Recently, the Internet has been surging up, the international situation has been unprecedentedly tense, Sino-US trade frictions are constantly on the rise, and the topic of Internet mobile payment is a commercial focus!
Alipay, as a leader in the field of mobile payment, has brought great convenience to our lives, and it has been rated as one of the "new four inventions" in China by foreigners. Therefore, its every move has attracted everyone's attention!
However, a recent news has caused a heated discussion among netizens!
Not long ago, some netizens broke the news that after shopping at Wal-Mart, they were told to disable Alipay payment, but instead pushed WeChat payment, and also accompanied by a mobile phone shooting announcement, the picture below has the truth!
Subsequently, a reporter contacted the relevant person in charge of Wal-Mart to confirm the news.
Regarding this incident, Wal-Mart's statement is: there is no hostility, pure business decision. At present, all Wal-Mart stores in Kunming (a total of 15) have suspended Alipay payment, and 91 stores across the West China region (including Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing) have temporarily stopped accepting Alipay payment!
In contrast, Tencent said publicly: We respect Wal-Mart's business choices!
All this seems to be singing double reeds. At such a sensitive moment in the international situation (Sino-US trade war), is Wal-Mart (American enterprise) doing this intentionally or unintentionally?
Is the meaning of the drunkard not in the wine, who can speak clearly?
On the other hand, after investigation, Adu found that Tencent had participated in investment (Yonghui Supermarket, Backgammon, Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Super Species, Daily Fresh Convenience, Vipshop, Hailan House, Wanda Commercial), etc. Brand retailing, to a certain extent, is enough to influence each other's business decisions!
This makes it inevitable to speculate: Is Wal-Mart's ban on Alipay, is Tencent behind the promotion of economic benefits?
So, can everyone understand this as: Tencent is testing the market response through the Wal-Mart incident? Or is Tencent preparing to set off a retail business war? Or is the Warmar incident just a war book declared by Tencent?
However, the benevolent see the benevolent see the wisdom, all this is just speculation out of thin air!
However, what is surprising is that even when the online public opinion has turned upside down, Alipay has not moved, and there is no reaction at all. It seems that it has not been taken seriously at all, causing the outside world to speculate on the true intention of Ali ’s reaction !
Is Ali ready to compromise? Or are you accumulating effort?
Adu believes that Alipay will not be able to cope with this matter. It is necessary to know that the new retail and mobile payment markets are the root of Ariane's survival, and it is also a battleground between the two businesses.
As we all know, Ali has deployed offline platforms such as Hema Xiansheng, Auchan, Intime, Suning, RT-Mart, Sanjiang Shopping, Bailian Group, Xinhuadu and Gaoxin Retail!
If Ali really wants to fight back, he can easily ask all of his retail stores to restrict WeChat payment and fight a counter-attack! (However, the result is not)
Not only did there not be any countermeasures, but recently, RT-Mart's new retail COO Yuan Bin also disclosed Alibaba and RT-Mart's all-round cooperation in the new retail reform, and made it clear that it will access all payment methods to provide consumers with sufficient convenience.
At the same time, it also said that it fully meets the different needs of consumers and improves the user experience in new retail.
Chiteng T97 scans the payment cash register box regardless of how Ali counterattacks. At least netizens are now complaining about Tencent. Some people think that: independent operation is the right of merchants, but consumers ’right to choose should be respected.
Wal-Mart's refusal to Alipay seriously damages the interests of consumers and deprives consumers of their choice of payment methods, which is no longer within the scope of normal commercial competition.
Mobile payment is for consumers. We will not accept any vicious competition that attempts to kidnap users at the expense of user rights and interests!
As soon as the news came out, netizens almost cheered Alipay, showing that Ali has won without a fight. Although Alipay has lost some economic benefits for this, it has really won the hearts of the people!
Moreover, at the sensitive moment when the current Sino-U.S. Trade war is likely to be triggered, Wal-Mart ’s move is really intriguing. It is difficult to guess what its real intention is.
In this case, it is definitely not a good time to fight for business and fight for benefits. For this reason, Alipay did not respond and sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, a pair of breezes calmly mastered the world's dignity, Adu liked it!
Regardless of whether Ali is proceeding from the big picture, in short, it is currently silent, to avoid the commercial war from starting at this time, Adu thinks this is enough!
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