While ordinary people are still sleeping, Xinfa Market is already bustling with traffic and traffic.
Qu Qin is a small vendor at the farmer's market in the Capital District. Like other small vendors, he comes here to wholesale vegetables at around 4 o'clock every day, and then drags it back to the market around 6 o'clock. After tidying up, he has to open his stall around 7 o'clock.
Do business.
Xinfa Wholesale Market is the largest agricultural product wholesale market in the capital area and even in the country. It covers a very large area and is divided into different categories. Hundreds of kinds of vegetables, meats, fruits and vegetables are sold wholesale here. It is the largest agricultural product market that supplies the capital.
Qu Qin sells vegetables. He came to several wholesale stalls that he was familiar with. He skillfully selected the vegetables he wanted, put them on his cart, and prepared to drag them to the large tricycle outside and then go home.
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But when he was walking back, he suddenly saw a large number of people rushing towards a place, and he was startled.
Just when he saw an acquaintance, Qu Qin grabbed him and asked, "What are you doing? Something happened?"
"No, someone brought a truckload of garlic to sell. I heard it only cost 2.5 yuan!" said the acquaintance as he ran towards the large army.
When Qu Qin heard this, he couldn't hold himself still. He quickly put the cart aside, said hello to the vendor next to him, and followed him regardless of whether others agreed or not.
After the National Day, the price of garlic has not dropped. Instead, the wholesale price of garlic shipped to the capital has risen to about 3.5 yuan, which is a sky-high price compared to about 0.8 yuan last year.
After Quqin wholesales some products and reaches the market, the retail price has to be raised to 5 yuan per catty in order to make some money.
However, because the price of garlic is too high, the customers who buy it are much more cautious and buy very little. There is still a lot of goods left three days ago.
Now I suddenly heard that the price of garlic has actually been reduced to 2.5 yuan per pound at the wholesale price, so taking it back and selling it for 3.8 yuan is enough to make money. You can also sell more, which is an opportunity to make money!
When Qu Qin rushed over, he found that the unloading area was already crowded with people. Everyone squeezed in front of a heavy truck and were shouting something.
"2.5 yuan per pound, 2.5 yuan per pound, that's right! Just weigh it and get the money!" the two drivers shouted loudly, responding to everyone who asked.
You can trade directly in the unloading area here. There are large and small scales next to it.
I saw a few workers standing at the door of the open carriage, taking out bags of garlic one after another, and the people over there began to fight over them.
"I want three bags!"
"Thirty bags!"
"A hundred bags!"
"Half a car!"
"I want all of this batch!"
The scene was very noisy, as if someone was trying to grab something.
At this moment, a group of people suddenly surrounded a truck not far from here.
"What? 2.3 yuan a pound of garlic? Really?"
"Two bags, hurry up!!"
Qu Qin happened to be on the periphery. Hearing such a sound, he rushed over and saw another heavy truck. It was full of garlic.
"There's one here too...it's still 2.3..."
"Three more cars came over there, and they only cost 2.28 yuan!"
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As more and more vehicles came in, everyone was trying to attract them. They also started to cut prices continuously, so the noise became even more noisy.
Because prices are constantly falling, everyone doesn’t know where to buy goods.
As a result, Qu Qin didn't care about it anymore. When the price finally dropped to 2.1 yuan per catty, he bought three bags of 300 catties. Then he rushed back to his vegetable stall and quickly sold out at the price of 3 yuan per catty.
The goods were all sold out in the morning.
He had long heard that garlic would continue to come in the afternoon. After lunch, he ran to Xinfa Market. What he saw was as many as 30 to 50 heavy trucks waiting to line up, all of which were towed.
It's garlic.
Based on the average load of a heavy truck of 50 tons, more than 3,000 tons of garlic came in today!
Such a large number has never been seen in the past few months.
What's more, the price is getting cheaper and cheaper. Some people say that garlic will definitely drop to 1.5 yuan per pound today.
Although Qu Qin thinks the price is too exaggerated, you can probably buy it for around 78 yuan.
According to the drivers, they came from Sichuan, Xiangshui, and Caiyun. The garlic merchants there have seen their prices plummet in the past few days, basically only 1 yuan per pound.
So someone organized 1 million tons and prepared to sell them to northern cities one after another.
And not only here in the capital, there are about 1 million tons in the east, ready to be sold to various places in the south of the Yangtze River.
Good guy!
Thinking that a full 2 million tons have been put on the market, and the daily consumption in the capital is only 600 to 700 tons, and today they sold about five days' worth, if so much comes back in a few days, how much will the price of garlic drop?
