In recent days, while I was walking on the streets, recently I saw a lot of workers of Meituan or Eleme, they were adverting for their new online market service, which is pretty similar to the delivery service. People can use the app to purchase the fresh food or fruit through the apps. Before Meituan, there already are Dingdong and Hema, which are supplying the same service, now there are more. And it is at the same time, I saw a lot people in the online forum Zhihu, which is Chinese edition of Quora. Also, many people notice such phenomenon. But I think it is different from the delivery war happened in the past years, which happened in the year 2016. It is same that, those big companies had flowed to the supermarket industry, what make it different is that, now we notice it and worry about it.
Though it is true that, we can receive a lot bonus and benefits from purchasing the food or fruit while these big companies are competing for the supermarket delivery service, we also always know is that, there will be many supermarkets or wet markets around our living areas will disappear recently. Eventually, as more and more people begin using the apps to have daily supplies, we would rely on the apps more, and then the industry then, like food delivery industry, becomes oligopoly.
Some people in the forum mock that, now all Chinese’s lives cannot be separated from the two “Ma”, which represents Huateng Ma and Yun Ma. It is true that all these businesses are ran in a formal way, and it is also true that, such services make the city more efficient. However, it makes us feel so powerless that, we actually cannot make the selection of the changes. We cannot decide it even though we ourselves are the residents of the cities. City formalities are decided by the big companies, but not us. But what they have done is so reasonable and formal.
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