China News Service, June 11th. According to Malaysia’s Sin Chew Daily, June 14 is the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi is absolutely indispensable for the Dragon Boat Festival. Every year during this festival, there will be a boom in buying zongzi.
Due to the epidemic, the merchants thought that the sales of zongzi would be unsatisfactory. However, they did not expect that the sales situation was unexpectedly good. The sales of some businesses increased by at least 20% to 30% compared with last year.
Zongzi store sales are slow
Because of the seriousness of the new crown epidemic, people have reduced their outings, and the total blockade restricts the movement range of 10 kilometers. It is inconvenient for people to go out shopping. Therefore, the response of Zongzi stores has been slightly slow, and most of the vendors have reduced the volume of goods.
However, the delivery service of zongzi has become very popular. Orders are endless. Some merchants have received orders as early as a month ago. There are even out-of-state purchasing agents who can get hundreds of them at a time. The market is very hot.
Cao Peijun: Join the takeaway platform to have a fleet of deliveries
Cao Peijun, the owner of Li Tai's sugar water tea room, said that she has been selling rice dumplings for 3 years, and the sales have been getting better year after year, and she did not expect this year to be even better than last year.
She said that the tea room also sells zongzi. Some customers who come to pack will buy one or two to eat. The sales in the store are comparable to the previous ones. However, this year she has more take-out services and the order sales are booming. At present, take-out orders account for most of the sales. .
"I have joined the delivery service application, they have fleet delivery, I have a promotion on Facebook, and I have received orders with friends to help deliver them. This year there are more orders from Klang and Bukit Mertajam, especially the original one in Bukit Mertajam. There are many customers who like to eat my food. Thanks to their support, the purchasing agents over there have received quite a lot of orders, and they personally came to carry the rice dumplings back to the customers."
She said that about 10 days ago, more people bought zongzi, and orders came in successively.
Zeng Yuzhang: Youzi online shopping for parents
Hakka pillow dumpling vendor Zeng Yuxi said that this year's market was unexpectedly good and better than ever, with sales increasing by 20% to 30%.
She pointed out that she had received orders one month ago, and orders are still coming. The best sellers are their signature Hakka Pillow Rice Dumplings, Mei Cai Kou Pork Dumplings and Red Soy Dumplings.
She said that she has been selling zongzi for many years and has had many regular customers. In addition, she has sold through the Internet and has delivery services. During the epidemic, it is not convenient for customers to go out. Takeaway has become a very important channel for buying and selling.
"At the moment of the epidemic, there are many children in other places who don't want their elderly parents to go out to buy rice dumplings, so they pre-order them and send them to their parents for the holiday."
Chen Yuanyu: Special flavors can only be made on order
Pastry owner Chen Yuanyu said that the current sales of rice dumplings are pretty decent, and it is difficult to estimate the quantity.
"People's consumption habits are different. In the past, most people bought it on the right day. Now it may be bought early for the holidays, so it is difficult to grasp. Sometimes a lot of people buy, sometimes not much."
He said that nowadays outsiders cannot come back, and there are not many people in the family, so most of the guests pack it themselves or buy some to eat.
At present, most of the stocks are ordinary flavors, including bacon rice dumplings, lye rice dumplings and vegetarian rice dumplings. As for some more special flavors, such as millet rice dumplings and blue flower Nyonya rice dumplings, I don't dare to make more or order them.
Liu Huamei: I don’t want to buy rice dumplings this year if there is a shortage of manpower
Hawker Liu Huamei said that she has been selling zongzi at SPPK market for more than ten years, and did not sell it for the first time this year. In addition to her age and lack of staff, she also considered the impact of the epidemic, so she simply stopped selling zongzi this year.
She said that she usually sells flowers in the market for more than 20 years, but because of the total blockade, the flower industry is a non-essential industry, so she dare not sell it, and now sells some fruits and vegetables.
(Lin Caijie)