Dalian's Small Box Has Huge Consumption But Few Local Businesses Receive Orders.

Here world clothing shoes The small package of the hat net introduces a small package box, but it is rare for local enterprises to receive orders.

A small box stumped Liao Yan. After fixing the source of the goods, the decoration of the shop is coming to an end. As a new seller, she has broken her mind by a small box. "The combined box can not be bought in Dalian, and the freight is too high from abroad. The merchandise I sold was originally a small profit, and each box consumed 1 yuan on freight, which is a great cost account. "

According to the latest release of the State General Postal Administration in July Dalian The volume of express business data, combined with the actual feelings of the local express companies on the proportion of boxed parcels, can estimate that there are about 25 thousand carton packages per day issued by 1.7 000 online stores in Dalian. This number is multiplied by 365 days, that is to say, the huge usage of 9 million 125 thousand boxes per year in Dalian online shop. But behind the huge numbers is the awkward reality of purchasing boxes from Dalian. Most buyers can only import high priced boxes from abroad.

Helpless Internet entrepreneurs

In front of a high-rise residential building in Hi-Tech Park, there will be a young woman's shadow every evening. She will go through every pile of express boxes in the trash bin.

The woman is neither a dilapidated King nor a property officer, but Cheng Fang, the owner of this residential building. Her other identity is the seller of online stores. "Many boxes that neighbors throw away can still be used, and picking up shipments can save a lot of cost."

Cheng Fang specifically searched her Taobao purchase records and retrieved the list of procurement packages from the past 3 years to reporters. 120 36 x 36 x 9 women's aircraft boxes, the box price 297 yuan, freight 150 yuan; Shanghai shipment of women's shoes express box, 70 box price is 126 yuan, freight is 84 yuan; 20, 20 20 20 drawer box, the price of the 20 yuan, from Beijing to Dalian freight for yuan Yuan...... It can be seen that the transportation cost of Cheng Fang's purchase of boxes from abroad is almost half the total price of the box. Take the most common single price 1.8 yuan women's shoes express box as an example, the cost of each shoe box is equal to 1.2 yuan. "My current monthly shipments are around 100 pairs, and the annual cost of shoe boxes is up to 1500 yuan, equivalent to 1500 yuan in net profit. Plus the cost of packaging for women's clothing and accessories, the total number is very painful for me.

Cheng Fang told reporters that she didn't want to pick boxes in the garbage dump at first. But every day, the boxes that the neighbors threw out were still very new. It was the mother who first picked up the boxes for the delivery of clothes, so after saving costs, she also put aside her face and set up the tattered king of the picking boxes.

A box of embarrassing business embarrassment

Cheng Fang said that the reason why she had spent years buying boxes from the South was because he could not find local suppliers in Dalian. "At that time, I didn't know how to get to the factory of the production box, so I went to Taobao search and found that there were only a few online shops selling boxes in Dalian. At the same time, there were very few styles and specifications. Like the box that I sell shoes, it can't be too big or too small. It should be able to accommodate a pair of shoes just now. "

Liao Yan had the same problem. She needs a box of 30 x 18 x 10 shoes, but Taobao sellers on Taobao do not have the size of the box, and even the information of the shoe packaging box can not be searched. At present, Liao Yan is negotiating a shop in Shanghai. There are only 20 different specifications of the shoe packaging box, and there are plenty of stocks available for shipment at any time. "I am in a hurry to start, although the freight is more expensive, but the first batch is to be urgently needed. I don't know if the shoes are good enough to sell, so I'll prepare the first batch of 100 boxes. "

For the Dalian sellers, another hidden worry behind the freight cost of the box is that spending more than 1.2 yuan is equivalent to losing 1.2 yuan in competition with the online shop in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. "In itself, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the source of goods, and I get goods from over there to Dalian, and the transportation cost of the goods itself is more than 5 yuan. Coupled with the cost of the box, many businesses in Dalian will not be able to do a lot of small profits.

This market can not be ignored.

Regardless of Cheng Fang or Liao Yan, the bothering of packaging boxes is expected to continue. Two people believe that there is no better solution in the short term. In the interview, the reporter learned that the two person is not a case. Most of the small and medium-sized online shops that occupy the vast majority of Dalian's online stores have long been able to purchase the spot packaging boxes which can be purchased in small quantities because of the small quantity or no way to connect the manufacturers.

This is a market that can not be overlooked. According to the latest data released by the State General Postal Administration on July, in the first 6 months of this year, the volume of express business in and out of Dalian was 19 million 376 thousand, representing an increase of nearly 30% compared with the same period in 2013. If we refer to the data of the second half of last year, we will expect more than 38 million express entries to and from Dalian this year. In an interview with 6 express companies, reporters learned that Dalian is a typical city to arrive. The proportion of parcels arriving from Dalian every day to Dalian is 7:3, that is to say, about 11 million 400 thousand packages are issued by Dalian online stores this year. At present, boxed parcels are much higher than bagged parcels, because Dalian stores mainly sell food, accessories, electronic products and handicrafts. Most of these goods are packed in cartons, so up to 80% of Dalian's outbound parcels are packed in boxes, forming 9 million 125 thousand purchases per year.

This figure is also likely to be larger. In the interview, a courier company claiming to be the bottom of the volume gave its single figures. According to the statistics of the internal statistics and combined with the above algorithm, the company sent 13 thousand and 600 boxes of packages from Dalian every day, totaling 4 million 964 thousand pieces a year, exceeding half of 9 million 125 thousand. Another top ranking courier company gives a conservative estimate of 60 thousand pieces of box parcels per day for 6 express companies in Dalian. If this data is more realistic, Dalian stores will have an annual response. Packing box The demand has exceeded 20 million.