Although you can buy a complete range of food in German supermarkets, Germans still like to go to the vegetable market. The reporter has lived in Germany for many years and discovered that the German vegetable market has many "software and hardware" that the Chinese vegetable market lacks.

　　 German open-air vegetable markets are mostly located in city squares and parks. As soon as he walked into the vegetable market, the reporter could always see the colorful ceiling. The stall owners were wearing aprons, and there was no shouting, but they could see sincere smiling faces. The floor of the vegetable market is always spotless and there is no rubbish. The air is mixed with the aroma of vegetables, fruits and roasted meat.

　　 Fruits and vegetables are placed in plastic baskets. In order to ensure hygiene, in addition to the sorting trash cans at each stall, the stall owners will also pay to contact the environmental protection company to clean them up, so as to really do everything. Moreover, there is no scene of killing chickens and ducks alive in the vegetable market. Pork, chicken, etc. are placed in the air-conditioned glass cabinet of the vegetable cart, and the fish are placed in ice cubes. The vegetable carts are all refitted from trucks or trailers. As long as the stall owner presses the button, the surrounding car surface will turn up and become the eaves. The car body becomes a small shop, which does not take up too much space. Come and go freely. Many stalls will also provide free additional services such as recipes and door-to-door delivery.

　　 For the sake of environmental protection, the stall owner does not provide plastic bags, instead paper bags. However, Germans will consciously bring environmental protection bags to shop.

　　The customers who come to the vegetable market are mainly elderly people and housewives in the morning, and even young mothers pushing strollers, and in the evening they are mainly office workers. After closing the stall, the stall owner packed up the items, put them in a special car, did a good job of sanitation, and went away. A vegetable market also disappeared without a trace.

　　 In addition to the open-air vegetable market, each city in Germany also retains several covered vegetable markets. According to several stall owners, if you want to operate here, you must first apply to the market management department of the city hall, and then sign a series of contracts, such as health regulations, environmental protection clauses, and sales regulations. The stall owner also has to conduct hygiene qualification tests, such as how to keep fresh fruits and vegetables, and refrigerate meat. After opening business, the stall owner automatically becomes a member of the owner's association of the vegetable market in the neighborhood. The association holds regular monthly meetings to convey documents from government management departments and so on. The homeowners association also elects a president and spokesperson each year to negotiate with the city management department and communicate with the outside world on behalf of the association. If a stall owner violates the relevant regulations of the owner’s association and fails to dispose of the garbage in front of his stall in time, causing environmental pollution, the owner’s association may vote to disqualify him and send him out of the vegetable market.