“new consumption daily” on January 14, the main contents of today’s new consumption evening news are: Tianjin plate women’s workshop was fined for cosmetics; In 2021, the scale of China’s cross-border e-commerce reached 1.98 trillion yuan; Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Supervision issued the compliance guidelines for blind box business activities in Shanghai.
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Sam’s Club app defaults to five-star praise and is fined
On the morning of January 14, “Sam’s Club app was punished for default five-star praise” rushed to No. 2 on the microblog hot search list, causing hot discussion among netizens.
It is reported that Guangdong market supervision and Administration recently released 12 guiding cases of anti unfair competition law enforcement, including the case of false user evaluation of Wal Mart (China) Investment Co., Ltd. Wal Mart (China) Investment Co., Ltd. was fined 300000 yuan by Futian Supervision Bureau of Shenzhen market supervision bureau because it used Sam’s Club app to default to five-star praise.
Tianjin plate women’s workshop was fined for cosmetic problems
Recently, Tianjin pannanfang Culture Communication Co., Ltd. was fined 20000 by Tianjin Heping District market supervision and Administration Bureau for failing to establish and implement the purchase inspection record system and product sales record system in accordance with the regulations on cosmetics supervision and administration.
Henan Consumer Association filed a lawsuit against “Simba fake bird’s nest”
On January 14, Henan Consumer Association held a press briefing on the litigation situation of “Simba live instant bird’s nest consumption civil public interest litigation case”, and more than 79.71 million yuan of compensation has been refunded.
The case is the first consumer civil public interest litigation case organized by the consumer association in Henan Province. It is also a typical case of China’s standardizing live broadcasting with goods, governing the new format of e-commerce live broadcasting, and trying to solve the legal problems of “online Red live broadcasting with goods sales model”.
supreme law: severely punish the mandatory “one out of two”
On January 14, the Supreme People’s court held a press conference today to issue the guiding opinions on giving full play to the role of judicial functions to help the development of small, medium and micro enterprises.
The opinions put forward that we should strengthen the trial of anti-monopoly and anti unfair competition cases, and severely punish monopoly and unfair competition acts such as compulsory “one out of two”, low-price dumping, compulsory tying, shielding and blockade, swiping orders and speculating letters according to law; It is legally recognized that operators abuse data, algorithms, technology, capital advantages and platform rules to eliminate and restrict competitive behaviors, prevent disorderly capital expansion and protect the survival and development space of small, medium-sized and micro enterprises.
Shanghai Supervision Bureau issued the compliance guidelines for blind box business activities in Shanghai
The guidelines require that special foods, drugs, medical devices, toxic and harmful substances, flammable and explosive substances, living animals, etc. shall not be sold in the form of blind boxes. The actual value of the goods in the blind box shall be basically equivalent to its selling price. The selling price of a single blind box generally does not exceed 200 yuan.
The blind box operator shall publicize the commodity type, box drawing rules, commodity delivery quantity, hidden money extraction probability and other information, fully inform consumers, and keep complete probability setting, extraction results and distribution records for future reference. Encourage the establishment of a minimum guarantee mechanism.
In addition, the guidelines also require blind box operators not to sell blind boxes to minors under the age of 8. When selling blind box goods to minors over the age of 8, the consent of the guardian shall be confirmed through different ways such as Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) .
Cha Cha food responded to “whether the price of nuts increases”
Chacha Food Company Limited(002557) said that the company announced the price increase of some products on October 22, 2021. On the day of release, the ex factory prices of dealers have been fully adjusted. At present, the prices of terminals and stores have been basically adjusted, and the progress is relatively smooth.
Although some raw materials of nuts and sea freight have increased at present, the company will strive to overcome these factors, focus on expanding the scale of daily nuts in the next 2-3 years, and further consider whether to increase the price after the improvement of brand power and channel power.
UNIQLO’s revenue and profit in Greater China decreased
Recently, UNIQLO parent fast retailing group released the first quarter performance report of fiscal year 2022.
During the period, the regional revenue of UNIQLO Japan, the main brand, decreased by 10.8% year-on-year to RMB 12.6 billion, and the revenue of overseas regions increased by 15.0% year-on-year to RMB 16.7 billion. Fast retailing group reported that the revenue and operating profit of UNIQLO and Gu businesses in Japan and greater China decreased.
RT mart’s first experience store opened in Wuxi
On January 14, RT Mart announced that the national first store of version 2.0 reconstruction store was officially opened, with a single floor area of 14000 square meters, which will be comprehensively upgraded around the needs of customers to the store and home. After more than half a month of trial operation, the overall performance and visitors increased by 20%. The growth of leisure snacks, toys, imported red wine and beef was more prominent, with snacks reaching 123% and beef about 80%.
Lin Xiaohai, CEO of RT mart, said that RT mart’s 500 stores nationwide are core assets, and each store in the future will be an offline experience center + online performance center.
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China Tourism Group Duty Free Corporation Limited(601888) advance increase of net profit attributable to parent company in 2021 exceeds 50%
On January 14, China Tourism Group Duty Free Corporation Limited(601888) announced that the net profit attributable to the parent company in 2021 is expected to be about 9.4 billion yuan to 10.1 billion yuan, an increase of about 3.3 billion yuan to 4 billion yuan over the same period of last year, a year-on-year increase of about 54% to 66%; An increase of about 3.3 billion yuan to 4 billion yuan over the same period last year, a year-on-year increase of about 54% to 66%.
flipdish, an Irish takeout platform, received $96 million in financing
Founded in 2015, flipdish positions itself as a substitute for online fast food distribution aggregators such as just east, deliveroo and Uber eats by helping restaurant owners provide online ordering capabilities within the company. The company charges 7% per order, while some competitors charge up to 30%.
It is reported that this round of financing is led by Tencent investment, with a total amount of US $96 million, of which Tencent paid about US $80 million to acquire less than 8% of the company’s shares.
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in 2021, the scale of China’s cross-border e-commerce reached 1.98 trillion yuan
According to the statistics of China Customs, in 2021, the import and export of China’s comprehensive bonded zone, pilot free trade zone and Hainan free trade port increased by 24.3%, 26.4% and 57.7% respectively, showing a vigorous development trend.
In terms of emerging trade formats, China’s cross-border e-commerce and market procurement scale expanded rapidly. In 2021, China’s cross-border e-commerce import and export scale reached 1.98 trillion yuan, an increase of 15%; Market procurement and export increased by 32.1%.
