Hong Kong people have been consumed north after the epidemic, which has led to the bleak business of the local retail food industry in the past year. It has a 39 -year -old large food and frozen food chain store "Darong Food Market". Friday (March 15)Announce the end of the board.Some people in the food industry estimate that there will be 3,000 restaurants in Hong Kong in the future.
After the end of the Hong Kong crown disease, it has been settled in the north since the middle of last year, and it has not yet receded.Last Saturday (March 9), there were 370,000 people who outbound Hong Kong, of which only 26,000 were departed from the airport.104,000 people come from the mainland.
The Hong Kong Ming Pao pointed out on Friday that a large number of people in Hong Kong flowed out, which made the catering retail industry bitter. Some people in the industry estimated privately that there will be 3,000 restaurants in the future.Huang Jiahe, the president of the Hong Kong Catering Association, said that he was not so pessimistic, but he admitted that the business business of the catering industry after the Lunar New Year was very bad, and it was really likely that there would be a wave of graduation, but he refused to evaluate the number.
Huang Jiahe said that the biggest problem that the Hong Kong food industry is now facing is that every weekend has 300,000 and 400,000 people going north to consume, and the number of people in the north may be as high as 6 million. At the same timeThe number of foreign passengers is far less than those in the north and Hong Kong, and the per capita consumption of these visitors to Hong Kong is not as good as before the epidemic.All kinds of situations have a great impact on the food industry.
The Hong Kong Oriental Daily also reported on the front version on Friday. Recently, the old districts where West Ring, Yuen Long, Kowloon City and other restaurants are concentrated in small shops.The old shop moved away from the old shop.The food industry pointed out that the catering industry has declined significantly compared with the same period last year, and the consumption boom in the north of Hong Kong people has not decreased, and small restaurants must be the first.
The parent company of the "Dachang Food Market" Dachangxing Group said that it decided to close 28 food retail stores, but emphasized that it would continue to provide procurement, distribution and food processing.The company's Personnel Department has issued a notice to employees on Friday to end the employment contract on April 14. It is estimated that nearly a hundred employees will be affected.
Wu Junfei, a researcher at the Hong Kong China Economic and Cultural Development Promotion Association, said in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that Dachang Foods had 90 branches in Hong Kong, which was the first frozen food store at the time, but then began to lose weight and gradually reduced the number of branches.The official completion today reflects the difficulties of the food retail industry in Hong Kong.
Wu Junfei pointed out that there are three main reasons for the pressure of Hong Kong's food retail industry.The first is that the operating costs are high; Hong Kong's stores have high rent, high employment salaries, and not easy to operate in retail.The second is that e -commerce impacts traditional physical stores; the shopping habits of young people have changed, and the turnover of physical stores has declined.Third, Hong Kong people's north consumption has a negative impact on the local retail industry; Hong Kong has been integrated into the Greater Bay Area, and the transportation of Lugang is more convenient.
He believes that the difficulty of Hong Kong's low value retail industry will continue for a long time.The market will eliminate a number of businesses with low profit margins, and those retail industries that provide high value -added will eventually win.Enterprises need to rely on themselves to adjust their business according to the market.
