**On July 11, 2017, at the entrance of a cake shop on Chunxi Road, Chengdu, there were citizens queuing up to shop. The reporter found that there were suspected professional queues.

On July 11, 2017, at the entrance of a cake shop on Chunxi Road, Chengdu, there were citizens queuing up to shop. The reporter found that there were suspected professional queues.

On July 11, 2017, at the entrance of a cake shop on Chunxi Road, Chengdu, there were citizens queuing up for shopping. The reporter found that there were suspected professional queues.

There is a popular Internet saying: The longest path I have walked is your routine. Now, it may be changed to: "The longest line I have ever queued is all child care teams."

Especially in some milk tea shops, donut shops, Guokui shops and other snack shops, and even in front of hot pot shops, you can often see many people queuing at any time, and some even 40-50 people queuing. "The line is too long, and the road cannot be queued!" People can't help but roam these people queuing really queuing? Or fake queues?

Even at noon when the temperature is 39 degrees outdoors, there are always long queues in front of a snack shop called "Beef Oil Shop" located in Dakejia Lane in Chunxi Business District, Chengdu. From July 10th to July 12th, West China Metropolis Daily-Cover News reporters chose to squat on the spot, shoot videos, and conduct undercover investigations, trying to reveal the truth.

■Site squatting: On the first day, the scorching sun was squatting for 5 hours. Seven suspicious people lined up 4-8 times at the door of the store, spending 10 yuan each time to buy a 10-yuan "beef oil sauce" snack, all of which went to the same mysterious location, and then appeared in the team again. The next day, I waited on the spot for 3 hours, and at least 4 people appeared again, and the same strange queue as the day before was performed.

■Video shooting: Two days of squatting at the scene, West China Metropolis Daily-Cover News reporters used their mobile phone to record the suspected fake queue of Internet celebrity snack bars.

■ Unexpected investigation: After several contacts and twists and turns, the reporter finally found the key person responsible for contacting the "scalper party" for fake queues, and conducted undercover investigations on the grounds of part-time work. After investigation, there is a relatively mature operation process and economic chain behind the scenes of "child care" queuing. For example, a WeChat group of 200 people in an intermediary company only recruits the top 20 people who register every day. If you are queuing with a part-time helper, you will be queuing for 6 hours every day. You need to queue for 10 round trips a day, 1,500 yuan a month.

■Extended question: Taking this "beef oil sauce" as an example, you can queue up 10 times a day to get 10 cakes, and only the last cake can be eaten. So where did the other 9 cakes go?

》》Focus: Internet celebrity stores line up

10 yuan 1 beef oil sauté

Line line up for at least half an hour to buy

It is summer vacation, and Mr. Chen from Guangdong took his child and his family of three to play in Chengdu. When passing by Dakejia Lane in Chunxi Road, a snack bar called "Beef Oil Shop" was lined up in front of a snack bar called "Beef Oil Shop" to attract him. He intuitively judged that the snacks in this restaurant should be very delicious.

Walking into this small shop about 10 square meters, there are two or three employees busy in the shop. There are beef oil sauces of various flavors written on the walls, and the prices are all 10 yuan per person. If it weren't for the long line, this little shop with a somewhat outdated appearance would be inconspicuous at all.

It was noon and the outdoor temperature was close to 40 degrees. Mr. Chen asked his wife and children to wait on the bench next to him and went to queue up by himself.

At that time, the reporter was sitting next to his wife. Although there was a parasol, the lady who had been waiting for a long time seemed a little impatient. She complained to Mr. Chen several times: "What kind of team is this? I can't buy it after queuing for half an hour!" During this period, Mr. Chen wanted to leave many times, but seemed unwilling to give up and continued to line up under the sun.

Cover News reporter estimated that it was from around 12:50 to 1:30, and it was Mr. Chen's turn to buy it. "It tastes average, I don't think it's worth queuing so long to buy it."

Cover News reporter noticed that despite the scorching sun, many people are still willing to wait in line to buy it. "I don't know if it's delicious. Seeing so many people queuing up, foodies want to taste it." said a backpacker with soaked backrest.

"There are still fewer people now, and there are more people on weekends or holidays." A man wearing white short-sleeved shirt shouted hard."Cook now, come on, there are fewer people in line now..." When you meet someone who comes to queue, the leader will quickly step forward, collect the money, and then give the customer a bag and let them wait in line.

