The newcomers. Image: Rednote\/\u8309\u8389\u5976\u767d, CHAGEE\u9738\u738b\u8336\u59ec<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIndustry observers on Weibo were quick to turn the nostalgia thread into an autopsy. Common diagnoses included chaotic franchise management, rising prices, weak product R&D, and tone-deaf rebranding. As one viral comment put it, \u201cA bamboo cup can hold milk tea, but not long-term loyalty.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For China\u2019s once-crowded milk tea sector, the hot search serves as both an obituary and a warning. The era of queuing two hours for a sugar fix is long gone. What remains, as the online discussion suggests, is a more rational, health-driven market, and a reminder that in Chinese tea retail, traffic fades fast, but product strength endures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once the poster children of the China milk tea boom, brands like The Alley (\u9e7f\u89d2\u5df7), Gong Cha (\u8d21\u8336), and Shuyi Grass Jelly (\u4e66\u4ea6\u70e7\u4ed9\u8349) are now being memorialised on social media as relics of a sugar-coated past. This week, the Weibo hashtag #Milk tea brands that were once viral but now no one drinks# (#\u66fe\u7ecf\u7206\u706b\u73b0\u5728\u51e0\u4e4e\u6ca1\u4eba\u559d\u7684\u5976\u8336#) climbed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,69,28],"class_list":["post-48363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-industries-digital-society","tag-industries-food-beverage","tag-platforms-weibo","has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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