On Mid-Autumn Festival Day, Supermarkets Take Mooncakes Off Shelves and Return Them to Manufacturers; Unsold Mooncakes Reduced to Pig Feed

Date2026.09.25

LocationBeijing

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On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, supermarkets took unsold mooncakes off the shelves and returned them to the manufacturers. Some slow-selling mooncakes were bought back by a feed factory in Hebei at 1,000 yuan per ton and used as pig feed.

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2026-10-02 00:42 · 一个狠人发布了新视频：100塊的月餅券轉一圈沒出一塊餅！最優解是多賣券少交貨、今年黃牛直接不收券了、廠家反過來賒帳求訂單、節後一噸餅只值1000塊、金融屬性越強跌得越慘！能核的社零負3.7%總數卻是正的

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Original event Mainstream e-commerce mooncake sales fall 21.6% year-on-year

2026.06 ·Reported ·Importance II ·China

Original event Price of Guangzhou Restaurant Official Flagship Store's Mooncakes Halved in a Single Day

09.20 ·Verified ·Importance II ·Guangzhou, Guangdong

This event On Mid-Autumn Festival Day, Supermarkets Take Mooncakes Off Shelves and Return Them to Manufacturers; Unsold Mooncakes Reduced to Pig Feed 2026.09.25 · Verified

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Article · 2026-10-02 00:28 A 100-yuan mooncake voucher changes hands without a single cake being produced! The optimal play is to sell more vouchers and deliver less, scalpers aren't even buying vouchers this year, manufacturers are now extending credit to chase orders, after the holiday a ton of cakes is worth only 1000 yuan, the stronger the financial character, the harder the fall! The verifiable retail sales figure is minus 3.7% yet the headline number is positive

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