One month after an online train-ticket sales network started in Jingong Supermarket, one of the biggest supermarket chains in Tianjin, over 100,000 passengers have purchased their tickets in the supermarket.
Tianjin Railway Station provided instruction to this new way of buying tickets. Officials from the station said that they intend to change the process of “station-ticket-train” and to guarantee the authenticity of tickets sold in the Jingong Supermarket.
Later, the number of points-of-sale will increase from 50 to 100. To make sure Tianjin citizens can get tickets in five minutes from home, the station and the supermarket have started large-scale research to collect suggestions for location and services of ticket sales.