The main sources of expired food: 1, large supermarkets (domestic) more than one-third of the shelf life of the food has not been sold, basically large supermarkets will be off the shelves, and imported food is to half of the shelf life of the large supermarkets will be off the shelves, 2, e-commerce platforms for the return of the goods, 3, the use of the expiration date of the food source platform to check warehouses, looking for sources, booking sources of supply and so on, 4, the dealers hand real Into the expiration date of the food 5, customs sources

The main source of expired food by the market some dealers in the completion of the company's monthly sales tasks in a large number of market sales of supermarkets wholesale customers to return the goods, the return of these goods, most of the date of the return of more than half, although it can be sold, but in order not to affect the brand, and to promote the market normal sales, this part of the goods, recovered after the dealers will be through the account manager to the company to ask for some policy subsidies for the second time. The company wants some policy subsidies to carry out secondary sales.

In order not to affect the market, the general secondary sales dealers mostly choose special channel customers, such as high school schools, university supermarkets, Internet cafes, dance halls, factory supermarkets, canteens, construction site supermarkets, food court, chain restaurants, etc., which is the main source, there are a number of dealers closing down, supply chain closure and other special sources.

China's expired food warehouses are mainly located in port cities, such as Tianjin, Shanghai and Qingdao, etc. Expired food companies are also mostly established in these areas, which have the advantages of being located in the vicinity of warehouses, having convenient access to goods, communicating with the warehouses in a timely manner and providing after-sales service. In other regions, it is difficult to purchase goods, difficult to inspect warehouses, inefficient communication and high logistics costs and time spent, which makes it difficult to operate stores. Inland provinces to buy goods spent in the cost of logistics costs accounted for 5% -10% of the cost ratio, transferred to the product side, resulting in the price advantage of the expiration date food compared to the regular price of the product is not obvious, the competitiveness of the impact.