In your size, it should be a community supermarket or a 24-hour convenience store. First of all, you should consider what customer group your supermarket is positioned in and what the surrounding conditions are suitable for selling. Only in this way can we judge how much to invest. Community-based residents are the main types, while convenience-based services are long and convenient. Your problem can't be solved in one or two sentences. You should look up relevant information in many ways on the Internet. My large supermarket is going to open 40 community supermarkets this year, which seems to be the future development direction. I found some information that you can look at: So what is the cost of joining Quik to open a chain convenience store? Yang, manager of the development department of Zhejiang Lianhua Quik Convenience Co., Ltd., sent a brochure about joining conditions and approximate expenses. According to reports, if you want to join Lianhua Express, first of all, entrepreneurs should have a clear understanding of the business risks of investing in opening stores, own or legally lease stores suitable for opening convenience stores, and enjoy the right to use them for more than three years. At the same time, there are about 654.38+ten thousand yuan of funds. In addition, there are four major items involving fees: First, the deposit. The franchisee shall pay a joining deposit of RMB 20,000 (the joining deposit will be refunded after the natural termination of the joining agreement). The second is to join the equity. The franchisee shall pay a fixed franchise fee to the franchisor every year, and the charging standard for the store area below 30 square meters is: 3,000 yuan in the first year; 5000 yuan in the second year; 7000 yuan in the third year; Store area of 3 0 square meters or more, 5000 yuan in the first year; 7000 yuan in the second year; 9000 yuan in the third year. The third is the opening reserve. The franchisor pays the opening deposit in one lump sum, which is 65,438 yuan +0.500 yuan/home within the urban area; 3,000 yuan/home from other places. The fourth is the logistics distribution fee. According to the supply price of the rationed goods, the logistics distribution charges the franchisees, and the charging standard is 2.5% in the city and 3.5% outside the city. In this way, without considering the rent, labor and other expenses, for example, open a community supermarket of about 50 square meters in Hangzhou. In addition to the registered capital of 6,543,800 yuan, the joining fee is about 26,500 yuan (deposit of 20,000 yuan+joining equity of 5,000 yuan+opening reserve of 654.38 yuan+0.500 yuan). In addition, taking the first purchase of 654.38 million yuan as an example, the cost of logistics and distribution is about 2,500 yuan. The total is 29,000 yuan. "Of course, Lianhua Express will provide opening training, management guidance and related services after joining, and will be free of training fees." Yang Jingli said that in addition, in order to increase the number of stores, Lianhua Express has two preferential policies this year. First, franchisees with suitable conditions have the right to pick up some of the goods after approval on the premise that the company distributes no less than 50% of the goods; Second, every six months is an assessment period. For franchisees who have completed or exceeded the company's current distribution quota, the company will return 65,438+0.5% of the total current distribution quota as a reward. The Future of Emerging Cities+Metro Economic Community Supermarket According to the contents of the document "Incentive Measures for Encouraging Community Commerce to Develop Convenience, Convenience and Chain Operation" (Hangzhou Trade Management [2008]150) jointly issued by Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Trade and Municipal Finance Bureau, the municipal finance will arrange certain funds in the commercial development funds every year to reward leisure service chain enterprises such as convenience chain in the community. A chain enterprise that implements unified procurement, unified distribution, unified accounting, unified price, unified service, unified identification, unified standardized management and operation. At the same time, if there are more than 30 convenience chain stores (including direct stores and franchise stores) in Hangzhou and meet the relevant conditions, more than 10 (including 10) will be added based on the total scale of last year. In this context, small community supermarkets have gained unprecedented development opportunities. On the one hand, with the development of cities, mature communities need to support their own business formats. On the other hand, the relatively stable commercial layout has won relatively stable development space for small supermarkets. This demand from both sides has become a stage for the growth of small supermarkets. Don't be a small shop. Then, under the situation that chain convenience stores are blooming everywhere in Hangzhou, are there any potential business opportunities? Where are the opportunities? "As far as big supermarkets are concerned, the main city is basically saturated, but for small supermarkets, there are still some opportunities to' see the needle'." Wang Yongqing suggested that some entrepreneurs planning to open small supermarkets should pay attention to some new buildings and communities outside the old city. If we focus on the long term, we can also set up points in emerging areas such as Binjiang and Xiasha in advance to seize business opportunities. For example, wu mart, which opened in Xiasha on June 5438+February, 2005, was crowded with people and had to ask security guards to keep order. After more than a year of market cultivation, the turnover of this 18000 square meter hypermarket has already kept pace with the two urban hypermarkets. As for the supermarket area, Wang Yongqing believes that it is advisable to refer to the standards of farmers' markets. "If the surrounding population reaches 1000 people, the farmers' market area is about 1000 square meters. "According to a survey by an institution in Beijing, the daily passenger flow of large supermarkets can reach about 50,000 people, and consumers have certain spending power, mostly