During the height of the pandemic, a unique kind of online shopping became one of the hottest trends in China’s tech industry. But now, China's community group-buying platforms are vanishing one by one. In March, Alibaba’s grocery group-buying arm, Taocaicai, closed down as well. Today, Pinduoduo, the Chinese sister company of Temu, is the only major internet platform still offering grocery group-buying across the nation. At the start of the 2020s, community group-buying was seen as an innovative solution to the last-mile delivery challenges associated with grocery delivery.