For each newly opened direct-operated ordinary convenience store, the subsidy is 20,000 yuan, and for each newly opened direct-operated fresh convenience store, the subsidy is 50,000 yuan. The cumulative reward amount of each convenience store enterprise in Fuzhou is not more than 1 million yuan per year. …..
In order to encourage powerful commercial enterprises to set up chain convenience stores in Fuzhou, improve commercial facilities and facilitate residents’ lives, a few days ago, Fuzhou issued "Several Support Measures for Promoting the Development of Convenience Store Enterprises in Fuzhou" (hereinafter referred to as "Measures"), giving financial support to convenience store enterprises in opening new stores, retail innovation and opening up markets, and actively supporting the development of convenience store chain enterprises in terms of optimizing investment environment and simplifying business processes.
Each newly opened direct-operated ordinary convenience store will be subsidized by 20,000 yuan.
The convenience store enterprises mentioned in the Measures refer to chain convenience store enterprises that meet the standards and specifications for the establishment of chain convenience stores and distribution centers in Fuzhou. Specific needs meet the following conditions at the same time:
1.Comply with the standards and specifications for the establishment of chain convenience stores and distribution centers in Fuzhou (for Trial Implementation);
2.Registered and declared in Fuzhou, with independent legal personality, unified accounting, and consolidated payment of enterprise income tax in Fuzhou;
3.Chain enterprises with more than 30 chain stores in this city, with unified name, unified logo, unified store decoration style, unified procurement, unified distribution and unified management;
4.Ordinary convenience stores (not selling fresh food) have a single store area of 60-150 square meters (subject to the enterprise housing lease contract or self-owned property right certificate, the lease period is not less than 3 years). Fresh convenience stores (selling fresh food) have a single store area of 100-350 square meters (subject to the enterprise housing lease contract or self-owned property right certificate, the lease period is not less than 3 years), of which the fresh business area is more than 50 square meters;
5.At least three (including three) convenience services have been carried out (mainly including catering services, self-service equipment services, collection agency services, life information services, express access services, commodity pre-purchase services, public toilet services, etc.);
6.Internet plus, Internet of Things, big data, new technologies and other retail innovations have been carried out.
Huang Wumin, a researcher of Fuzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that the support measures introduced this time were supported from the aspects of new store opening subsidies, retail innovation incentives, and market development support. All the support policies are only enjoyed by the headquarters of Fuzhou chain convenience store enterprises that meet the recognition conditions, and the subordinate institutions and stores do not enjoy the relevant support and reward policies.
New store opening subsidy
For Fuzhou convenience store enterprises that built more than 10 stores that year, they were given a one-time subsidy from their head office. Among them, each newly opened direct-operated ordinary convenience store will be subsidized by 20,000 yuan, and each newly opened ordinary convenience store will be subsidized by 2,000 yuan; Each newly opened direct-operated fresh convenience store will be subsidized by 50,000 yuan, and each newly opened direct-operated fresh convenience store will be subsidized by 5,000 yuan (the original convenience store will not be subsidized if it is renovated or the original franchise store is converted into a direct-operated convenience store).
Retail innovation reward
(1) The management information systems (mainly including: face recognition system, big data analysis system, mobile payment system, intelligent APP system, etc.) developed by the existing convenience store enterprises in the same year, each with an investment of more than 90,000 yuan, and fully promoted and used in the chain convenience stores of the company (the coverage rate is over 70%), have passed the joint acceptance by the municipal and district commerce bureaus, and each management information system construction will be rewarded with 30,000 yuan.
(2) The existing convenience store enterprises added "convenience+service" such as catering service, self-service equipment service, collection agency service, life information service, express access service, commodity pre-order service, public toilet service, WIFI service, etc., each item with an investment of more than 60,000 yuan, which was fully promoted and used in the chain convenience stores of the company (the coverage rate reached more than 70%), and passed the joint acceptance of Fuzhou Municipal and District Commerce Bureaus, and each additional item was added.
(3) For the existing self-built distribution centers of convenience store enterprises (including self-built by purchasing land and self-built by renting houses), if they meet the Standard Specification for the Construction of Chain Convenience Stores and Distribution Centers in Fuzhou, they will be awarded 300,000 yuan upon joint acceptance by the municipal and district commercial bureaus.
(4) Chain convenience store enterprises that carry out innovative retail construction or transformation shall submit the construction plan to the Municipal and District Commerce Bureaus for examination and approval in advance before carrying out the construction or transformation, and shall strictly follow the construction or transformation plan after approval.
Market development support
For convenience store enterprises in Fuzhou who participated in professional exhibitions at home and abroad determined by Fuzhou Commercial Department (subject to the official notice issued by the commercial circulation department), and carried out vertical supply chain procurement to promote the sales of banyan goods, the booth fee will be subsidized (each enterprise will subsidize no more than 10 total booths at home and abroad each year, and each booth fee will not exceed 5,000 yuan). This policy cannot be superimposed with other booth subsidy policies introduced by Fuzhou).
Each Fuzhou convenience store enterprise has a maximum annual reward of no more than 1 million yuan.
Support convenience stores to set up convenient medicine cabinets or self-service medicine vending machines on a pilot basis.
In addition, the Measures also involve specific policies to support the development of convenience stores.
Support convenience stores to carry convenience services
Support Fuzhou convenience stores to handle convenience services, and rationally arrange convenience service self-service acceptance terminals to conditional chain convenience stores.
Pilot setting up convenient medicine cabinets or self-service medicine vending machines
Support Fuzhou pharmaceutical retail chain enterprises to cooperate with chain convenience store enterprises with 24-hour service capacity and more stores (more than 30), and set up independent Class B OTC drugs, medical device counters or self-service drug vending machines in convenience stores. Drugs and medical devices sold at counters shall be uniformly distributed by Fuzhou drug retail chain enterprises or delivered by the headquarters of 24-hour convenience store chain enterprises to the headquarters of drug retail chain enterprises (no transit or inventory). The counter is only allowed to sell Class B over-the-counter drugs and Class II medical devices commonly used at home (commonly used Class II medical devices include: thermometer, electronic sphygmomanometer, medical absorbent cotton, medical absorbent gauze, condom, medical mask, blood glucose meter, blood glucose test paper, early pregnancy test paper and ovulation test paper).
Strengthen personnel training
Arrange a certain amount of funds every year as the talent training fund for convenience stores in Fuzhou, which is mainly used for the business department to carry out the retail innovation business training of convenience stores.
Convenient access and simplified process
The recognized convenience store enterprises and the headquarters of convenience store enterprises can choose to go to the window of Fuzhou Municipal Market Supervision Bureau to handle business licenses for food, medicines and medical devices. Relevant application materials and handling procedures will be further simplified. For convenience stores that only apply for sales in prepackaged foods (excluding frozen food), the subject can be exempted from on-site inspection. Fuzhou pharmaceutical retail chain enterprises set up medical device counters or automatic drug vending machines in convenience stores, which shall be uniformly filed by the pharmaceutical retail chain enterprises in the market supervision departments where the pharmaceutical retail chain enterprises are located.