Chapter 156: Fight against fake strawberries!
Of course, giving gifts is essential during the holidays!
"Oh no! How come Gaotang strawberries are sold out!" Zhang Wen poked the screen hard, not giving up even though the font had turned gray.
I was planning to buy some online a few days in advance for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Recently, Gaotang strawberries have been released in gift boxes, which would be perfect for gifts and would definitely make me look good. Gaotang strawberries are notoriously hard to buy and are sold out in seconds once they are put on the shelves.
She specially set a time to grab the strawberries, but she couldn't get more than everyone else in the country. Her hands were about to cramp from pressing them, and she was stuck there, watching the strawberries disappear in the blink of an eye.
It’s okay that I didn’t get anything else, but the Gaotang strawberries are so delicious!
She couldn't even get it!
These people's hands are so fast, Zhang Wen gritted her teeth.
Her home is not far from Yuncheng, and the express delivery can be delivered in about a day. Unexpectedly, she still failed to get it even after several days in advance.
After clicking on the restocking reminder, Zhang Wen can only look forward to the next time.
She was browsing her phone out of boredom and complaining to her friend about how hard it was to buy strawberries. Unexpectedly, her friend recommended a place to her, saying that they were sold in Wanmao Supermarket and that it was almost the holiday season, so many people were rushing to buy them, so she told her to go quickly.
She stood up in surprise, told her mother, and immediately drove to the supermarket.
After driving for nearly an hour, she finally arrived. This was her first time in this supermarket. The fruit and vegetable section was very large and the fruits and vegetables looked very fresh. Of course, the prices were also higher than other places.
She had never even eaten some of the niche fruits, so it was indeed one of the high-end imported supermarkets in the country.
Each fruit and vegetable is labeled with its place of origin, purchase time, and various nutritional test instructions, including vitamin content, sugar content, etc., and even special data on pesticide residue testing.
I walked along the way, picked out several kinds of fruits that I had never eaten before and put them into the shopping basket, then headed straight to the Gaotang strawberry area.
As expected, it was a festival and many people were taking packaged strawberries. Zhang Wen passed a few middle-aged women and squeezed in sideways. Fortunately, there were still a lot of them inside.
I took a special look at the label and confirmed that they were Gaotang strawberries. I picked out five or six boxes, each box had about twenty or so, each one was plump and bright red. I also wanted to see white strawberries, but I didn't expect there weren't any here. Maybe they hadn't arrived yet.
Zhang Wen put the strawberries into the shopping cart and finally squeezed them out, but the strawberries that had just been put in were taken away by the uncles and aunts.
She couldn't help feeling proud. Fortunately, she was quick to buy it, otherwise it would have been bought by someone else.
I picked some imported fruits and looked at the labels. They are so expensive!
After buying the fruits, she bought some fresh vegetables, seafood, and beef. She looked at some new flavors of mooncakes, bought a few boxes, and then went home.
As soon as she got home, Zhang Wen's mother poked her head out of the kitchen:
"What did you buy?" Big and small bags.
Zhang Wen panted, put the things on the table, and went downstairs to get them.
I was so happy when I bought it that I filled up two shopping carts.
I thought it would be a waste to drive all the way here just to buy some strawberries, so I bought quite a few that seemed suitable. I had a shopping cart that I could drag directly to the parking lot, so I didn't feel like there were too many things.
But when I got back, even though there was an elevator, it was still troublesome to carry everything at once as they were too heavy and too many.
"Mom, please help me get some things!" Zhang Wen looked pitiful, her hands were red.
"Why buy so many things? We already have them at home." Zhang Wen's mother muttered to herself and followed her downstairs to get them.
The two of them ran back and forth two or three times before they finished the trip. Zhang Wen bought a lot of drinks and daily necessities, which took up a lot of space.
After returning home, Zhang Wen came back to life. She put all the strawberries in the refrigerator, immediately opened a box, washed them, and brought them out.
"Mom, come and have some strawberries. I ran over to buy them specially."
The strawberries were big and red, but a little smaller than the ones she bought online last time. Zhang Wen gave one to her mother first, then took one for herself and couldn't wait to bite into it.
As soon as she took a bite, Zhang Wen frowned. After tasting it carefully, she felt that the taste was different from what she had eaten before.
Although it tastes good, it just doesn’t have that flavor, and she can’t describe it.
Just like the same water, some have similar quality, but some are clearer and sweeter.
She didn't believe it, so she picked another one at random, but it still didn't taste right.
She was sure that the strawberries labeled in the supermarket were Gaotang strawberries. Was there something wrong with her taste buds?
She still remembers the first time she ate Gaotang strawberries. It was simply amazing and she has never forgotten the taste.
I was afraid that I might have tasted something different from what I ate outside, so I ran to rinse my mouth with a sanitary napkin, and then ate another one, but it was still different.
"Mom, do you think this strawberry is delicious?"
"Of course it tastes good if it's so expensive!" Zhang Wen's mother didn't know what her daughter was doing. She was already eating her second one.
Zhang Wen deliberately didn't say where these strawberries came from, and continued to ask: "Mom, what do you think of these strawberries compared to the Gaotang strawberries I bought before?"
"Why do we need to compare? Of course the previous strawberries are better! This one is a bit too sweet if you eat too much, and it's not as fragrant as the Gaotang strawberries. It's also smaller in size, and the color doesn't look as bright as the previous ones."
Zhang Wen's mother rolled her eyes and said, as housewives, no one knows more about fruits and vegetables than them.
Just by looking at the appearance of fruits and vegetables, you can roughly judge whether they are fresh, whether they have been sprayed with pesticides, and whether they are grown in a greenhouse or in the open air.
