Wuhan's "war epidemic" has entered a tackling stage. In addition to fighting the epidemic, where to buy vegetables, how to buy, and cost-effectiveness have become the topics that people in this city care about most.
Data Map: Citizens wear masks to buy vegetables. China News Agency reporter Li Chenyun's photo is irrelevant
The first step in shopping: Where to buy vegetables?
On January 23, Wuhan closed the city. The Zhang Lin's family had stocked a large amount of meat and vegetables in advance, but the family had 6 mouthfuls and had little left on February 5.
Although there are supermarkets nearby, the whole family is nervous next floor, disinfecting inside and out, let alone going to the supermarket.
In order to buy food, Zhang Lin and her husband and mother-in-law joined the group buying group organized by the residents of the community. The group provided packages and transferred the money to the chef who bought the food in advance. take. The whole process will not touch anyone, and the master registration will stand far away.
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Zhang Lin thought it was very convenient and safe. However, some people had troubles in the group a few days ago, and said that the order was not good. As a result, the master would not give them food in the community.
There is no way, they can only switch to the fresh food platform and other group buying groups to buy vegetables. The platform has limited transportation capacity and often spends no time. Buying in the group depends on fate. Zhang Lin is a bit worried.
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Grocery Shopping Step 2: Can't Buy? Find group buying!
With the escalation of epidemic prevention and control measures, on February 11, all residential districts in Wuhan implemented closed management. Around February 17, various districts in Wuhan have successively notified that large-scale commercial supermarkets are no longer open to individuals, and promote community group purchases and centralized distribution.
On February 17, the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Commerce released the "Wuhan Online Grocery Shopping Strategy", which provides 33 online grocery shopping platforms, and many merchants in Wuhan have also opened a group buying hotline. The reporter saw on multiple platforms that most of the package delivery numbers were more than 20, and some even reached 200.
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Therefore, for many people, finding "organization" has become the most important step in shopping.
In the "Wuhan Neighborhood" Wuhan WeChat account, Wuhan citizens can register for information and find community groups. If you don't have a community group, you can also search for the surrounding area and contact the neighbors to initiate a group purchase.
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Theoretically this is the case, but the process of buying food for many groups is still in a twist. Zhang Huan, who lives in Hongshan District, Wuhan, said that their community property organized a group of grocery shopping, and everyone placed an order and delivered it to the gate of the community, and then called for food. The food is also quite cheap, but the property has stopped selling on the 19th because of insufficient staff and too large quantities.
On February 5th, a dispatcher wearing protective clothing was working at Wujing Road, Wuhan, Hubei. Photo by Zhang Chang from China News Agency
The situation of Penman's family is different. She said that most of the platforms will be delivered to the community with dozens of copies, but many people in their community property cannot return to Wuhan and cannot go to work. The owners can only organize themselves. With the "Head of Mission", we will be volunteers to buy materials for everyone.
Penman also lamented that being a volunteer is not easy. Group purchases must be paid before they are shipped. They are afraid of being cheated by the other party. They are also afraid that the dishes will come and be taken by others. Something has arrived.
Data map: A community worker in Wuhan purchases daily necessities for residents. Photo by An Yuan
Grocery shopping step 3: Is the price affordable?
"When I see the group purchase, my head hurts," some netizens in Wuhan sigh. In the past, online shopping was easy, but now it takes a lot of effort to browse the food, compare various packages, and meet the right time, so that you can buy what you want.
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Can you spend so much effort on online shopping to meet your needs? The reporter noticed that the packages sold on various platforms include vegetable packages, meat packages, fruit packages, daily necessities packages, seasoning packages, as well as snack packages, milk packages, instant noodle packages, week black duck packages, and so on.
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The reporter observed that the prices of various platforms were different. Most of the vegetables and fruit dishes were below 100 yuan, 50 yuan less, 99 yuan more expensive, and meat packages were more than 100 yuan.
For example, a 50 yuan package in a large supermarket in Wuhan, which includes tomatoes, cauliflower, cabbage, onions, yellow cabbage, potatoes, one kilogram each, plus an onion ginger garlic.
And some platforms only indicate how many kinds of vegetables, there is no specific category and weight, the quality of the dishes depends on luck, some netizens liken it to "open the blind box", you will never know what it is before you open it.
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Zhang Lin shared a 99-yuan vegetable package from their group, which contains 8 varieties with a total weight of 20 kg. There is also a 199 yuan package, which includes a chicken, 24 eggs and 10 kinds of vegetables. In her opinion, it was acceptable in extraordinary times.
But two days ago they grabbed a piece of fruit, and Zhang Lin thought it was a bit expensive. A total of 350 yuan, including bananas, apples, cantaloupe and mandarin oranges, bananas 5 yuan each, and limited purchase.