July 10-11, from 12 noon to 5 pm, the Cover News reporter was on site for two days. The number of people queuing is at least 12, with the most people above 20, and most of them are tourists with foreign accents.

On July 11, 2017, at the entrance of a cake shop on Chunxi Road, Chengdu, there were citizens queuing up to shop. The reporter found that there were suspected professional queues.

There are many doubts

Is it true or false?

In the tens of meters long, there were also some tourists who gave up queuing and left halfway. However, during the four or five hours of waiting, West China Metropolis Daily-Cover News reporters discovered a strange phenomenon: at least 7 people were queuing up from 1 o'clock until the reporter left. These included three women walking with each other, one man and one woman in their company, and two separate men. Unlike other tourists, these seven people looked calm and slow. Several pairs of them were either playing with their phones or whispering to each other, talking and laughing. The reporter from Cover News made a rough estimate. Throughout the afternoon, these seven people repeatedly shot the team at least four or five times, and even seven or eight times.

Their behavior and trajectory are also surprisingly consistent: line up and buy only one. After buying it, I didn't eat it directly, but slowly left in the direction of a nearby large supermarket. About 10 minutes later, these people returned to the queue. Then, the beef oil in their hands disappeared. Cover News reporter noticed that these seven people would not appear in the team at the same time, and generally queued up three to four at a time, repeating the cycle.

Two days of squatting to investigate

The behavior of these people is full of doubts. If you buy beef oil sauce, why don’t you buy enough at one time, but instead queue up four or five times, and only buy one at a time? How many people who are together will queue up again and again?

They left with beef stew and returned in just 10 minutes. Did the thing be eaten or where did it go? With these suspicious points, reporters continued to squat at the door of the store to observe, and reporters from the other group followed the footsteps of these people to see where they were going.

On July 11, 2017, at the entrance of a cake shop on Chunxi Road, Chengdu, there were citizens queuing up to shop. The reporter found that there were suspected professional queues.

Squatting 1

Time: July 10th from 12 noon to 5:20 pm

Strange queuers, after buying the cake, they all went to the same place

00 The reporter noticed four people first. A man wearing grey short-sleeved, jeans, khaki sandals (code: A). He appeared in the queue at 13:59, holding a paper bag in his right hand. In front of him, three young women (code name: trio) appeared together, among which the tall woman was wearing a flower skirt, the short-haired woman was wearing denim shorts and white short-sleeved women, and the other middle-aged woman was very conspicuous in green short-sleeved women.

About 20 minutes later, the trio left with a beef oil slab, passed by the entrance of a large nearby shopping mall, then walked through the alley next to it, walked onto the pedestrian street, passed the parking lot exit of the shopping mall, and then entered the first city, then walked out from the northeast gate of the first city, passed through a passage about 1 meter wide next to the entrance of the parking lot of Kejia Building at No. 48 Zhengkejia Lane, and then entered a small door. In less than 10 minutes, the three of them came out of the door empty-handed.

Just as the trio walked to the northeast gate of the first city, the man A came back with a beef sauté. They met head-on without saying hello. Then Man A also entered the small door. Soon, the trio returned to queue up as usual. Man A came out of the small door empty-handed and returned to queue up again. It took more than 10 minutes later.

While following these four people, the reporter who was squatting at the door of the store discovered a new goal: a pair of men and women in a group are very suspicious.The man was wearing a black short-sleeved dress with a white upper body and a black dress with a lower body (code name duo), and there was also a man wearing a white short-sleeved shirt (code name C).

Sure enough, one person in the duo was carrying a beef steak, and the direction he left was the same. Soon, the reporter who was squatting near the small gate also witnessed the two entering the small gate one after another. A few minutes later, he left empty-handed.

Cover News reporters followed Man C and found that the man was more casual and didn't look as cautious as others. The route he took was to pass directly from the entrance of the shopping mall, then walked onto the pedestrian street, and walked along the road between the First City and the Kejia Building, entering the alley and the small door.

From 12 noon to 5:20 pm, for several hours, the cover news reporter found that these seven people had participated in the least three queues, at most, the Gray Man A and the trio, who had at least four or five times. During the period, while queuing with the trio and white short-sleeved line, the Cover News reporter found that Man A sat in the seat on the first floor of the mall for about 40 minutes, played with his cell phone for a while, and dozed off for a while. Then he appeared in the queue again.