The more experienced ones can even easily tell which fruits and vegetables are from good places, and which fruits and vegetables have just been harvested and not stored for too long...
Although this strawberry is also delicious, any discerning person can tell the difference when comparing it with Gaotang strawberry.
There is no need to compare them at all, the difference is just in appearance.
"Why don't you buy Gaotang strawberries?" Zhang Wen's mother asked in confusion.
Zhang Wen felt that she bought a fake product!
Although it was a bit wrong to say that the fruit was fake, she was sure that this was not Gaotang strawberry!
Swear by her mother's superior judgement!
"This is the 'Gaotang strawberry' I bought," Zhang Wen curled her lips.
She is so angry!
These strawberries are much more expensive than the ones she bought online. She originally thought that other factors needed to be considered offline, so she could accept a higher price. But what if it is not?
What right does it have to commit fraud!
Zhang Wen's mother denied it: "Impossible, absolutely impossible." Doesn't she know what Gaotang strawberries look like? In addition to her daughter's frequent online shopping, she also went to the place of production to buy them!
Who told her that she had relatives in Gaotang County who could take her there?
However, she did not tell her daughter. She and her husband ate up the strawberries they bought in less than two days. Her daughter had to go to work, and when she came back on the weekend, they were gone. So she did not tell her daughter because she could buy them online anyway.
Based on her experience, she was sure that this was definitely not the case.
The two looked at each other, Zhang Wen opened her eyes wide, and looked angry:
"That means the supermarket is cheating people!" Bah! Swindlers!
She wants to complain!
Zhang Wen's mother stopped her and said, "There's no evidence yet. What if you file a complaint and they deny it? Such a big supermarket has plenty of ways to deny it."
“Let the supermarket cheat us? This is much more expensive than the real Gaotang strawberry!” The key is that it’s not as delicious as other people’s strawberries.
"Go directly to the official website and ask the customer service, or call. I have the contact information of the village." Zhang Wen's mother had a calm expression. Fortunately, she left her contact information when she ran over to pick the fruits last time, otherwise she would have no choice but to go to the customer service.
Zhang Wen didn't pay attention to how her mother got her contact information. She went straight to the shopping website, found the customer service interface and started asking.
The customer service representative there was Ye Yuan, and she happened to be responsible for responding to some customer questions.
After reading the message from the other party, she felt puzzled. She remembered that the village strawberries were not sold to Wanmao Supermarket. She had a detailed list of sales here.
There are people in China who purchase strawberries wholesale, but the majority of them are abroad. If she remembered correctly, only her second uncle's family and Wanmao Supermarket had cooperation, which was not right. The strawberries of her second uncle's family were the same as those in the village and were not sold separately.
So what's the matter with Wanmao Supermarket?
She left a message to the other party asking for a reply while she checked, and then asked the other party to wait for a while and then directly asked other village cadres.
Because the village office has not been built yet, everyone is working at the village committee. Naturally, the village committee cadres all stay together. Ye Yuan and other colleagues sit together to work.
The matter came up quickly. The village chief happened to be there. He thought carefully and even took out the notebook to check the list on the computer. He looked carefully for a long time and confirmed that it was not wholesaled to Wanmao Supermarket. Then he gave a reply:
“No, we didn’t sell it to each other.”
"A customer said that Wanmao Supermarket sells our strawberries, but she said that the strawberries bought from the supermarket taste different from those bought online. If we don't sell them to her, then the supermarket is selling strawberries from other places under the name of our village."
"Then what should we do?" Ye Yuan told everything and was very angry.
It would be fine if the strawberries tasted good, but if they weren’t, wouldn’t that ruin the reputation of their village’s strawberries?
The village cadres looked at each other in bewilderment; they had not expected anyone to do such a thing.
The village chief pondered, "In this way, we will put a QR code and batch number on the strawberry packaging boxes we sell in the future. By the way, how about recruiting people in the village? Find an Internet technician and set one up, and then we can check it later."
Don't think he doesn't know there are a lot of fakes nowadays. The skin care products and other things his daughter buys have to be checked by scanning the code on the official website. The strawberries in their village just have a sticker on the packaging, so it's just a matter of spending a little more money.
The cadre in charge of recruitment nodded and said, "We have almost recruited enough people, but the venue has not been built yet, so we are a bit stuck."
"Tell them to speed up, give them some bonuses, and increase their salaries." After giving the instructions, the village chief asked Ye Yuan to explain the situation to the other party.
Ye Yuan nodded, turned around and started typing: "Dear, our village has never cooperated with Wanmao Supermarket to sell strawberries."
When Zhang Wen saw the reply from the official customer service, she immediately verified her guess, wrote a very sarcastic essay and uploaded it to the official website service of Wanmao Supermarket. She then clicked the report button and uploaded a screenshot of the conversation.
Wanmao Supermarket has a special service platform, which contains introductions to various new fruits and vegetables and their origins, as well as quality inspection reports for various fruits. Zhang Wen left negative and positive reviews on the strawberry column.
In order to be more convincing, I uploaded the photo of Gaotang strawberries I had taken earlier, and also took a photo of the strawberries I had just bought from Wanmao Supermarket. The two were in sharp contrast, and I just waited for them to process it.
Wanmao Supermarket is a large supermarket after all, with many high-end users. Many people check and browse it every day, so Zhang Wen’s essay is still quite conspicuous.
Thinking of how many people were rushing to buy strawberries at Wanmao Supermarket, Zhang Wen was furious. In order to prevent people from being cheated, she posted this anti-counterfeiting essay on different social platforms. Although she is an unknown person, Gaotang strawberries are famous, and if more people can see them, fewer people will be cheated.
At this time, Wang Xin was still complacent, not knowing that his cleverness had been discovered.
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