Original title: In 15 days, 20,000 small stores launched, sales tripled, and under the pandemic, are you hungry? Running faster
[TechWeb] On February 17, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens reduced their shopping activities, and the volume of express delivery and takeout businesses skyrocketed.
According to data provided by the Hungry side, since February of its platform, as of February 16, 20,000 small stores across the country have been reviewed, launched the Hungry takeout service, and resumed business. The total sales volume of existing stores increased rapidly in a single day, with a month-on-month increase of nearly 250%.
Now, Hungry Little Brother has become a “community buyer” one after another. Many boys take on the shopping needs of an average of 25 citizens a day.
However, on the Hungry platform, according to the head of the relevant project team, due to the large number of small street stores that have applied to go online, people often work overtime until late at night. The review time for a single store has gone from an average of 3 days to an average of 3 hours now. Up to 5,000 companies can be reviewed every day.
It is expected that by the end of February, 50,000 small street stores will be online to start takeout businesses and resume business.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, in order to meet the skyrocketing demand for takeout, Hungry has continuously adjusted its business pace.
On January 26, Alibaba's local lifestyle service company announced the launch of a “rapid takeout online business”.
On January 30, Word of Mouth Hunger announced the “Five Decisions”, once again clarifying that service merchants will launch takeout functions, maintain their normal operation, or help them resume business as soon as possible.
On February 1, Retail Connect and Hungry Reputation formed a special project team. Retail Connect supports the supply chain of the front-end supply chain of small street stores. Hungry Reputation accelerates approval of these stores to enter the local lifestyle platform. Through digital upgrades, they have more accurate marketing and distribution, and have online and offline service capabilities within a radius of 3 km.
Furthermore, in order to help these online street stores start construction as soon as possible, Hungry Reputation has also provided a number of policies, including commission relief, financial support, and traffic support.
On February 13, Alibaba Group announced its financial report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. Financial reports show that from October to December 2019, its local lifestyle platform (Hungry Plus Reputation) had revenue of 7.584 billion yuan, an increase of 47% over 2018. Revenue mainly came from Hungry's platform commissions, delivery and other service fees.
Wang Lei, partner of Alibaba Group and president of Alibaba Local Life Service Company, said after the financial report was released, “The more extraordinary times such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the more hungry the reputation, the more we must make every effort to serve the lives of citizens and get through difficult times together with businesses.”