Stabilizing prices, stabilizing people's hearts, ensuring supply and people's livelihood, creating new scenarios, and supporting
policies
Commuters can buy breakfast and snacks at the D+ store in the corner of the transfer platform; when the epidemic is at home, the vegetable through train "goes straight" to the door; places an order late at night, and the hot supper is delivered immediately... Beijing, more than 90,000 The outlets in the quarter-hour service circle such as vegetable retail, convenience stores, community supermarkets, and terminal distribution are like the pulse of our city, beating and active all day long, especially since this year, in the efficient coordination of epidemic prevention and control In the process of social and economic development, the "convenience economy" has always supported the "network bottom" of the city's operation, and has played a "beneficial" and "inclusive" role for the normal operation of the national economy and people's livelihood.
At the same time, the convenience economy has also become an important part of the economic system with the characteristics of the capital.
A strong chassis supporting "guaranteed supply"
This round of epidemic since April 22 has been fierce, but the supply has never been disconnected, which is due to the strong chassis of the convenient economy——
Wholesale end guarantee "big market".
Taking the week from May 9 to 14 as an example, the average daily market volume of vegetables in the city was 26,000 to 29,000 tons, which was at a normal or high level; the average daily market volume of pork and eggs in the seven major agricultural wholesale markets remained above 420 tons. , the supply is sufficient; the supply of grain and oil market is stable.
The retail side guarantees "stocking".
Since the current round of the epidemic, the stocking volume of rice, noodles, grains, oils, vegetables and fruits, meat, eggs, and epidemic prevention materials in Carrefour Supermarket has been 2 to 3 times that of normal; the stocking of daily necessities in Wumart Supermarket has increased by 30%; Jingkelong Supermarket has launched two The distribution center has a 24-hour emergency distribution mechanism to increase the frequency of store replenishment.
"The last store was closed at almost 1 am, and at 4 am, the vacant shelves were filled again." Xu Lina, secretary of the Wumart Group Party Committee and spokesperson, recalled that on April 24. Affected by the intensification of the epidemic in Chaoyang District, he said that from the beginning of Chaoyang District to the phenomenon of hoarding and panic buying in stores in various districts.
With the significant increase in passenger flow, when the sales of people's livelihood commodities such as vegetables, meat, eggs, rice and noodles reach 2-3 times the daily sales, Wumart responded quickly and acted quickly to fully meet the shopping needs of the people.
On April 25, the shelves were replenished for three times, and 1,600 tons of rice and flour oil were replenished, which was 6 times the daily replenishment.
The vegetable replenishment is 1,500 tons, which is more than 5 times the daily replenishment.
At the same time, all districts started monitoring mechanisms in a timely manner to keep track of supply, sales, inventory, prices, etc.
For example, Xicheng District has opened a temporary vegetable storage bank to replenish individual supermarkets and people's life service centers.
Haidian District relies on the "point-to-point" monitoring and replenishment guarantee mechanism for daily necessities, and plays a role in terminal monitoring. It finds that the replenishment is slow and short-term out of stock, etc., and prompts enterprises in time.
Ballast stone to ensure "stable price"
The price is stable and the people are stable.
According to the data released by the Municipal Bureau of Statistics, from January to April, the prices of the eight categories of goods and services that make up the CPI in Beijing showed a "six liters and two drops", and the "two drops" included daily necessities and services, among which the prices of food, tobacco and alcohol It was down 0.1% year-on-year.
Bian Jing, deputy captain of the Beijing Investigation Team of the National Bureau of Statistics and spokesperson, pointed out that, on the whole, the supply of major fresh food such as pork and fresh vegetables in Beijing is sufficient. A drop of about 0.24 percentage points.
In April, the market volume of vegetables in northern producing areas increased, while prices fell seasonally, and the price of fresh vegetables dropped by 12% month-on-month.
According to data released by the Municipal Bureau of Commerce on June 1, in the past week, the average daily market volume of vegetables in the seven major agricultural wholesale markets exceeded 21,000 tons, which is at a normal level, and the wholesale price dropped by nearly 12% week-on-week; The transaction volume was 360 tons, the supply was stable, and the price dropped slightly compared with the previous period; the average daily egg listing volume remained above 360 tons, the supply was sufficient, and the wholesale price fell by 3.5% week-on-week; the grain and oil market was running smoothly.
