All the "Starbucks instant coffee" you buy in the supermarket is fake! All of it!

Source: Information Times WeChat Official Account

According to conscience,

This is really not a headline party.

Starbucks VIA coffee (instant coffee)

Currently only in

Starbucks stores and Starbucks Tmall official flagship store

There is something to sell.

We do not cooperate with supermarkets to sell it .

If you can buy it in the supermarket,

It is basically certain that 99% of them are fake!

Yesterday, Jiangsu TV reported that some consumers found problems with "Starbucks VIA Coffee" in several well-known supermarkets in Nanjing. The report said that the Starbucks instant latte three-in-one coffee sold in the supermarkets involved was priced at 39.8 yuan per box and 46.8 yuan per box respectively, and the distributor was Guangzhou Baiyi Food Trading Co., Ltd.

In a well-known supermarket in Nanjing,

A consumer saw a package of "Starbucks VIA Coffee" with a problem

In another supermarket,

Consumers also discovered that dealers are

Guangzhou Baiyi Food Trading Co., Ltd.

The same Starbucks instant coffee,

However, the price is 46.8 yuan.

According to the relevant person in charge of Starbucks China

Starbucks VIA series products (including instant latte coffee)

No domestic manufacturer was commissioned.

All are imported goods.

The distributor is Xingyuan (Shanghai) Trading Co., Ltd.

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Starbucks.

This series of products currently

Only available in Starbucks stores and Starbucks Tmall official flagship store.

For the "Starbucks instant coffee" sold in supermarkets,

Officials have been unable to determine its origin.

The reporter noted that

The price of this product in Starbucks official flagship store is

40 Yuan/box .

The "copycat version" from Guangzhou Baiyi,

Not only the products sold in Starbucks stores,

The printing style, product packaging, etc. are almost the same.

(Note that in the picture above, the knockoff coffee is misspelled as caffee)

The "copycat version" of Guangzhou Baiyi is also affixed with anti-counterfeiting labels.

They really put a lot of effort into deceiving consumers.

You are so brave!

What makes people even more frightened is that

This kind of fake product actually appears in well-known supermarkets under the guise of being legitimate.

Guangzhou: No boxed “copycat” products have been seen yet, bottled products are sold legally

The reporter visited nearly ten large supermarkets, convenience stores and imported supermarkets including Guangzhou CR Vanguard, AEON Supermarket, ParknShop Taste, and Ole' Boutique Supermarket, and found that only bottled ready-to-drink products were on sale, and the above-mentioned products involved were not found .

For supermarkets and convenience stores

Starbucks cup bottled products,

Starbucks China responded

Bottled ready-to-drink products

It is sold in all major regular supermarkets and convenience stores.

Be careful when buying online!

The reporter searched for "Starbucks VIA Coffee" as a keyword on multiple e-commerce platforms and found that many merchants online were selling this series of products, with prices ranging from more than 20 yuan to nearly 100 yuan.

The reporter saw in an online store on JD.com that the importer and distributor of the "Starbucks Coffee VIA American Version No-Cooking Instant Black Coffee Powder" sold there was Guangxi Qinzhou Free Trade Zone Haiwei Xiefeng Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd.

However, according to the response from Starbucks China, the current designated distributor of this series of products is Starbucks (Shanghai) Trading Co. , Ltd. Consumers are requested to purchase through formal channels!

The police have busted a fake coffee production den in Guangzhou

In May 2018, Wuxi police intervened to investigate a case of counterfeit Starbucks products, and the counterfeit goods were produced in Guangzhou.

On January 4, 2019, the police arrested the suspect in a residential building in Guangzhou. The police seized a large number of counterfeit Starbucks instant coffee that was about to be shipped to other places. The manufacturer behind these counterfeit coffees was marked as Guangzhou Baiyi.

The on-site production environment was dirty and messy, there were no sanitary protection measures at the packaging site, and the source of the coffee powder was unclear.

Since the end of 2017, this group of people has illegally earned more than 10 million yuan. At present, the relevant suspects have been approved for arrest by the procuratorate.

There are many versions of Starbucks' counterfeit coffee

A quick search on the Internet will reveal that there are many versions of Starbucks' counterfeit coffee, which is really eye-opening. For example, this:

Starbucks only has "VIA instant coffee". No matter what flavor it is, there will be a "VIA" logo. This is Starbucks' only instant coffee drink.

The following ones are definitely fake. Moreover, Starbucks' VIA coffee is imported, which means that the original packaging only has English words, and those with Chinese words are definitely fake.

There is also this:

If you see these fake coffees again,

Don't hesitate,

Report them!