Community group dishes cost 16 yuan for a pound of eggplant, why only 6 yuan for a trip to the market?
Yangzi Evening News (Reporter Liu Liyuan) "I just ordered a dish in the community group vegetable group, and a pound of eggplant costs 16 yuan!" "But the eggplant in the vegetable market near my house only sells for 6 yuan a pound." Due to the need for epidemic prevention and control recently, Many restaurants have cancelled dine-in meals, and many citizens working from home are paying more attention to the price of dishes.
From vegetable markets, supermarkets to community group purchases, many people have their own channels for buying vegetables, but the reporter found that sometimes the price difference between the vegetables bought from different channels is quite large.
Eggplant costs 16 yuan per pound, garlic sprouts 20 yuan per pound, and asparagus 20 yuan per pound... A few days ago, Ms. Hu, who lives in Jianye District, Nanjing, bought several vegetables through a community group of vegetables, and couldn't help but sigh at the high price of vegetables.
Unexpectedly, her friend told her that she had just bought vegetables at the vegetable market. The eggplant was 6 yuan per pound and the garlic seedlings was 9 yuan per pound. The price of the vegetables was more than half cheaper.
Why is the price gap so big?
The head of the group said that these vegetables were organic vegetables grown on farmyard manure, and the quality was better, but Ms. Hu was skeptical: although the quality of the vegetables bought in the group was good, But after all, unlike high-end supermarkets with unified packaging, organic certification and traceability, there are so many varieties every day, who can guarantee that they are all grown from farmyard manure?
A citizen told reporters that he joined the community group food group for more than a year. The "group leader" said that he had a friend who bought food directly from Zhongcai. It was really cheap at first, but gradually everyone became accustomed to buying food in the group. The price has "quietly increased", and now it is similar to the price of the surrounding vegetable market. "I would rather walk a few more steps to the vegetable market to buy it, and I can also choose." However, some citizens said that the community group dishes are indeed more convenient, and place an order in the group every day. Picking up the goods at a fixed location saves the trouble of running the vegetable market and supermarket. Especially during the epidemic, the number of people in the community has increased significantly.
In addition to the "group cuisine" model where the "group leader" bids the price, the reporter found that there are also gaps in the price of vegetables between various vegetable markets, between vegetable markets and supermarkets.
Taking eggplants as an example, the Longjiang vegetable market in Gulou is 1 yuan more expensive than the Kexiang vegetable market in Qinhuai. Of course, this is not because the vendors of the vegetable market deliberately raised the price, but the different purchasing channels and the cost of the vegetable market rent. and so on.
Compared with the lively vegetable market, young people may be more inclined to go to the supermarket for shopping.
Large supermarket chains such as Suguo and RT-Mart have their own vegetable bases, and the price of vegetables is often cheaper than that of the vegetable market.