Even Qu Qin couldn't control that much. He bought another 1,000 kilograms in the afternoon and went back to sell it.
According to the enthusiasm of the customers in the morning, they didn't know that there would be such a large amount of garlic recently, so if they took this opportunity to sell it to them at a suitable price, they would definitely buy a few kilograms, or even a dozen kilograms.
Went back and left it.
There are many small vendors who think the same as Qu Qin, and even supermarkets do the same thing.
So in the afternoon, everyone who went out to buy vegetables suddenly discovered that the price of garlic had miraculously dropped to a low price of 2.8 per pound.
Although it is much more expensive than in the first half of the year, it is almost half the price compared to yesterday!
Everyone has the idea of picking up bargains, so many small vendors, including Qu Qin, made one to two thousand yuan on garlic today, which can be said to be a huge profit.
But in the evening, the news was broadcast.
Looking at the heavy trucks loaded with garlic that the reporters saw during the interview, and listening to the drivers talking about how 2 million tons will be put on the market, which will be enough for everyone to eat for as many days as possible, the adults and mothers who bought a lot of garlic,
Then I started to scold these vendors for being unethical!
They don’t know that China’s annual garlic output is only about 4 million tons. How could it be possible that 2 million tons were invested in the northern and Jiangnan markets in such a short period of time?
Many small traders who were hoarding garlic were frightened when they saw it. They were afraid that the big traders thought it was time to sell their goods, so they sold large amounts of money and left at a profit, leaving their goods to be sold.
If you don't go out, you will bear the loss.
But they are not so unsettled and are ready to wait another two days to take a look.
The big traders also frowned a bit. Although they are used to exaggerating on TV, if other competitors want to make a profit and leave the market, they will also be tying up the goods in their hands.
Well, let's wait two more days and see.
Unfortunately, in the next two days, more than 5,000 tons of garlic were still shipped to the capital and Dongfang markets every day. Along with the surrounding Jinwei, Jiangnan and other markets, tens of thousands of tons of garlic poured into the market, and garlic prices responded.
And descend.
Looking at the almost continuous flow of heavy trucks entering the wholesale market, the market price of garlic has continued to drop to 2.3 yuan, and the wholesale price has dropped to an ultra-low price of 1.5 yuan. Now the small-scale garlic merchants can no longer stand still, and they are all swarming.
were sold to wholesalers who purchased garlic.
Anyway, the price of garlic in their hands was only 20, 30, 30, 50 cents, and now they have made a lot of money at this price.
Wholesalers who bought garlic quickly loaded the goods into trucks and shipped them to wholesale markets in various cities.
They won't go to the capital and Dongfang. If too much garlic hits there, the price will definitely not rise.
So they are rushing to the market in second- and third-tier cities, where they can still sell at a good price.
As surrounding garlic dealers continued to ship goods, more garlic dealers became unsteady and began to ship goods.
This trend spread to those vendors who stocked the most goods. With such large-scale shipments and plummeting prices, it was useless for them to hold on, so they also joined the ranks.
Those who have been hoarding goods are not miserable, but those merchants who bought garlic at high prices are miserable. Not only did they not make money, but they suffered a huge loss, but they had to sell the goods, otherwise they would miss the opportunity and not be able to sell.
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Just like that, within just one week, garlic prices plummeted by 60%, returning to a normal price range.
Although many people are shipping, what is a bit strange is that the price of garlic has not plummeted to the price of cabbage. Although many garlic merchants are wondering about this, now is a good time to ship, and they don’t care so much.
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In fact, many people have not seen that in various large wholesale markets, many merchants are buying garlic in large quantities, loading them all into trucks, and transporting them to dozens of cold storage warehouses around the city.
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It is because of such large purchases that the price of garlic has not fallen to the bottom.
The happiest people are naturally the common people. They were all complaining that garlic was too expensive and they could hardly afford it. But suddenly the price of garlic became cheaper. It’s great!
Their happiness was based on the loss of Fairy Company reaching 2 billion.
Hou Mutai and others purchased a total of 300,000 tons of garlic in places like Shuchuan and Caiyun, and invested heavily in the markets around the capital and the East. Even if this batch of goods was not sold out, the garlic merchants could no longer maintain their stability, and then they
Just keep receiving goods.
In this process of buying, selling and collecting, the losses reached this much, not including the payment for millions of tons of goods.
Overall, this transaction was a huge loss.
But Xiao Qi is very happy to attack these guys who only know how to drive up prices, so that they will not dare to be so presumptuous in the future. This gain is much greater than just making money! (To be continued)