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You walk into a convenience store in China to buy a bottle of water. At the back of the store there\u2019s a black board where people have been writing messages to each other. Some are funny. Some are tired. Some are quietly moving. That\u2019s the idea behind China\u2019s latest viral micro-trend: convenience store literature (\u4fbf\u5229\u5e97\u6587\u5b66), and Alipay (\u652f\u4ed8\u5b9d) is behind it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trend became viral in Alipay partnered with well-known writer Liu Zhenyun (\u5218\u9707\u4e91). In Meiyijia (\u7f8e\u5b9c\u4f73) stores, Alipay set up a Convenience Store Literature Corner (\u4fbf\u5229\u5e97\u6587\u5b66\u89d2) and invited customers to write on the board. Lui kicked it off with a line from his new book Salty Jokes <\/em>(\u54b8\u7684\u73a9\u7b11): \u2018Everyone walking on the street \u2013 you\u2019ve all worked hard.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once that first line went up, the rest was the internet doing what it does best: ordinary people joined in. <\/strong>Students, kids, delivery drivers, shoppers \u2013 everyone added their own words, turning a tiny corner of the store into a shared public moment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Alipay turns user wishes into interactive campaigns\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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This is where Alipay\u2019s style comes in. the company has a habit of taking something people already enjoy doing \u2013 like making wishes, sharing blessings, or playing along with a holiday ritual \u2013 and turning it into a campaign people can participate int.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best-known example is their Chinese New Year Five Blessings (\u96c6\u4e94\u798f) campaign<\/a>, where users collect digital Fu<\/em> cards and share them with friends. It\u2019s becoming a yearly ritual at huge scale. Alipay has been quoted as saying the programme has attracted 900 million participants since its inception ten years ago.<\/a> The point is simple: Alipay doesn\u2019t just want you to pay. It wants you to play along.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alipay has also been at this with other in-store moments. When a viral Family Mart (\u5168\u5bb6) spread online, Alipay partnered up with family mart to turn the trend into an offline activation linked to Alipay\u2019s tap feature. The activation involved cup sleeves and playful rituals around clinking drinks \u2013 basically turning the video\u2019s meme qualities into something you could actually go and do.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alipay convenience store literature: People shaping brand story\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Put these pieces together and you get a loop that keeps repeating: people comment, Alipay responds, users share, more people join in, more new ideas appear.<\/strong> In this arrangement both brand and consumer meet in the middle. The public wants something, and the brand delivers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alipay then benefit because they can tie these viral moments back to their product features as they did with the tap feature at Family Mart. In that case, the action is positioned as not just paying, but joining in. When product isn\u2019t directly involved, Alipay still meaningfully put themselves in front of consumers right before the time of payment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alipay: convenience store literature \u2013 the big picture <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Convenience store literature is small simple and emotionally direct, and that\u2019s exactly why it works. It takes the most ordinary \u2013 perhaps even mundane \u2013 setting in Chinese urban life and gives people permission to leave something human behind.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Alipay the bigger story is how it keeps building campaigns that feel like they come from the public, not a boardroom. The brand\u2019s best activations aren\u2019t shouting at consumers. They\u2019re simply giving them a reason to participate and making sure that Alipay is the platform that lies beneath it all.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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