Ali's local life was exposed to open a round of major layoffs, and Hungry responded: The news is untrue

On January 4, according to Interface News, Ali Local Life is about to start a round of sharp layoffs, involving almost all business lines of Ele.me, including regional branch personnel, excluding third-party riders. The above report pointed out that a person close to Ele.me revealed to the interface news reporter that the layoffs were due to the gradual widening of the gap between Ele.me and the US group in the field of local life.

In response to the above rumors, according to the Sina Finance 5D survey quoted Ele.me as saying: "The news is not true, we have no so-called layoff plan, but also have a clear plan for the next step of development."

According to public information, as early as October 12, 2018, Alibaba Group announced the formal establishment of a local life service company, and Ele.me and Word-of-Mouth Victory will merge to form a leading local life service platform in China.

In July 2021, Alibaba announced a new round of organizational upgrades, with three major businesses based on location services, namely AutoNavi, Local Life and Fliggy, forming the Life Services Segment, which is managed by Yu Yongfu on behalf of the Group and reports to Daniel Zhang, Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Group. (Article | Author of "Finance and Economics" Weekly, Tang Guo)