On December 11, in Xihongmen, Daxing, the deliveryman at the Xiaoxiang Supermarket site of the fresh food e-commerce was delivering. （ Photographed by Wu Yibin ）
The first heavy snow in the winter of 2023 hit the capital. It was learned from the fresh food e-commerce and takeaway platforms that since last weekend, various platforms have quickly launched the special weather supply guarantee measures to ensure that residents can eat fresh food and hot meals in snowy days.
In the morning of December 11, orders poured into the system, and the front bin sorters and riders were busy at their respective posts, sorting, packaging, and delivery. Although it is not easy to walk on the newly snowed road, the Meituan rider Li Yan delivered the fresh package to the residents' homes on time. "We have done safety training before, and we have memorized all the precautions. It snowed heavily today, and the platform also extended the delivery time. We also tried not to delay, so that residents can get fresh vegetables in time." He said.
"We were all in the warehouse the night before and began to receive orders and deliver goods the next day after work." The manager of Wangjing Store of Meituan Xiaoxiang Supermarket said that the store increased its overall stock, focusing on vegetable, meat, poultry and eggs and other table items, so as to avoid shortage due to the weather. In addition, the logistics vehicles were overhauled and checked in advance to avoid delivery delay caused by failure during transportation.
Dingdong shopping stations have also increased the allocation of people's livelihood goods, and the overall stock volume in the past two days has increased by 20% compared with the usual, and the algorithm will also be adjusted accordingly according to the changes in orders. "Most of them are meat, poultry, eggs and vegetables. The demand has increased by more than 30%. Orders for all kinds of beef and mutton, ribs and more than 30 kinds of frosted vegetables are very popular, and the bottom of sheep scorpion hotpot, pork belly and chicken hotpot, pickled cabbage and white meat hotpot are also popular," said the relevant person in charge of the platform.
The road is slippery in snowy days, and the difficulty of delivery has increased. Chen Hao, the head of Dingdong Shopping Dongzhimen Station, calculated that according to the road conditions of the day, the average delivery time of each order would take 5 to 10 minutes more than usual. "Riders' safety and delivery efficiency should be guaranteed. Today our transportation capacity is 30% higher than usual. The overtime order data will be eliminated later, which will not affect riders' income." (Yang Tianyue)
