Spend a lot of money to engage in self-control processing capabilities and purchase and sale supply chain capabilities. Its opportunity lies in that if self-operated preservation depends on suppliers' supply, and there is no automatic processing capacity, the supply will be very unstable and "diseconomies of scale" will easily occur. The larger the purchase volume, the higher the cost.
Ding-dong's operation mode of buying vegetables is more "focused" than daily fresh food, focusing on consumers' tables, and only high-frequency fresh food consumption also brings higher repurchase and traffic performance for Ding-dong's shopping, but the problem is that the gross profit of fresh food is too low, which leads to the lack of gross profit of Ding-dong's shopping focused on consumers' tables.
Ding-dong shopping key events:
Ding Dong announced the completion of $330 million D+ financing: On May/May/2, 2002, Ding Dong announced the completion of $330 million D+ financing, which was led by Softbank Vision Fund.
A month ago, Ding-Dong just completed the $700 million D round of financing, and the accumulated financing amount of Ding-Dong D round of shopping reached $65.438 +0.03 billion. At present, Ding Dong's grocery shopping service has covered 29 cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Hangzhou, with nearly 1 1,000 pre-warehouses.