China closed its borders to control the epidemic. This makes many Vietnamese people wait a whole month and still have not received their order online.
If you order something online, chances are it’s from Shenzhen, the city considered China’s manufacturing powerhouse, home to about half of the country’s online retail exports. headquarters.
Has your order shipped to Shenzhen?
Last two weeks, “did your order out of Shenzhen warehouse?” is a question that receives a lot of interaction on social networks in Vietnam, especially for followers who love online shopping.
When placing international orders on e-commerce platforms, overseas stores will mostly send goods to Yiwu warehouse, Shenzhen warehouse and Shanghai warehouse before entering Vietnam.
Phuong Quynh, living in Ho Chi Minh City, said that there were 7 orders placed from the first month of February, but until now, most of them have not been received.
Quynh said: “I often buy goods internationally on Shopee and Lazada because of the variety of designs, the price is much cheaper than buying domestically. The waiting time is acceptable.”
Normally, it takes about 7-10 days for Quynh to receive the goods, but this time it takes nearly 30 days to receive 2 orders, the rest do not know how time to receive.
“According to the notice that currently out of 5 orders have not been received, only the order to the Shanghai warehouse will be cleared to let the goods in, the rest in Shenzhen has not been notified yet.” – Quynh said.
Ngoc Dung’s friend has an order that has already been shipped from Nghia O warehouse, so it is urgent “but where to ship it, when to hand it over to the shipping unit to ship, it’s a different future”.
Netizens are hand-in-hand with tear-jerking jokes.
Nam Phuong humorously shared: “Put a shockproof bag for the laptop, but it’s in the Shenzhen warehouse until the laptop breaks down”.
Minh Anh lamented: “Put the mask on from the time it was F0 until Hanoi passed the peak of the epidemic, and the goods have not been cleared yet.”
Online sales are also affected
Not only consumers, shop orders (goods are not available, but only imported when customers place an order, deliver a deposit for the seller to import the product) as well as are sitting on a fire because the goods are blocked indefinitely. term.
Mr. Nam, the owner of a shop specializing in ordering goods from Guangzhou in Hanoi, said that since the Lunar New Year, he had been complained by many customers, even demanding to cancel the order and get the deposit back because he couldn’t wait.
“Lucky people only have to wait 2-3 weeks, if not, it’s normal to be determined to “wait” for more than a month but the goods have not arrived yet.” – Mr. Nam told the BBC.
Domestic stores also have to delay production and delivery because they are dependent on waiting for delivery of materials from China.
A clothing shop owner at Ton That Thiep apartment building, Ho Chi Minh City said: “Materials are blocked at the border in China, causing the shop to be affected by scarcity of goods to supply to consumers. However, this is the general situation. So the store had to apologize and explain so that customers could understand.”
China is determined to implement “zero Covid”
While many countries around the world accept to live with the pandemic and relax many restrictions, China still persists in pursuing a no-Covid strategy.
Shenzhen has just undergone a 6-day blockade from March 13 to March 18, causing goods to not be cleared and reach consumers on time.
Similarly, the Shanghai city government started a two-phase blockade plan from March 28 to apply to the western and eastern regions, respectively, to control the worst outbreak in two years.
Many experts believe that if China still applies somewhat extreme blockade measures, it is possible that this country’s economy and global consumers in general and Vietnam in particular will be greatly affected.
Source: BBC.com
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