Industry monopoly has always been strictly prohibited by relevant departments. If any enterprise dares to take the world by storm and insists on doing so, it will be severely punished. Alibaba used to be fined 18.228 billion yuan for monopolizing the Internet retail industry. Now Meituan is fined 3.442 billion yuan for monopolizing. A series of punishments all warn enterprises not to make crazy explorations on the edge of danger, and monopolistic behavior is definitely not desirable.
when it comes to enterprise monopoly, maybe you don't know what the so-called monopoly means, and what is the boundary of judging monopoly? In fact, monopoly refers to the fact that some large capitalist enterprises operate behind the scenes on the prices and production of certain products in the market through cooperation or agreement, so as to control and monopolize them and reap high profits.
as for the definition of enterprise monopoly, it can be defined in the following aspects: firstly, the entry and exit of enterprises are unrestricted, which means that enterprises can freely produce and sell without constraints; Secondly, this enterprise is dominant in a certain industry. Although there are many other enterprises in this industry, it does not constitute competitiveness, and this enterprise occupies a dominant position. There are also many small buyers in this industry, and the products they buy are very similar. If you have all the above characteristics, then you can judge that an enterprise has monopolistic behavior.
Next, let's talk specifically about what the US delegation was fined for. As we all know, Meituan occupies a dominant position in the take-away industry, and can even be said to be a monopoly. Although there were word-of-mouth takeaways, hungry, etc. before, they were slowly defeated, which also made the status of the "boss" of the US Mission more and more stable.
In order to gain more benefits, Meituan takes advantage of its dominant position in the take-away industry and forces cooperative businesses to "choose one from the other" by various means. That is to say, if the merchant wants to put his own goods on the Meituan, he can no longer cooperate with other take-away platforms. On the contrary, if he cooperates with other take-away platforms, Meituan will refuse to cooperate with the merchant.
At the same time, Meituan also used big data and some special algorithms to formulate a variety of punishment methods, which exploited the profits of merchants and riders. Moreover, Meituan also implements differential rates in the industry and collects exclusive cooperation deposits, thus seeking more benefits for itself.
this series of practices has seriously harmed fair competition in the market, and is not conducive to stimulating market vitality and innovation, and at the same time has caused a bad sense of experience for merchants and users. In the end, the relevant departments ordered Meituan to immediately stop illegal activities, return the exclusive cooperation deposit of 1.289 billion yuan, and impose a fine of 3.442 billion yuan.
the monopolistic behavior of the industry has damaged the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and the fair competition order in the market, which is contrary to the direction of social and economic development and needs to be resolutely punished. The case that Meituan was severely punished for monopolistic behavior also warned that all enterprises must strictly abide by the market order and never do illegal acts.