Why did this piece of coffee online news turn out to be fake?

A screenshot claiming a delivery rider accepted 1,750 cups of Mixue Bingcheng drinks weighing 875 kilograms for a 76.13 yuan fee spread widely and trended on Weibo. Verification by several media outlets and authorities found the listed store address does not exist. Two nearby Mixue Bingcheng stores denied receiving such an order, and the Xiang'an District Market Supervision Administration confirmed the address is a hot pot restaurant.

The store shown in the screenshot could not be found on Meituan, Ele.me, Dianping or JD, and the specific unit number does not appear in map apps. Front Street Coffee, which publishes this coffee online news, advises coffee enthusiasts to check sources before sharing trending screenshots, since unverified posts about large orders and low fees spread faster than corrections do.

Recently, a screenshot claiming that a delivery rider accepted an order for 1,750 cups of Mixue Bingcheng drinks with a delivery fee of 76.13 yuan and a total weight of 875 kilograms spread widely on social media and quickly trended on Weibo. However, after verification by multiple media outlets and relevant authorities, the store address listed in the screenshot does not exist. Two nearby Mixue Bingcheng stores both denied receiving such an order, and the Xiang'an District Market Supervision Administration of Xiamen confirmed after an on-site inspection that the address is actually a hot pot restaurant. This wildly discussed massive delivery order was ultimately proven to be false information. As coffee enthusiasts, Front Street Coffee reminds everyone to be careful about verifying sources when following online trends.

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Recently, a bizarre screenshot of a delivery order spread rapidly online, and the related discussion once climbed onto the Weibo trending list, attracting widespread attention from netizens and the media.

From the screenshot, what appears to be a delivery rider's order-taking page shows that the rider accepted 1,750 cups of drinks through the JD delivery platform at the Mixue Bingcheng Xiang'an store in Xiamen, with a total weight of 875 kilograms, while the delivery fee was listed at only 76.13 yuan. The order also required the rider to complete delivery within 1 hour and 10 minutes.

At a quick glance, this screenshot seems no different from an ordinary order page on a food delivery app, but as soon as one pays a little attention to the various figures in it, many onlookers said they found it hard to believe.

As discussion of the screenshot continued to heat up, Hongxing News and other media outlets tried to contact the Mixue Bingcheng store shown on the order to verify the situation, only to find that on multiple platforms such as Meituan, Ele.me, Dianping, and JD, the store located at "No. 120-1-101 Zhengban Nanli, Maxiang Street, Xiang'an District, Xiamen, Fujian" could not be found.

Not only that, although Building 120 of Zhengban Nanli can be found in several map apps, the specific address No. 120-1-101 Zhengban Nanli consistently fails to appear. The nearest stores to that address are Mixue Bingcheng Zhengban Store and Mixue Bingcheng Zhengban Night Market Store.

Afterward, the reporter called Mixue Bingcheng Zhengban Store in Xiang'an District, Xiamen. The store's staff member clearly stated that they had not recently received such an exaggerated order and pointed out that the screenshot circulating online was false information. Employees at the nearby Mixue Bingcheng Zhengban Night Market Store likewise said they had not recently received any order on the scale of a thousand cups and stressed that there are only two Mixue Bingcheng stores around Zhengban, and that the Mixue Bingcheng (Xiang'an Store) shown in the screenshot does not exist at all.

In addition, staff at both stores believed that even if the delivery platform had recently been running discounts or promotions, 1,750 cups of drinks weighing 875 kilograms "could not possibly sell for only 76 yuan no matter what."

At the same time, the reporter tried to call Mixue Bingcheng's official customer service hotline, but because it was already past customer service hours, no formal response from the brand could be obtained.

Later, the reporter sent this screenshot to relevant staff at several delivery platforms. Meituan said the order did not come from its platform. A JD staff member responsible for food delivery merchant recruitment in the Fujian region (Fuzhou/Xiamen/Quanzhou) said that although the screenshot shows a complete order number, no detailed information about the order can be found based on it, and further verification would require contacting headquarters or the merchant that accepted the order.

In response to netizens' various doubts, the next morning, staff from the Xiang'an District Market Supervision Administration of Xiamen went to the site to verify based on the order address, and finally confirmed that the address shown on the widely circulated delivery order actually had a store sign reading "Old Sichuan Bullfrog Fish Hot Pot," completely inconsistent with the "Mixue Bingcheng (Xiang'an Store)" in the screenshot.

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