摘要
团购曾经是一个多么激动人心的行业!前面有快速成长的Groupon领跑，中间有各路VC争先恐后地注入资金，众多创业企业激情奋战，各种关于本地服务业电子商务的传说，多少上市公司的财富梦想，在这个冬天里，变得扑朔迷离。团购真的不行了吗？这个被资本迅速催生出来的行业，还有哪些可能的变数？
Ren Chunlei,CEO of groupon.cn,has recently become the first group purchase head contained by vendors,staff and media.The company owes tens of millions of renminbi to vendors and millions to its employees.Some insiders even suggested the company sell its domain name to the US Groupon for survival. Meanwhile,its rival gaopeng.com is no better. Some employees live broadcast the mass layoff inside the company:computers were forcibly recovered,and labor contracts were unilaterally terminated without any compensation. Xu Maodong,CEO of 55tuan.com,said hello on his microblog but soon received criticizes as the company is also reported to take on a new round of layoff.Some branches even cut down 90%of employees;some only kept three or four staffs. Group purchase was once considered a promising industry just years ago.The US leader Groupon grew fast,various venture capitals flooded in,and countless star-ups jumped in the industry with passion.Now,these legends of local e-commerce and dreams of company listing seemed so uncertain in this winter. Will group purchase die? Or is there any possible changes? Let's wait and see.
