The snack store is very busy and opened in Songjiang University Town, it's not an accident.
Staying at home most of the time, it was rare to venture out during the Qingming holiday in 2026. I wandered into Wenhui Road in Songjiang University Town, and my first thought wasn’t about the scenery, but about the shops.
Good sales are nothing new; they’ve sprung up everywhere in Shanghai over the years. What really caught me off guard was seeing 零食很忙 (Snack Busy) here. I used to see this brand more often back in my hometown and always thought it was a bit further from Shanghai. Turns out, one street, Wenhui Road, completely shattered that stereotype of mine.
My current assessment is quite clear: the fact that a store like 零食很忙 can open in Songjiang isn’t because Shanghai has suddenly “degraded” to a lower tier. Rather, it’s because Songjiang was never just the peripheral edge of Shanghai as many people imagine. If you treat this area as a suburb, it actually possesses sufficient foot traffic, a sufficiently young customer base, and enough dwell time; if you view it as merely a dormitory town, it is backed by the historical foundation of Songjiang Prefecture, the innovative resources of the university town, and its new positioning as the southwest gateway to Shanghai.