young people aged 20-35. According to the data of Carrefour supermarket, 60% of its customers are under the age of 34, and 70% are women. When selecting a location, Wal-Mart Supermarket requires that the population within 1.5km should reach more than 654.38+million, and the permanent population within 2km should reach120,000 ~150,000. " As a small supermarket serving the convenience of the people, the best choice is an area with a large flow of people and a high concentration of community residents, such as a station or around a school. "According to Xu Haihua, vice president of Hangzhou Commercial Real Estate Association, if you want to open a community supermarket and choose a lot with a large flow of people, the risk cost of starting a business is undoubtedly lower." The subway exchange point in Hangzhou in the future is also a good place for the layout of small supermarkets. "Xu Haihua said that the planned subway stations, especially the important central stations such as Jiubao, Qiaosi, Xiasha, Binjiang and Linping along the 1 line, can be deployed in advance. Of course, the popularity of these areas has not yet risen, and entering these places will bear certain operational risks. Dr. Qian from School of Economics, Zhejiang University reminded small supermarket operators who are going to join chain brands that they must avoid big supermarkets in their layout. Because there has always been a saying in the industry that there is a' 5 km death circle' in large supermarkets, it is necessary to avoid a price war with supermarkets. "Looking back at the history of supermarket development in Hangzhou, there have indeed been similar signs." 5 km death circle is a popular saying in American retail industry. "Dr. Qian said that every time a hypermarket opens a store in the United States, it will generally create a' 5 km death circle'. Within a radius of 5 kilometers, small supermarkets and grocery stores will close down one after another. Under the pressure of close competition, everyone shouted at any cost or even at a loss. Of course, not every entrepreneur is lucky. According to the call statistics of 18 Chuangfu, the transfer frequency of community small supermarkets is quite high. Take June-August, 2009 as an example, there are about 25 pieces of transfer cooperation information of small supermarkets and small department stores. Taking small supermarkets as the starting point, it seems that there are many people who start their own businesses. Many people came and many people left. Zhao Qing is one of these people who come and go. He is from Xiaoshan. In order to take care of his family conveniently, he chose to open a supermarket with an area of about 80 square meters in a small town in Xiaoshan. The location is good, just near a large residential area, and the occupancy rate of residents is also high. Zhao Qing's community supermarket has gone through a rather embarrassing period since the store door glass was smashed during the opening promotion, and the life span of this supermarket is not long, only 8 months. " The daily turnover is sometimes only 100 yuan, but the daily operating expenses will be 200 yuan. After struggling for four months, I had to choose to close the door. "Zhao Qing said that he chose to open a small supermarket in the community. First, because the cost of this venture project is not high, the initial investment is around 400,000. Second, he has some sales experience and hopes to use it. " Maybe my original investigation was not detailed enough. I didn't expect the consumption power of the surrounding residents to be so poor. "Looking back at this road, Zhao Qing concluded that the biggest root cause may be the failure to recognize the shopping ability of customers." Supermarkets are related to opening, and their closure is also caused by normal competition, which conforms to the law of survival of the fittest in market economy. "Chen Xue, Ph.D., School of Management, Zhejiang University, believes that in a market economy, any format or business individual will inevitably go through the baptism of market competition and selection of survival of the fittest. Large supermarkets are well-off, so they can survive the competition, while small supermarkets are often in an unfavorable or passive situation. " Therefore, small supermarkets can also join large enterprises and enjoy the scale benefits given to them. Chen Xue said that in addition to joining, small supermarkets with their own brands should also avoid risks or set up consortia to reduce risks. At the same time, by improving commodity management, speeding up inventory turnover, preventing capital precipitation, strengthening management system and reforming management methods, enterprises are in an orderly development state. Some experts predict that in the next 10 year, the national community consumption will account for more than 1/3 of the total retail sales of social consumer goods, which will become a new growth point of future business. According to the data of Hangzhou Trade Bureau, there are 2,656 communities in * * * of Zhejiang Province, including * *1/community 1272 and community business outlets137,000. There are 2,656 communities with outlets137,000. It can be said that these 10 outlets may become community convenience service outlets such as community supermarkets and convenience stores in the future. According to industry insiders, generally speaking, the supermarket chain business model can only be profitable if the number of stores reaches 10. As an entrepreneur with little financial strength, "it will be a good idea to choose a good brand to join and accumulate experience with the help of the brand." Wang Yongqing, director of the Policy and Regulation Department of Hangzhou Trade Bureau, believes that joining the brand chain is a safer and less risky business model for new entrepreneurs. Looking around Hangzhou, there are many small supermarkets with chain brands in the streets, such as Keke, Yikang, Quik and Christie's. According to the staff of the Municipal Trade Bureau, Keke and Yikang. They are all based on direct development and rarely or even accept joining. Express customers are accepted to join, and there are many stores. The above is some information I transferred. I hope it helps.