Chapter 183 Fierce
The next day, Song Yuanchao learned about the situation in Dazhalan. To be honest, he was also surprised by such a heated scene.
He originally thought that the first batch of electronic watches and microphone mirrors would only sell for a few days no matter how good they were. However, who would have thought that they were sold out in less than a day. The entire market was simply in short supply.
It's not only the case in Yanjing, the same is true in Shanghai. Yesterday, the goods arrived in Shanghai and Yanjing at the same time and were sold out in a blink of an eye. Faced with this situation, Zhang Yong directly called Yangcheng to urge for the goods.
Song Yuanchao underestimated the ferocity of the trend and even more so the purchasing power of young people.
Whether it is an electronic watch or a microphone mirror, the price of these things is not cheap. Take the electronic watch for example, an electronic watch is nearly one-third of the average person's salary. As for the microphone mirror, it is even more expensive. The most expensive one is almost three or four months' salary, but it is the best-selling one.
This is just like the release of Apple mobile phones in later generations. In order to get one, some crazy and enthusiastic pursuers were willing to save money for several months to buy such a phone. Some people even sold one of their kidneys to get money to buy an iPhone. This situation that ordinary people can't imagine is real.
The booming orders caused Qin Zhengguo and his colleagues, who had just returned to Guangzhou, to plunge into the busy work of preparing goods without even a break as soon as they received a call urging them to deliver the goods. Fortunately, Qin Zhengguo had called his contacts in Guangzhou on the morning of New Year's Eve to prepare the goods in advance. After learning about the sales situation, Qin Zhengguo and Song Yuanchao discussed it on the phone and directly placed a large order, asking Hong Kong to ship the goods as quickly as possible to meet domestic demand.
Song Yuanchao handed over the follow-up work to Qin Zhengguo and others. Lin Daoyuan was right. He didn't need to do the details of . This was better for him.
After making all the arrangements, Song Yuanchao entered the second half of his freshman year and continued his college life.
Half a month passed in a flash, and it was March 1980. With the popularity of the TV series "The Man from Atlantis", more and more people on the market wore electronic watches and microphone glasses, and many young people were proud to be able to get these two things.
Because large quantities of electronic watches and micro-mirrors arrived in time, and as Luoyang's retail and wholesale networks were rolled out, many stores in Dashilan and even other places in Yanjing began to sell the same electronic watches and micro-mirrors, thus diverting customer flow from the Luoyang store.
On the surface, the sales in Luoyang store have declined a lot, but in fact, the shipment volume has increased significantly, and the total profit is also increasing.
Moreover, all the extra stores got their goods from Luo Yang, which gave Luo Yang more bargaining chips to control the sales channels. Moreover, this also made Luo Yang's stores no longer too conspicuous and avoided some unnecessary trouble.
One day in early March, a commercial advertisement suddenly appeared in a newspaper in Yanjing. This advertisement directly selected stills from the TV series. There were two large stills of Mike Harris and Dr. Mary. Mike Harris and Dr. Mary in the stills were dressed fashionably. The man was elegant and the woman was gorgeous, which made people yearn for it.
Below the advertisement there is a line of large characters: "Leading the trend of the new era - the same authentic imported clothing as "The Man from Atlantis"", and behind it is the address of Dashilan, which is of course the address of the store in Luoyang.
On the same day the advertisement was released, new products appeared in Luo Yang's store. In addition to the fake collars, electronic watches, and microphone mirrors, the store was filled with crazy floral shirts, denim jackets, jeans, jackets, and bell-bottom pants overnight.
When these things appeared, Dashilar instantly welcomed a sales boom. Moreover, that day happened to be a Sunday, and the number of people who rushed to the store upon hearing the news was several times more than usual. The huge crowds of people packed the entire Dashilar inside and outside, waving money in their hands and desperately squeezing into the stores, all just to buy a new piece of trendy clothing.
Even though Luo Yang and his team were well prepared, they were still unable to withstand the frenzied flow of people that day. The soldiers and guards tried desperately to keep order at the door, but many people still "broke through the siege" and rushed into the store to shop. As for the store, it was even more lively, with dozens of people crowding it like a bus during rush hour, with people so tightly packed that even the glass counter was squeezed to pieces.
Li Xiaoyun, who came to help, was frightened by this scene, even though she was usually carefree. Under Luo Yang's cover, she fled directly into the next room and locked the door, refusing to come out no matter what.
The situation of others was not much better. Dabing and Junzi saw that things were not going well so they simply ignored the door and hurried back to maintain order at the counter. After a while, the police from Dazhalan Police Station arrived to assist and thus a major disaster was avoided.
But even so, after the crowd dispersed, everyone looked at each other with helpless expressions, their clothes and pants were wrinkled, and what was even worse was that there were a few monks hiding in the crowd. Even the electronic watch on the soldier's wrist was touched by someone without him knowing it. Looking at the bare wrist, the soldier was so angry that he cursed but could do nothing.
