In recent years, cherries have become the "star" fruit on the residents' tables every winter. When the reporter recently visited the fruit market in Beijing, he found that with the large number of imported cherries on the market, the price has dropped significantly.
At the Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market in Beijing, boxes of cherries are being loaded. The staff told reporters that after entering 2024, their company will sell about 10 tons of cherries per day.
Xue Furong, manager of an international trade company in Beijing: In October, when the first ticket for air freight came, it was sold for more than 200 yuan a catty. The cherries by sea are coming, and the price is relatively low, and now the most expensive is the wholesale, more than 50 yuan a catty.
Statistics from Beijing's Xinfadi wholesale market show that the price of cherries has been steadily and rapidly declining as seaborne cherries have arrived, and on December 31, 2023, the average selling price of cherries imported from Chile was 60 yuan per catty. Compared with the average price of 120 yuan per catty on November 10, 2023, the price has dropped by half, and the sales volume has also increased significantly.
Fruit e-commerce Yin Guodong: Now the sales volume is definitely a little better than before. In November, there are relatively few, and there are only a few dozen catties per day. Now the platform takes more than 100 orders a day, about 1,000 catties.
In the fresh supermarket, the staff told reporters that with the decline in retail prices, consumers are no longer limited to buying a box of half-catty trials, and a 5-catty box of family models is more popular.
Industry insiders expect that as the Spring Festival approaches, cherries will enter the peak of sales in late January.
Sun Chao, fruit supervisor of a fresh supermarket in Beijing: In the next week, there will be a 60% to 70% increase in sales.
Source: CCTV Finance