Cooking, Food & Wine

in the face of provinces and cities more vegetables unsalable condition, United States, Wal-Mart, Carrefour, huatang, 12 chain supermarket jointly published yesterday a proposal, called for national supermarkets expanding "difficulty in selling" purchase of vegetables, the establishment of "difficulty in selling" fruit and vegetable sales counter for cheap sales.

12 supermarket commitments, increasing the "direct farm" direct mining efforts, expanding "difficulty in selling" purchase of vegetables, purchase at reasonable prices, reduce intermediate links, reduce the cost of circulation, promoting cheap sales. Set up in the main store "difficulty in selling" fruit and vegetable sales counters, priority sales "difficulties in selling" fruits and vegetables. To avoid the recurrence of fruits and vegetables, price fluctuations, 12 supermarket recommendations, establish long-term, stable procurement of relations of cooperation and resolution of vegetable "difficulty in selling" of long-acting mechanism, establishment of fruits and vegetables, "difficulty in selling" emergency mechanism for joint action, the initiative to understand the variety and number of fruit and vegetables listed in main production areas of change.

Fu Yu said American spokesman, in Hebei, Shandong, Henan, to increase the intensity of purchasing leaf vegetables, from Monday to Thursday increased 90 tons, Friday to Sunday to increase than usual 150 tons, application of the flat in flat out, measures such as entry of zero cost, zero accounts, a move that will last for at least 15 days. Carrefour has spread from Shandong province, Hubei unsold vegetables which are mainly purchasing the Chinese cabbage, cabbage 60 tons, and transported to Beijing and Shanghai, Carrefour supermarkets around, the stores at the same time opened up "difficulty in selling" vegetable area. Carrefour said that attaches great importance to food safety in the procurement process, ensure the provision of safe food to consumers.

Reporter visits

an hour selling day

less than 10 points yesterday morning, jade Dragonfly bridge of hypermarket of tomatoes has six or seven times on the goods. The tomatoes come from Shandong Zibo deli vegetables cooperatives, the cooperative long-term resident of us work of Mr Lo told reporters that door less than an hour has sold more than 900 kg tomatoes, usually a day selling six hundred or seven hundred kilograms. Reporters at the scene to see, of $ 0.68 kg Chinese cabbage, cabbage, 0.48 a Jin $ 0.58 per pound of white radish, $ 1.99 a pound of tomatoes are the most popular. "Market tomatoes had nearly three dollars a kilo. "Who lives in Puhuangyu aunt Fung told reporters," difficulty in selling "section of these different kinds of vegetables were cheaper than the supermarket many," where did you buy is buy, this could also help the country's favor. "

zero-profit sales in supermarkets

Fu Yu Mei group spokesman told reporters that the establishment of" difficulty in selling "vegetable counter pricing is transparent, is the purchase price plus shipping, artificial and loss, not a penny profit. "To transport traffic is relatively developed Shandong to Beijing as an example, pound stores price at the moment is four Mao eight in Chinese cabbage, which freight is about a five to two, around artificial is a hair loss is about a hair, real food prices which is about eight cents. "This reporter learned that, high logistics costs driven up food prices in the city.

introduction to the industry, because of the high prices of agricultural products last year, grow vegetables the area expanded rapidly, especially before and after the Spring Festival this year, because of cold weather in the South of Hainan, vegetables shipped to the North greatly reduced peak prices, has greatly stimulated enthusiasm for planting of vegetable farmers in the North such as Shandong, Hebei, planting area is considerably more than last year. When it is listed when the dish in the North of the South, had poor sales, price cut and a series of conditions appear. (By reporter Xiao Dan)