According to Xinhua News Agency, in qianxi county, there used to be a bowl of beef powder, a single bowl of 9 yuan, a big bowl of 11 yuan, and 5 yuan with meat. After the price increase, a single bowl is 11 yuan, a large bowl is 12 yuan, and 7 yuan with meat is added. According to this calculation, a large bowl of beef powder with meat is 19 yuan. This means that a large bowl of beef powder with meat has risen from 15 yuan to 19 yuan, an increase of more than 26%.

The qianxi county Municipal Market Supervision Bureau and others followed up the investigation and found that there was illegal manipulation by merchants behind the "willful price increase" of beef and mutton powder. In accordance with the relevant punishment law, the two operators were given administrative warnings and no administrative penalties were imposed. And in the local investigation of beef and mutton powder restaurant 26 households, qianxi county beef and mutton powder prices gradually restored to the original price.

From the chat records of local beef noodle shop managers' industry groups circulating on the Internet, it can be seen that there are indeed merchants discussing, calling for collective price increases, and unifying the price of beef, which is the key reason why the relevant merchants are punished. As a catering industry whose price has already been fully marketized, operators can set their own prices, and it is understandable to raise prices by themselves, but collective collusion obviously violates the provisions of the price law.

due to the wide application of social media tools, this kind of collective communication in the form of "store managers" is very common, and it also brings convenience to "conspire with each other and manipulate market prices". Of course, it also makes the investigation and evidence collection by market supervision departments very simple.