Do you know? Because of the rise of the Internet, people's lives have now undergone earth-shaking changes. From going shopping in physical stores, watching dramas on TV, eating at home or at restaurants, but now you only need to use your mobile phone to surf the Internet, whether it is shopping, watching a drama or eating, you can easily do it. It can be said that the current Internet has changed people's lives.
Among the many changes, the rise of Internet takeaway is a presence that cannot be ignored. Not only is the scale huge, according to the "China Internet Development Statistical Report" released by CNNIC, the scale of china's takeaway users has reached 469 million people. And the market size is growing rapidly, according to the data of Ai Media Consulting, the market size of takeaway has increased from 21.6 billion yuan in 2011 to 664.6 billion yuan in 2020, with an annual compound growth rate of more than 37%.
The rapid development of the takeaway industry and the huge market size have attracted many capitals and created many takeaway platforms, such as Meituan, Hungry, Heartbeat Takeaway, Home Delivery and so on. Although there are many takeaway platforms today, the only two giants that can occupy the largest market share are Meituan and Ele.me. According to BT Finance V data, Meituan and Ele.me together occupy more than 90% of the market share.
The US group occupies the majority
However, although meituan and hungry occupy a large part of the market, compared with hungry, meituan has a higher amount of users and transactions. According to the financial report released by Meituan for the third quarter of 2021, the amount of catering transactions was 197.01 billion yuan, an increase of 29.5% year-on-year, in addition to the number of users reached 667 million. According to Alibaba's third-quarter financial report, Alibaba's local life service operating income was 9.513 billion yuan. The source of income for local life services is mainly supported by Hungry.
Although meituan now occupies the first position, and in life we can see many people wearing meituan yellow clothes delivering food on the road. However, due to the excessive consumption of meituan for merchants, the requirements for riders are a little strict, and there are some problems in the supervision of takeaway food safety, it often causes discussions from all walks of life in the society.
At the same time, it also makes many people on the Internet have different views on the impression of the US group. Some netizens who eat melons have doubts about this, since the US group has caused so much discussion in society. So if after the closure of the US group, for today's society, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, or the disadvantages outweigh the benefits?
Profits after the collapse of the US group
For this problem, we can look at this problem from two aspects, first of all, what benefits may be after the closure of the US group. The first is to promote offline consumption. Because most of the workers are now accustomed to eating takeaway, when a large takeaway platform like Meituan goes out of business, some people will choose not to eat takeaway for various reasons, and will find restaurants near the company or home to eat, which is conducive to promoting physical store consumption to a certain extent.
The second is to reduce safety accidents for riders. We all know that because the takeaway platform has strict time regulations for delivery time, if it exceeds the time, it will deduct money. Therefore, some riders will disregard traffic safety in order to deliver food in time, resulting in things such as speeding or running red lights, which has led to a lot of news about rider safety accidents in today's society. When the US group closes down, some riders will also choose to change careers, and such problems can also be appropriately reduced.
The third is to reshuffle the takeaway industry. If meituan suddenly closes, there will be huge changes for the entire industry. In order to seize more markets, merchants and users, many takeaway platforms may use various preferential means to attract the attention of merchants and users. Therefore, for some people, whether it is ordering takeaway or doing takeaway business, there may be more favorable conditions and benefits than before.
The disadvantages after the collapse of the US group
However, everything has two sides, and there will be disadvantages to the advantages. The drawbacks that may occur after the collapse of the US group are mainly reflected in three aspects. The first is that there will be a large number of people who are unemployed. According to data released by Meituan, in addition to nearly 7 million riders, there are now tens of thousands of employees working in Meituan. If the US group suddenly goes out of business, these people may lose their jobs, which will have a considerable impact on society and the country.
The second is the impact on the catering industry. Although as mentioned above, the collapse of the US group can promote offline physical consumption to a certain extent, but because the impact of the "black swan" event in some areas has not ended, some merchants can only rely on takeaway support because there is no customer source offline. If the US group suddenly goes out of business, these merchants will have no source of income, which is undoubtedly a heavy blow for them.
Finally, it has a great impact on the current workers. Nowadays, due to the rapid pace of society and the excessive pressure in the workplace, some workers feel very tired, resulting in their reluctance to cook their own meals and only want to order takeaways. If the US group suddenly goes out of business, it will have a big impact on the work and life of this part of the workers.
In general, the advantages and disadvantages of the US group are similar, but from a personal point of view, it is definitely more harmful than beneficial. After all, if the US group goes out of business, not only will the number of unemployed people be too large, but also the stores that survive by delivering food will also face the risk of closure, especially in the past two years, the situation in the catering industry is not particularly good.
Having said that, now because many people have different views on Meituan, in order to save people's evaluations, Meituan should actively deal with various problems that arise, as well as the choice of takeaway businesses to be carefully handled to avoid food safety accidents. Finally, if you have any views on the US group, you may wish to talk about it in the comment area.