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Therefore, as the two core formats in the new community retail ecosystem, the CGB platform and community nanostore exhibit both competitive and complementary characteristics. Aiming at the community retail market composed of the CGB platform and the community nanostore, this study constructed a Hotelling game model to portray the competition and cooperation between these two channels and explored the impacts of different operational strategies on the equilibrium decisions and optimal profits of community retail market participants through comparative analysis. The research revealed that when retailers adopt the non-cooperation strategy, the community nanostore will occupy a larger market share, and the spillover effect between channels brought by the cooperation strategy is the main factor influencing retailers\u2019 operation strategy. 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