Are you hungry? Is it legal for merchants to withdraw from the American group and force merchants to choose one from the other
On November 21, according to chinabusiness.com, some netizens posted on the Chinese business forum and reported that his restaurant was forcibly offline by the "hungry" platform because they didn't listen to the suggestions of the "hungry" staff to get it off the shelf from the "meituan". According to users, it opened a restaurant in Dongda village, high tech Zone, Xi'an. In addition to the hall food, it also provided takeout services on the two platforms of hungry Yao and meituan. However, the store was forcibly closed by hungry Yao during a noon meal peak. Before that, hungry Yao called to ask him to quit meituan, but they didn't take it seriously.
The user said that when he was hungry, the person in charge of Modong large area once said on the phone that if he did not quit meituan, he would take measures, and the offline of the store from the platform was their so-called measure.
Huashang.com reported that the reporter learned from the relevant staff in Shaanxi that the store of the merchant on the hungry platform has been restored to the online. As for why this situation was caused, the staff explained that the person in charge of Dongda came to the post at the beginning of this month and didn't know much about the situation. There may be some problems in communication.
However, at present, seven stores in the east large area have been asked to get off the meituan, of which five have returned. The US delegation said that they were already collecting evidence and preparing to protect their rights through legal channels.
It is a commonplace to choose one of the two e-commerce platforms. There are countless related events when searching for relevant news on search engines, and the regulatory authorities have also punished them, but the role is really limited. On March 20, 2019, the market supervision and Administration Bureau of Tongjiang County, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province imposed a fine of up to 250000 yuan on the party who forced meituan takeout merchants to "choose one from two" for suspected misleading and cheating and forced users to modify, close and unload network products or services legally provided by other operators, and "ordered to stop illegal acts".
The e-commerce law, which began to be tried out in January this year, also clearly stipulates that operators of e-commerce platforms shall not use service agreements, transaction rules, technology and other means to impose unreasonable restrictions or additional unreasonable conditions on the transactions, transaction prices and transactions with other operators of operators in the platform, or charge unreasonable fees from operators in the platform.