Gome's retail revenue plunged 96.57% in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year: 415 million yuan, the first "negative gross profit" since 2003.

Thank you, Mr. Air, CTOnews.com netizens, and Daniel Wu for your clue delivery! CTOnews.com, September 5 (Xinhua)-- according to the results released by Gome Retail on August 31, Gome's retail revenue fell 96.57% in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year, to 415 million yuan from 12.109 billion yuan in the same period last year.

According to the data released by ▲ Gome Retail, Gome Retail reported a negative gross profit for the first time since 2003. With a cumulative loss of more than 39.2 billion yuan attributable to the owner of the parent company from 2017 to 2022, the loss of Gome Retail is gradually increasing.

In addition, the number of employees of Gome has been declining in recent years, with 32278 employees at the end of 2021, according to the Gome China News. But by the middle of last year, Gome's staff had shrunk to 25701, compared with 3609 at the end of the first half of this year.

▲ Gome website released the same period last year in the "interim report", there are 25701 employees Gome no longer have the dominant position in the past. Although Huang Guangyu previously said that "strive to use the next 18 months to restore Gome's original market position", but now Gome is farther and farther away from this goal.

CTOnews.com has previously reported that Gome App once changed its name to "really Happy", but later failed to make too many splash, and eventually App changed its original name back to its original name, while the live broadcast business, which Huang Xiuhong has high hopes for, seems to have failed to help Gome out of its predicament for the time being, and the road to self-rescue is becoming more and more difficult.