What was thought to be a busy day was forced to close after just less than two hours. The door of the store was closed and the store was in a mess, the floor was a mess, the counter had fallen over, and broken glass was all over the floor. It was a scene of disaster.
"Has everyone left?" Hearing the noise outside gradually subside, Li Xiaoyun, who was hiding in the house, unlocked the door and poked her head out to look. When she saw that there were no outsiders in the store, Li Xiaoyun patted her chest with lingering fear and walked out.
"Fortunately, the police arrived quickly, otherwise something big would have happened today." Luo Yang said with some fear.
The scene just now was so horrifying. Facing those fanatical crowds, Luo Yang and his colleagues were almost powerless to resist. Fortunately, the police helped them. If things continued like this, they might not be able to do business anymore. Things might get out of control and cause problems.
Once this happened, it would be fine if everything in the store was snatched away, but if someone was killed, it would be a big problem. Although Luo Yang had made preparations yesterday, he never expected such a violent outcome.
"I said it was all that…what was it? Right! An advertisement! It's an advertisement. Why put up an advertisement?" The soldier was very dissatisfied and shouted, "If there wasn't this advertisement, how could so many people come? Oh my god, I almost lost my life just now. Look, I don't even know when the watch on my wrist was taken away by the Buddha..."
"How can you talk like that? Can you blame the advertisement? Besides, isn't it true that when we do business, we have more people to do good business? Now that there are more people and business is so good, you are not happy? Don't you pick up the bowl to eat and put down the chopsticks to curse? Also, you, a grown man, got your watch stolen and you still make a fuss? I say, soldier, you feel honored when your things are stolen, right? Tsk tsk, this unique personality is rare. What do you call such a person in our Shanghai? Aquexi! No! You are Awuluan!" Li Xiaoyun was immediately dissatisfied with the soldier's words. Song Yuanchao helped them to run this advertisement for free, and when the advertisement was first run, Song Yuanchao asked Luo Yang for his opinion. Luo Yang also asked everyone, but no one said anything.
But now, business is so good that people blame Song Yuanchao instead? How could Li Xiaoyun be willing to do that? She immediately fired at the soldier with her mouth like a machine gun.
"Hey, I say, have you eaten gunpowder today? You were almost fine hiding in the front, but look at us brothers, we all look like we're in trouble, and we can't even say a few words?" The soldier was not convinced and directly retorted.
"You can't say anything! If you want to blame someone, blame yourselves. If you had prepared earlier, you wouldn't have ended up in such a mess. You can't poop because the toilet has no suction?"
Who would have thought that this would really ignite Li Xiaoyun's anger. She immediately started to curse and swear at the soldier, who was speechless and didn't know how to defend himself for a moment. It was not until Luo Yang heard that his head hurt and he shouted, "Enough ," that Li Xiaoyun was able to finish her work triumphantly.
"This has nothing to do with advertising. We underestimated the power of advertising and products and were not prepared." Luo Yang said directly for fear that they would quarrel again. Li Xiaoyun was very proud after hearing this. She deliberately looked towards the soldier with a look in her eyes that said, "Look, there are still some smart people out there."
Luo Yang also comforted the soldiers: "No one can be blamed for what happened today. If anyone should be blamed, it's myself. In fact, Yuan Chao reminded me but I didn't take it seriously. I was thinking of selling electronic watches, microphones and mirrors to fix it last time, but who would have thought of the situation today..."
At this point, Luo Yang looked around with lingering fear, and sighed, "Let's not talk about anything else, let's clean up the store quickly, this won't work, Xiao Qiao, go find a few guys nearby, we'll do the wholesale directly, and let them deal with the retail later."
"Brother Yang, direct wholesale? No more retail in the future? This... the profit spread is huge." The soldier was stunned and asked quickly.
Luo Yang shook his head: "We still have to do retail, but if we are the only one doing retail, it will be too conspicuous. You have seen the situation today, what if it is the same tomorrow? Besides, is it possible for us to take over a place as big as Sijiu City? Eating alone will make people hate you."
Junzi was more flexible and nodded immediately. When they were making electronic watches and microphone mirrors, they had hired so many people who were jealous. Those who had worked with them on fake collars saw that the business was so good, how could they hold back? They came directly to the door to ask for the goods.
Fortunately, Luo Yang had prepared in advance. In addition to the first batch of products for trial, Luo Yang distributed some of the goods to them in the second batch, which immediately opened up the market. This time, Luo Yang also planned to sell the clothes himself for a few days before starting to wholesale. However, who would have thought that the popularity this time was even more uncontrollable than the last time. In this case, Luo Yang's only solution was to wholesale in advance and distribute the goods to disperse the people's strong "firepower" against these things.
