The increase of free shipping threshold is increasingly highlighting the difficulty of enlarging the profitability of the electric business

This newspaper Jinan March 18 News (reporter Chira Intern Wang Minghui) "I will be scolded." Since March, Dangdang has increased the standard of posting to 200 cities outside the city, from 29 yuan to full 99 yuan. "Dangdang CEO Guoqing recently posted an email price increase message on Weibo. This is increasingly highlighting the current difficulties in the profitability of the electricity business, loss of the expansion of the plight.

From this month, Dangdang implemented nearly 2 years of the full 29 yuan free of charge policy range, contracted to the National 200 key cities (including Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai, Zibo, etc.), other areas less than 99 yuan customers, have to add 5 yuan freight. In fact, early in the Dangdang, Jingdong Mall began to less than 39 yuan orders to collect 5 yuan distribution fee; In this month, the last full free shipping of the outstanding Amazon, but also announced that only shopping for 29 yuan to enjoy free shipping concessions.

In addition, in the provision of online shopping platform Taobao and Cat Mall, in the express industry many times after the price hike, most of the shop has already canceled the package mail service, by netizens relish the "pro, Package mail Oh" is gradually becoming the past style.

The postal service of the gradual distance, highlighting the outstanding power of the current losses intensified, the difficulties of increasing income. Recently, the industry unanimously optimistic to operate socks underwear mainly cotton network, outgoing arrears of millions of yuan layoffs and contraction of the news, and the creation of the said three years to clean out Taobao "Product Poly Network" also announced the closure of the end of last year.