A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned that in order to stabilize prices, convenience supermarkets have also made great efforts.
Yonghui Supermarket, as a supply guarantee unit in Fengtai District, sells prices at or below the price set by the government, and there is no price increase; Jingkelong Supermarket strictly implements the unified pricing of the headquarters, and strictly prohibits private price adjustment; Wumart Supermarkets lock prices in the system and so on.
Create a new scene of "convenience"
The stronger function of the convenience economy is the convenience of the people.
The subway convenience store that just "rooted" in the subway in July last year has become the most convincing "application scenario" for convenience, which is more focused on the tidal purchasing power of citizens.
Bread, sandwiches, coffee, yogurt... With the unblocking of the city's traffic, I saw in the Jingdong convenience store of Metro Line 14 Laiguangying Station at 7:00 in the morning, light food popular with office workers filled the entire shelf. .
Many office workers will quickly choose their favorite food, and then go to work in a nearby office building.
Convenience stores like this have different main products at different stations. For example, at Dongdan Station of the subway, Jingqing Convenience Store focuses on time-honored foods such as Yili bread and Beibingyang beverages; at Jinyu Hutong and Happy Valley Station, D+ convenience stores are aimed at tourists. Passengers have introduced pre-packaged food; while many Lawson convenience stores feature Internet celebrity products, such as snow skin moon cakes, which are very popular with office workers.
A reporter from Beiqing Daily noticed that subway convenience stores also adhere to the principle of small profits but quick turnover.
Miao Dong, general manager of D+ convenience store, which has opened a total of 36 stores in the Beijing subway, said that the subway requires convenience stores to have the same price in the same city, and the price has set an upper limit, which is consistent with stores in other scenarios.
"We will also cooperate with banks or brands to carry out some preferential activities for subway passengers to attract passengers to buy. In the future, some discounts for subway passengers will be gradually launched to achieve the purpose of small profits but quick turnover."
In an interview with Beiqing Daily, some operators said that on the way to profitability, these subway convenience stores still have more homework to do, such as how to make it easier for passengers to enter the convenience store for consumption and truly enjoy convenient and fast services. ; How to do a good job of complementing the "ground" and "underground" service functions.
Policy toolbox escort
A reporter from the Beiqing Daily noticed that a package of systematic and pragmatic policy tools has given more "confidence" to "stable goods and stable prices".
As early as February 2020, Beijing issued "Several Measures on Responding to the Impact of the Pneumonia Epidemic of Novel Coronavirus Infection to Promote the Sustainable and Healthy Development of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises", which clarified that citizens who are severely affected by the epidemic or who are involved in the prevention and control of the epidemic will protect the basic needs of citizens. For the establishment of key chain restaurants (breakfast), vegetable stores (fresh food supermarkets), convenience stores and other outlets in life, they will be given support such as housing rent, and the upper limit of the support ratio has been increased from 50% to 70%.
In particular, on April 22 this year, the Beijing Municipal Government issued "Several Measures on Continuing to Increase Support for Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises and Accelerating the Recovery and Development of Difficult Enterprises". Stores, front warehouses, chain pharmacies and other projects will be given financial support, and in principle, the amount of support will not exceed 50% of the total approved actual investment.
At the same time, in terms of reducing the expenditure on epidemic prevention and control of enterprises, it is mainly to carry out regular nucleic acid testing of employees free of charge for the catering, retail, cruise taxi, takeaway, express delivery industries, and small, medium and micro enterprises engaged in business activities related to imported non-cold chain goods.
The "Beijing Implementation Plan for Coordinating Epidemic Prevention and Control and Stabilizing Economic Growth", which was newly released on June 2 this year, also clarified that in 2022, small and micro enterprises and individuals in the Beijing-registered or tax-paying service industry that lease various state-owned houses in Beijing will be Industrial and commercial households will be exempted from rent for 3 to 6 months, of which eligible supermarket chains, convenience stores, and catering companies will implement it on a store-by-store basis.
"Last year, our cost of nucleic acid testing reached 1 million yuan. The introduction of the free policy gave us a sigh of relief. The rent reduction and exemption can be implemented in stores, and we can save millions of dollars in Chaoyang District. For the rent, I feel that I have more confidence in the guarantee." Xu Lina said.
Text/Reporter Xie Li Li Jia Liu Yang
Photography / reporter Huang Liang