers.
To get a little bit from a pile of report figures and quickly see the clues, you need a few "brushes."
After reading the vegetable counter, Du Junyi and his friends came to the meat counter and flipped through dozens of pages of proof materials. He shook his head and said, "This material should not belong to the pork in front of you." The clerk said hurriedly. "The pork has just arrived, and the materials are still in the office." The reporter was surprised when he was watching. Du Junyi pointed to a few numbers on different pages and explained, ◆Next to the second edition (the first edition is continued) from this batch of pork The date of purchase, the quantity of purchases, and the daily sales of the store can roughly predict that the pork should be "new".
He said that during the Spring Festival holiday, the purchase price of each batch of pork is different, and special attention must be paid. "When we inspect the Spring Festival, we must not only pay attention to the selling price, but also track the purchase price. Once the price changes, we can know which one. Only when there are variables in the link, can the problem be solved more targeted."
Du Junyi said that this year, the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau made a plan for law enforcement inspections during the Spring Festival in advance, and the inspections were orderly. "All of our law enforcement officers stay in place to ensure stable and orderly prices in the Spring Festival market."
While Du Junyi and other law enforcement officers were preparing to go through the back-end data, they ran into grassroots law enforcement officers from the Xuhui District Market Supervision Bureau who were preparing to conduct inspections on special equipment safety and food safety.
During the Spring Festival, these silently dedicated market regulators are fully committed to guarding the stability and transparency of the "vegetable basket" prices in the megacity of Shanghai.