8000 cups of a little milk tea arrived in Shanghai overnight, and some people sold milk tea to make money.

Even though materials such as milk tea and coffee are not as important as green vegetables and meat, this kind of non-essential items of life is one of the important condiments for the human spirit. With the arrival of the Labour Day holiday, it is only natural that we should have a cup of milk tea to calm down. Milk tea as a non-essential, of course, it is impossible to buy, so some clever brains renamed it to "calcium tea polyphenol soup (on behalf of fried)", so it can successfully enter the community. As a result, there are more than 8000 cups of milk tea sent across provinces to Shanghai overnight to earn money.

On the first day of the May Day holiday, more than 400 community "leaders" from Putuo, Jing'an and other districts in Shanghai bought a little bit of milk tea, and the milk tea was delivered on time. Everyone is happy to drink the milk tea that has been talked about all the time.

However, things got out of control on May 1st, and the milk tea, which was scheduled to arrive in the afternoon, was not delivered until 11:30 that evening. But who would choose to drink milk tea in the early hours of the morning? Many people dazzle a cup of milk tea in the afternoon and have to endure the pain of insomnia in the evening, not to mention drinking milk tea in the wee hours of the morning.

However, delivering milk tea in the middle of the night is still a small matter. Friends who often buy milk tea should notice that a label will be affixed to the surface of the cup with information such as the name of the product, the price of the product, the time of issuing the ticket, the store and so on.

When these consumers are happy to receive the long-awaited milk tea, they find that this little bit of milk tea is not produced by local stores in Shanghai, but from stores hundreds of kilometers away. They found that some of the milk teas had a difference of six hours, eight hours, or even nearly 24 hours from production time to delivery. Moreover, the specifications of milk tea received are different from those when they were ordered.

Prior to this, the Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission took the question of "how long it takes to drink milk tea" seriously in August 2021 and asked professional institutions to test the total number and changes of the total number of bacteria in milk tea. The test results showed that with the passage of time, the total number of colonies soared every hour. Even the total number of Chilled Mango Sago Cream with Pomelo colonies in unopened oatmeal milk is still growing at an alarming rate, from 2700 CFU/mL,4 hours to 81000 CFU/mL,6 hours to 95000 CFU/mL in 2 hours. Therefore, consumers often see a reminder on the label saying "Please drink within XX minutes / hour" when buying milk tea products.

This cup of cross-provincial milk tea is equivalent to a petri dish of bacteria. The order placed early in the morning has already been delivered at midnight. Can such milk tea still be drunk? This has also aroused the doubts of many people.

The official price of milk tea of the same specification is about 15 yuan per cup, but the group purchase price is 28,030 yuan per cup, the price has doubled. Such huge profits have spawned a malformed supply chain. Some netizens said that at the beginning, the "head" group owner said that his milk tea shop was opened in Shanghai, and the three certificates were complete. However, the epidemic and the May Day holiday of the double buff, the audit of foreign workers is more stringent. The incident of "cross-provincial milk tea" can no longer be hidden.

Netizens in Little Red Book revealed that according to the incomplete statistics of a group of "leaders", the purchasing agent earned 250000 yuan as a result. The netizen also said that the freight vehicle seen at the time of receiving the goods was not a cold chain car, but a private car with a Shanghai license plate.

After this issue attracted attention, it led to a batch refund request from the "leaders", and later disbanded the WeChat group directly.

On May 2, a reporter contacted the logistics person in charge of dispatching and distributing vehicles, and his response said that due to the epidemic, a little bit of raw material warehouse in Shanghai had been closed, and the remaining raw materials in local stores in Shanghai had been used up on the 30th. At the same time, the reporter also contacted the Hangzhou store that made milk tea and asked whether the milk tea that had been too long was still drinkable, while the store responded that everything made that day was drinkable.

On the evening of May 3, some residents reported that a little bit of blind milk tea, which had been bought for 35 yuan from a group purchase channel, had diarrhea after drinking milk tea made at 10:00 on May 1, and was diagnosed with gastroenteritis and fever after being sent to hospital.

On the same day, a little bit of brand posted a "letter to fans" on the official account of Wechat, saying it was shocked by the incident. In special times, reselling materials at high prices is not allowed by the law, and it is also contrary to a little bit of management regulations. It takes a long time to purchase and distribute in different places, and it is easy to deteriorate if the drinks are improperly preserved, which seriously endangers the rights and interests of consumers. Please be careful to choose compliance purchase channels.

An official Wechat account published an article saying that the so-called milk tea shop manager's group purchase of milk tea is a cover, which is essentially a group of people reselling milk tea.

When some netizens went to inquire about this person and this store, even a little bit of the main store said that there was no such person.

Some netizens dug up the group buying organization group owner is actually the barber shop staff, netizens dug up this "milk tea Tony teacher" work barbershop brand, many netizens to the brand Dianping left skeptical comments. The barber shop involved said it had called the police and said the personal behavior had nothing to do with the shop.

There are also "leaders" who revealed that the group would be removed after telling the truth in the group.

Outside the controlled area, we may not know what a cup of milk tea means. The purchase of daily necessities should also be reported for approval, hoping for the stars and the moon to finally get an opportunity to buy milk tea, but the hope was shattered because of some people's crooked ways.

Photo source: boss broadcast Weibo video, a little bit of Wechat official account, Xiao Hongshu, Dianping

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