280: Section 280

In the latest data released by Penguin Waimai, their market share in the food delivery market has reached around 40%.

As for Meituan, it has fallen to 35%.

And Ele.me is the lowest, at around 25%.

Due to the existence of Penguin Big Cafeteria, Penguin Waimai's current daily active users have also reached 40 million.

The upper limit for daily active users in the food delivery sector is basically around 100 million, not much more.

And after Penguin Waimai announced its latest daily active users,

there were also many voices on major social platforms congratulating Penguin Waimai.

"Congratulations, congratulations, it's really not easy."

"Giving up the group-buying sector and focusing all efforts on the food delivery sector in 2018 was indeed a good choice. Is this a case of 'cutting off an arm to save the body'?

"Penguin Waimai's decision should be the best decision Penguin has made recently. Giving up the group-buying battlefield where it directly competed with Meituan, turning to the food delivery sector, and developing the online cafeteria, that's commendable."

"Recently, I've been ordering food almost every day from the cafeteria. After all, each order averages only ten yuan, sometimes even a few yuan, and includes several dishes. The discounts are indeed too great."

"Everyone, don't celebrate too early. Currently, Penguin Waimai's user base is all due to the discounts from Penguin Big Cafeteria. After all, no one can refuse such large-scale discounts. The specific situation will only be known after three days."

Not long after Penguin Waimai changed its name,

because the remaining group-buying users within the software were indeed too few,

Penguin Waimai officially shut down the group-buying function in the software a week ago.

From that moment on, this software, just like its name, became a dedicated food delivery software, no longer involved in the group-buying sector.

At that time, many people had already anticipated Penguin's decision.

After all, Meituan's market share in the group-buying sector had long been far ahead, with no other group-buying software able to even come close. It was only a matter of time before Penguin cut its tail.

But when Penguin internally

officially announced a complete abandonment of the group-buying market,

many people still couldn't help but sigh.

After all, this time, both Penguin and Ali Group ultimately chose the food delivery sector, and neither competed directly with Meituan in the group-buying sector for too long, only able to avoid its sharp edge and find another way.

This kind of

group that even Penguin Group and Ali Group dare not compete with directly, is probably only Wang Mo's Junzi Group.

It's probably the first time that both Pony Ma and Jack Ma have been forced to avoid its sharp edge.

And in the past twenty days,

other contenders in the Thousand Group Battle have basically found their respective homes.

Most of the software and websites did not last until the end.

The remaining software has basically been acquired and merged, with not many left.

At this time, the Thousand Group Battle,

apart from some small, unique group-buying and food delivery software, such as Ctrip Hand in Hand, still surviving and remaining on a small scale, other contenders have basically disappeared.

And among these,

Dianping is an anomaly.

Because the track it initially chose was somewhat special, many people initially looked down on this software, thinking it had no development potential.

However,

when Dianping was acquired by Meituan and Meituan's group-buying system was integrated into it,

Dianping's advantages gradually spread.

During this period, Junzi Group also gave this software enormous exposure, causing its user numbers to greatly increase.

Currently, Dianping's estimated market value has far exceeded the 2 billion USD Meituan initially paid to acquire it, directly reaching around 5 billion USD.

And Wang Mo knows

that this number is still far from Dianping's upper limit.

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At the same time,

with Penguin Waimai announcing that it would stop discounts in three days,

the attention Penguin Waimai received also reached an extremely exaggerated level.

Many other internet practitioners wanted to know how many users Penguin Big Cafeteria could retain for Penguin Waimai after the massive, almost free, discount activities ended.

At the same time,

because the discounts were about to end,

many food delivery users also started to order frantically in these last few days, preparing to enjoy Penguin Big Cafeteria with huge discounts for the last time.

So in these last three days,

Penguin Waimai's daily active users continued to surge crazily.

After all, although it would still be possible to use Penguin Waimai's Red Envelope coupons to discount Penguin Big Cafeteria's consumption later, the price would still be too much higher than the current promotional price.

Many people had the thought of

getting a few more free meals.

So on the third day,

which was the last day of Penguin Big Cafeteria's discount activities,

Penguin Waimai's daily active user count

had reached 45 million!

An increase of 5 million from three days ago.

To enjoy one last discounted meal from Penguin Big Cafeteria, many users of other food delivery software also flocked over, which is why Penguin Waimai's daily active users could increase by 5 million in just three days.

At this time,

Penguin Waimai's daily active user count also stayed at the 45 million level.

This number

is also the highest record Penguin Waimai has achieved so far.

What happens next for Penguin Waimai will depend on how many people continue to use Penguin Waimai out of habit tomorrow.

At this time,

almost everyone's attention

was focused on Penguin Waimai.

Time also passed quite uneventfully, directly arriving at the next day.

Starting from that morning,

countless Penguin Waimai employees had their eyes fixed on the real-time user order numbers, hoping that today's figures wouldn't be too bad.

In fact, internally at Penguin, expectations had already been set very low.

After all, the number of daily active users after such an event ends is bound to decrease.

So, in Pony Ma's view, as long as Penguin Waimai could maintain 30 million daily active users on this day, then Penguin Waimai would be able to firmly establish itself in the food delivery sector.

Wang Mo's words from back then, that this feature would definitely fail, would also be completely proven wrong.

And time

quickly officially arrived before noon.

Chapter 205: Plummeting User Numbers, Panicked Penguin Internal!

Inside Penguin Group.

In the Penguin Waimai department hall.

At this time, many employees in the department were looking at a large screen in the center.

Because on this screen, the number of Penguin Waimai user orders for today could be displayed in real-time.

Normally, there wasn't such a large screen, and many employees couldn't know Penguin Waimai's real-time user numbers immediately.

But because today was a very critical point,

the department employees still moved a large screen here, hoping that everyone would pay attention to this information.

"It's eleven o'clock."

Looking at his watch,

Zheng Haidi couldn't help but take a deep breath.

He is currently the head of the Penguin Waimai department.