Original title: Buy Lantern reappears in long queues, Jinfang Lantern cancels online purchase
The Lantern Festival is approaching, and in front of the stores selling lanterns, there is a scene of citizens queuing up to buy lanterns.
On the morning of February 24, the reporter saw in front of the Jinfang snack Ciqikou store that people waiting to buy lanterns lined up in two "long queues", "at the peak of the peak, you have to queue for three or four hours to buy the lanterns." Liu Chunping, manager of Jinfang Snacks, introduced that because there are too many citizens queuing on the spot, for the sake of fairness, online lantern sales have been stopped in recent days.
In addition, long-established Lantern Festivals such as Beijing Daoxiang Village and Huguosi Snacks can still be purchased online.
On the morning of the 24th, the citizens who came to Jinfang Snack Ciqikou Shop to buy the Lantern had two long queues. Photo by reporter Li Muyi
There is a queue of customers when the door opens at 6:30 a.m
At about 8 o'clock this morning, the reporter saw in the Jinfang Snack Ciqikou Store that in front of the window, the citizens lined up in two long lines, one from the window to the north to the Guangqu Road auxiliary road, and the other team snaked east for more than 200 meters.
"These two days to buy the Lantern have to be early, we opened the door at 6:30 in the morning, when there was already a queue." It's normal to queue for three or four hours during rush hour. The staff said.
"Last year's Lantern Festival was catching up with the epidemic, not advocating gathering, some stores cancelled on-site purchases, we bought online last year." Ms. Gao, a citizen, said that to buy a lantern, you have to queue up on the spot to have a feeling of festival.
Residents lined up to buy the Lantern. Photo by reporter Li Muyi
Jinfang snack manager Liu Chunping told reporters that Jinfang snack Ciqikou store has been one of the hottest sales stores for many years, last year because of the epidemic, the sales volume of on-site purchases fell sharply, and there was basically no queue to buy lanterns at the store entrance. "It feels like the queues this year are higher than in previous years, with two queues today and four lines yesterday." Liu Chunping said.
At more than 9 o'clock in the morning, there were still citizens who came to queue, and some citizens were hesitant to see the long queue. Some citizens looked for people who bought lanterns and asked, "How long did you buy this?" "More than two hours." "It's been so long, it's been noon for me." Counting the time, someone hesitated to walk to the end of the line.
Jinfang snacks sell about 20 tons of Lanterns per day during the peak period
The staff said that they began to shake the Lantern from a few years ago, everyone worked overtime, and from the eighth day of the first month of the first month, they needed to queue up to buy the Lantern. "The door opens at 6:30 a.m., and the master starts shaking the Lantern from 5 a.m. and needs to shake it uninterrupted until more than 1 o'clock at night."
The reporter saw at the scene that many people bought several bags. Liu Chunping introduced that in the past few days, three jinfang snack shops supply about 20 tons of lanterns per day, and yesterday the three stores sold a total of 21 tons of lanterns, and it is expected that today's amount is only a lot more. It is understood that due to the impact of the epidemic, last year Jinfang Lantern cooperated with the Hungry Mo platform to sell the Lantern online. During the peak period of on-site queuing this year, in order to be fair, Jinfang Lantern cancelled online purchases, and at the same time canceled the in-house purchases of employees during peak hours.
This year, Jinfang Snacks is still a Lantern with 5 kinds of fillings, including assorted, black sesame, cocoa, hawthorn and Wuren, in addition to the assorted Lantern 36 yuan / jin, the remaining 4 kinds of lantern prices are 40 yuan / jin.
The staff shakes the Lantern in the workshop behind the store. Photo by reporter Li Muyi
Some long-established Lanterns can still be purchased online
The reporter learned that many stores in Niujie Baiji, Gongdelin and Beijing DaoxiangCun also lined up to buy lanterns.
In the third store department of Daoxiangcun Dongzhimen Store, the door opened at 8 o'clock in the morning, and dozens of people were lined up at the door waiting to buy the Lantern. Affected by the epidemic, Daoxiangcun canceled the store now shake the Lantern, are factory supplies, in order to reduce the public queuing time, the staff in advance will be the Lantern divided into packs, assorted Lantern 30 yuan / jin, paper bags containing 20 Lanterns, the public can also choose to buy according to their own needs.
Beijing Daoxiangcun has launched four flavors of delicate black hemp, osmanthus hawthorn, creamy cocoa, traditional Wuren four flavors of Lantern, and 9 flavors of tangyuan, including the past two years of "net red" yellow rice tangyuan, the classic refined black hemp, rose bean paste, osmanthus hawthorn, fragrant peanuts and creamy cocoa and other flavors of glutinous rice tangyuan. In addition to queuing up to buy, citizens can also buy quick-frozen tangyuan on takeaway platforms and e-commerce platforms.
Staff pack lantern gift boxes. Photo by reporter Li Muyi
The Gokokuji Snack Shop divides the Lantern into plastic boxes in advance, and 15 capsules are packed in a box. "After the tenth day of the first lunar month, people buying Lanterns at the entrance of the store line up almost every day." Wang Xinmei, manager of the Gokokusa Temple Snack Origin Shop, introduced that the masters in the store all started to shake from the first night to ensure that the Lantern of 13 kinds of fillings was available at the door, and more than 3,000 pounds had to be shaken every day these days. "On the thirteenth and fourteenth days of the first month, you have to shake more than 6,000 pounds a day."
This year, the Huguosi Snack General Store launched the Lantern Takeaway Platform Sales, Time-of-Period Collection, And Free Delivery Fees within Three Kilometers. Citizens can purchase Lanterns on takeaway platforms. "Now the number of takeaway orders for the Lantern every day exceeds 1,000 catties." Wang Xinmei said.
Judging from the popular Lantern varieties, the public still prefers traditional flavors such as black sesame, osmanthus and assorted. In order to attract young customers, many long-established brands have also launched some new flavors of lanterns, such as the fresh durian stuffing flavor of the Huguosi Snack, which is quite popular with young people, with a daily limit of three or four hundred pounds, "almost just shaken out of the pot, it was robbed." (Chen Lin)