Squatting at 2

The day before, the 4 people appeared again.

Time: 1 noon on July 11th - 4 pm

7-11th at 1 pm, the cover news reporter went to the scene to investigate again. Just like the day before, there was still a long queue here. The clerk wearing white short-sleeved shirts and responsible for collecting money to command the queue still shouted the same words: "Come on, come on, there are few people in line..."

Soon, the reporter discovered that several people who appeared the day before appeared again. The three-person group, the floral skirt was replaced with a yellow striped skirt, the short-haired woman in denim shorts, the white short-sleeved woman in blue short-sleeved woman, while the green short-sleeved middle-aged woman in white short-sleeved woman. A man's gray short sleeves turned into a dark shirt. Starting from 2 o'clock, the four people walked back and forth three or four times along the route of the previous day.

The difference from the previous day is that the cover news reporter noticed that several new faces appeared. At 13:54, one of his left arm carried a black bag and a beef slut in his right hand entered the small door. At 13:57, a woman in a black top and a flowery skirt followed her in with beef sauté. Then the two walked out one after another, and a few minutes later, they stood in line at the store door.

sorted out two days of investigation and found that nearly 10 "customers" in this store were suspected of being "childcare".

On July 11, 2017, at the entrance of a cake shop on Chunxi Road, Chengdu, there were citizens queuing up to shop. The reporter found that there were suspected professional queues.

》》》Undercovering of

Chat record:

Fake queues 10 times a day, monthly salary of 1,500 yuan

These children are identities, and where do they come from? In order to understand these confusions, the reporter immediately contacted the clerk who was responsible for collecting money and commanding the queue on the grounds of part-time work. At the scene, the clerk initially refused to say that they didn’t need to hire part-time jobs. Maybe he considered that there were too many people on the scene, and then he asked the reporter to add WeChat to communicate first.

flips through his circle of friends. Over the past year, he has been showing off his short videos and photos in the long queues in the store. For example, on July 5, he said proudly in the video: More than 30 people lined up in the rain on rainy days, and there were too many people! For example, on May 5, a long queue of nearly forty or fifty people in the video said, "The team is too long and the road cannot be queued!"

is the following part of the chat records:

Reporter: Do you recruit part-time jobs?

Clerk: Our company only recruits more than 10 people a day, and registers at 6 pm every day, so that the top 20 people can be admitted. It is probably not your turn to register. Unless we use you two in private.

Reporter: What work do we do?

Clerk: The salary is 50 a day, 1,500 a month, and some are 1,000 a month, and get off work from 12:30 to 6:30 a month.

Reporter: What exactly are we going to do? Let me tell us in detail

clerk: I just queue up, and I will queue at least 10 times in 6 hours.

Reporter: What are we queuing up? Are we a child caregiver?

Clerk: It’s not a tow (support), you are a customer, it’s so vulgar.

Reporter: Can you eat it after buying it?

clerk: You can’t eat the ones in the front, you can eat them on the last trip.

Behind the scenes

has a professional company who is responsible for giving away people every day

In a conversation with the clerk, the reporter found that this store may have a lot more than the few people who have investigated and collected evidence in the past two days. So, behind the "queuing economy", how does this chain of interests operate?

The reporter asked the clerk to directly recruit us for part-time jobs, but was rejected.

He said that the intermediary company is responsible for sending people over every day, and the store cannot recruit people directly. He added that the intermediary company has a group with more than 200 people in it. Registered at 6 o'clock the day before and only recruited the top 20 people.

He further explained that if he really wanted to do it, he could take the reporter to meet the boss of the part-time company and then enter his group. "He can make arrangements for you every day."

In fact, it is not just about queuing up. The clerk initially asked about the reporter's height and said that if the height and other conditions are good, the singers who can participate in some activities can also "lip-sync".

survey found that these intermediary companies were very mature. On the one hand, we recruit a large number of part-time personnel and then conduct mass "sales". For some stores that need "child care", the intermediary company is responsible for sending a batch of "child care" every day, with prices ranging from dozens to hundreds of yuan. After the role is completed, the WeChat transfer daily settlement method can quickly pay the fees, and the intermediary can earn the difference.