As soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, mooncakes become a "sweet burden". What to do with the leftover mooncakes? The reporter visited several supermarkets and bakeries and learned that mooncakes are still on sale, and some are sold at a discount.
Moon cake prices have dropped slightly
html On September 23, reporters visited many supermarkets in Changsha and found that mooncakes had been withdrawn from the counters in batches. In a Leerle supermarket, there are still a small number of mooncakes on sale, and the prices have dropped. Some citizens will take advantage of the promotion to "stock up" mooncakes."Although I bought mooncakes before the Mid-Autumn Festival, they were expensive at that time, so I didn't buy many. Now that they are cheaper, I will buy some for breakfast or snacks." Mr. Ma, who was shopping for mooncakes, said.
"Mooncakes have just left the factory and have a shelf life of several months, so many consumers will buy some after the Mid-Autumn Festival and eat them slowly." A clerk said, and the reporter noticed that many supermarkets currently have leftovers. Most of the mooncakes on sale are in bulk, and most of the boxed mooncakes only have a few boxes left.
Reporters checked major e-commerce platforms and found that many mooncakes have also reduced their prices. Take the "Li Ziqi" mooncake gift box as an example. This mooncake could be sold for 428 yuan before the festival. Now it has been removed from the flagship store, and other stores sell it at prices of 198 yuan, 138 yuan, or even 128 yuan.
What is different from major supermarkets and e-commerce platforms is that many bakeries and dessert shops such as Rosenina, Qianji , etc. are still selling mooncakes without reducing their prices. The clerk told reporters that there are still some Customers will come to buy mooncakes, and they will be removed from the shelves in a few days according to notification from the headquarters.
Where do the unsold mooncakes go?
Many netizens have this question every year: Where do the mooncakes go after the Mid-Autumn Festival?
reporter learned from consultation that there are two ways to deal with mooncakes that cannot be sold in supermarkets. One is that the supermarkets handle it themselves and sell them at a very low price, or return them to upstream manufacturers.
"Actually, if there are no major decision-making mistakes in normal planning, there will not be many mooncakes left in supermarkets. They will usually be processed at a low price or given to employees for internal digestion." A supermarket staff told reporters.
So, will the mooncakes returned to the factory flow into the market again? Some media have reported that mooncakes from the previous year "return" to be sold the next year; there are also vendors who buy mooncakes at low prices, process them into pastries and sell them to the market.
It is understood that the State Food and Drug Administration organizes and implements special law enforcement inspections on mooncake production and sales every year. It verifies producer licenses, mooncake quality inspection batch reports, and surprise inspections and spot checks to prevent and crack down on the use of old raw materials or recycled mooncakes. The illegal act of processing moon cakes.
The remaining mooncake manufacturers will destroy them or sell them to related companies at low prices to make animal feed, the most common one is pig feed. At present, most companies produce according to orders. The market demand predicted through research and actual conditions will not be too different. In fact, there are not many mooncakes that need to be destroyed.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Shen Xiaoyi
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