Zhang Lin bought some fruits. Photo courtesy
Yue Yue is more sensitive to prices. She thinks the dishes are still a bit expensive, and sometimes the food she buys is rotten. She usually has no savings and pays rent every month. "I don't know what to do next month after eating this month." She also raised objections in the group, but then many people refuted her. It was not easy for everyone to buy vegetables, so she didn't say more.
In a vegetable sorting center of a cooperative in Dongxihu District of Wuhan, the staff is making "set vegetables". Photo by Zhang Chang from China News Agency
The problem behind group buying:
Can capacity keep up? What about the elderly?
When everyone needs online shopping, distribution becomes a new issue. Sometimes, e-commerce platforms will occasionally display the words of insufficient capacity and stop delivery. Sometimes meat is relatively difficult to buy, Penman said, and the people in the group had been staring for half a month without success.
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For some young parents, it is not the grocery shopping but the maternal and infant supplies. Zhang Yan bluntly said that there are many young couples and babies in his community, and there is a great demand for baby and baby supplies such as milk powder and diapers, but it is difficult to buy them now.
The same is true of pets. The cat food in Yue Yue's house is almost finished, but she has almost died before she can buy a new one. These days she finds a cat food that can be delivered, but the packaging cost is only 99 yuan, and she is a little hesitant.
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In addition, there are still some difficult problems to be solved online, such as some old communities have no owners, some independent buildings have no people, and many elderly people who live alone do not use smart phones.
Government sponsored supply
Love Carrots everywhere
Aiming at the difficulty for Wuhan people to buy vegetables, the state has intensively introduced a series of policies and measures.
On the 20th, Lian Weiliang, a member of the Central Steering Group and deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that the state had transferred 2,000 tons of central reserve meat to Wuhan. Also prepared 80,000 tons of rice, 80,000 tons of flour, 120,000 tons of edible oil, 36,000 tons of pork, 29,000 tons of vegetables, 2900 tons of eggs, 12 million packets of instant noodles, 300 tons of ham sausage, 3400 tons of cold fresh meat, and 1,000 tons of frozen food can be transferred to Hubei whenever necessary.
Data Map: On February 17, 600 tons of vegetable products were loaded at Fuzhou East Station and ready to be shipped to Hubei. Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Dongming
In addition, the Ministry of Commerce has deployed and established a nine-provincial joint insurance and joint supply cooperation mechanism. From January 23 to February 19, eight provinces and municipalities in the nine provinces and cities' joint guarantee and joint supply mechanism have transferred 21,000 tons of fruits and vegetables to Hubei.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has launched a daily price report system for "vegetable basket" products, and organized and coordinated the establishment of a "one-to-one" guarantee mechanism for major vegetable production areas in Guangxi, Hainan, Shandong, and Hebei and key cities and regions such as Wuhan.
On February 20, in the orchard of fruit grower Ye Yuhua in Zhuyu Village, Chang'an Town, Rong'an County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, a caring person loaded sugar oranges into the car and prepared to ship to Wuhan. Photo by Tan Kaixing
Vegetable and fruit donation vehicles across the country have successively driven to Hubei and Wuhan, Shandong Shouguang 1120 tons, Jinan 300 tons, Hunan over 600 tons, Yunnan Tonghai County 380 tons, Guizhou villagers 20 tons, Guangxi villagers 15 tons ...
Many of these caring cabbages were distributed to residents for free by community organizations. Some residents of Huangpi District of Wuhan said that they had received free food some time ago, and each community had different dishes. Each of them received 4 kinds of vegetables.
"The dishes you donated are so delicious!" After the netizens in Wuhan received the love dishes, they posted thanks online.
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More measures in Wuhan:
Caring for special groups and cracking down on prices
Wuhan has successively introduced a number of measures to protect residents' living needs from aspects such as supply capacity, supply capacity, distribution methods, and prices.
Wuhan Qingshan District community staff counted the daily necessities purchased for residents. Photo by An Yuan
On February 21, Li Zhan, deputy secretary and mayor of Jianghan District Committee of Wuhan City, stated that Jianghan District has set up delivery points at 623 control bays in the district, through group purchase, collective purchasing, online platforms, community fresh through trains, etc. Methods to try to address the needs of residents' living materials and medicines.
For the extremely poor people, elderly people living alone, the disabled, left-behind children, etc., the community also arranges special people to deliver meals and medicines to ensure that they do not have accidents during the control period.
The community in Xinshui Street, Jianghan District, Wuhan delivers food to the elderly in the area. Photo by Zhang Chang from China News Agency
The Wuhan Municipal Market Supervision Bureau also issued a notice to further regulate the behavior of "online" group purchase package prices during epidemic prevention and control.
If non-civilian essential consumer products are not included in the online group purchase package for bundling; in addition to the total price indicated in the online group purchase package, the included products shall be separately listed; the price of online products shall not be higher than the marked price of similar products in offline stores; Price, operators must not collude with each other, manipulate market prices, and so on.
(At the request of the interviewees, some people changed their names to pseudonyms)
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