Foreign media said no one supermarket, no bookstore, no noodle shop ... ... China's retail industry is ushering in the wave of unmanned.In the past year, unattended technology in many areas to carry out the application for the retail business model Innovation brings new space.
January 17, Shanxi Province, the first unmanned convenience store to open trial operation
According to Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao" website February 21 reported that last month in Guangzhou officially open 'Where to future bookstores' unattended bookstore, customers open the phone to scan the two-dimensional code outside the bookstore, the bookstore door can be automatically unlocked, No shopping guide and cashier, pick good books and handicrafts came to the front of the shop settlement area, open the WeChat sweep code, the system will automatically induction identification, confirmed and settlement costs, the bookstore door will once again open for you. Fang Hao, head of Lianchuang International Community Operations, said that the bookstore consumer group is mainly aimed at young entrepreneurs who operate in unattended mode as an innovative attempt. Since opening more than a month ago, without deliberate promotion, Bookstore received quite good response.
Reported that, in addition to Guangzhou, many cities in China have emerged unattended bookstore or consumer self-service bookstores, online businesses are also actively layout of this new field last month in Beijing hosted the 2018 Lynx Books Summit, Lynx Zhang Wei, head of the book, said Lynx will start a new retail collaboration with traditional bookstores this year to create a smart bookstore that will allow online and offline scenarios to build an indefensible bookshop and a 24-hour unattended bookstore.
Reported that the unattended business model will be more and more bookstores adopted and then become a new venture outlet is to take the test of the market, and no convenience store, unmanned supermarket in the earlier red, a number of companies actively involved This area.
According to the "2017 China unmanned retail store research report" released by AiMed Consulting, the transaction volume of unmanned retail stores in China is estimated to reach 38.94 billion yuan in 2017 and the growth rate in 2020 is expected to reach 281%. By 2022, the market turnover will exceed 1.8 trillion yuan.
Is a tuyere or gust? EasyGo future convenience store co-founder Wang Mu said that an unmanned convenience store investment of 100000 yuan, with their current business situation, a single shop daily turnover of about 2,000 yuan, namely A month with 60,000 yuan of income, gross margins at about 35%, divided into other factors, it is estimated that a single shop can return within eight months to one year.
Reported that unmanned bookstore return time is considered roughly the same, due to rising labor costs in China, low cost is undoubtedly the biggest advantage of unmanned mode, but this model is still in its infancy, facing many challenges. GF Securities Published research reported that unmanned convenience stores to save rent and labor costs, but also increased the technical input, the current single-store sales in the area created daily sales have not yet demonstrated the advantages of investment per square meter about In addition, the development of unmanned mode also depends on the improvement of national quality, at present, China's unmanned convenience stores are also faced with the selection of consumers, the container is placed The practical problems of disarray will all form a huge challenge for unmanned development in China.
Another analysis that unmanned retail stores are usually smaller, limited types of products, consumers are likely to be in a store because they want to buy the missing goods and give up.In addition, e-commerce, take-out platform to flourish in the moment, Home delivery is more and more people's choice, how many people are willing to go downstairs to convenience store shopping is also a question mark.
Xuhui District, Shanghai, a 'nobody noodle shop' opened in October last year, attracting a lot of attention, but a few days later was forced to shut down.Xuhui District Market Authority official said, 'no noodle shop' business overrun, Originally only engaged in pre-packaged food sales, but in fact involves on-site restaurant production links, not within the scope of the permit operation.At the same time, Southwest's first unmanned supermarket 'GOGO unmanned supermarket' in the business for more than four months Suspension of business, belong to a company's unmanned shelves project 'GOGO small super' also announced the closure of business, but the relevant person in charge stressed that this does not mean that there is no unattended retail model, they still have confidence in the project.
Reported that unattended retail will become a new industry outlet, the need for market and time test, but undoubtedly has the imagination. Ai media consulting that the future with artificial intelligence recognition technology and extraction features further development of unmanned retail store is expected Become the next retail giant.It is foreseeable that as technology matures, the retail store to become intelligent trend will be, this process will also run through innovation and reengineering.