Chapter 387 Happiness is created by contrast
After dinner.
Fang Xinwu and his group strolled around the city of Dongzhi.
Before they knew it, they had walked into the supermarket of House of Plenty. If you want to understand a place, you can go to the local farmer's market to see its real side.
Since there are no farmers' markets and small supermarkets within the Homo Sapiens company, the functions of farmers' markets and small shops have been taken over by several large supermarket chains.
So just go directly to the supermarket.
As soon as you enter the supermarket, you will be greeted by cool air.
This made Mr. Zhang, who was afraid of heat, feel relieved. He fanned the air and complained to everyone, "Homo sapiens is good in every way, except that the weather is too hot. A fat person like me can't stand it!"
Li Shengkai glanced at the shopping area guide and said, "The first floor is for food. Is there anything you want to buy?"
Mr. Zhang waved his hand: "Just stroll around, you don't have to buy anything."
The first shelf area is the vegetable area.
There was a wide variety of vegetables, a large portion of which were already packaged, and there was a waiter who was specifically responsible for packing the items.
Looking at the large number of plastic boxes and plastic packaging, Li Shengkai asked in surprise: "Didn't Mr. Fang say that Southeast Asia was most seriously affected by the Tokyo fungus? Why do supermarkets still use so much plastic?"
"Because these are fast-moving consumer goods and their sales period will not exceed a week, there is naturally no need to worry about fungal corrosion." Fang Xinwu understood the key in an instant.
After the vegetable area, there is the fruit area.
It is several times larger than the vegetable area just now.
There are 15 varieties of tomatoes alone. Li Shengkai picked up a box of tomatoes with lavender lines and said, "0.3 yuan per kilogram..."
"Huhu...Why are there so many varieties of vegetables and fruits here?" Mr. Zhang asked Fang Xinwu curiously.
Fang Xinwu thought for a moment: "It should be the preservation technology and transportation technology, or production nearby for easy transportation."
In fact, his guess was correct.
The reason why there are so many varieties is mainly due to technological upgrading and local production. Among the affiliated cities of Taunggyi City, five are specialized agricultural towns that produce large quantities of vegetables and fruits.
Nowadays, many vegetable and fruit variety improvements give priority to storage and transportation resistance, which will weaken the flavor of the vegetables and fruits.
Several large agricultural groups, such as Haitian Agriculture, have adopted the principle of proximity in accordance with the requirements of their headquarters and have established vegetable and fruit production bases specifically for each urban area.
These vegetable and fruit production bases produce vegetables and fruits that cannot be transported over long distances, so that everyone can eat fresh and delicious food.
For example, many of the 15 varieties of tomatoes in front of you are already ripe before they are picked and put on the market. This can only be enjoyed around their place of origin.
Li Shengkai, who studied abroad in the Kangaroo Country, has also seen vegetables and fruits produced by local farms, but the prices are relatively high.
But these purple-striped tomatoes at 0.3 yuan per kilogram really made him feel a little overwhelmed.
Although calculated based on the indirect exchange rate, it is equivalent to about 4.8 Chinese yuan per kilogram, but this is a variety that is not resistant to transportation.
He had just seen those hard red tomatoes in the vegetable section, which cost only 0.11 yuan per kilogram.
He didn't believe it and looked at other fruits.
In fact, he was a little crazy. Comparing the price of fruits with those in tropical areas was simply asking for trouble.
Mr. Zhang noticed the change in this guy's mentality and deliberately provoked him: "Nephew, would you like some cherries?"
Seeing the box of cherries at 0.43 yuan per kilogram, Li Shengkai was immediately shocked: "Why are they so cheap? Cherries shouldn't be produced in Southeast Asia, right? How can imported cherries be so cheap?"
Fang Xinwu explained: "The foreign trade department of Zhiren will adjust the price. This kind of fruit purchased from outside is usually sold at a subsidy and will be retailed at the purchase price, which is about 3 yuan per kilogram."
"Subsidy? How much money does it cost per year?" Li Shengkai was almost numb.
Fang Xinwu casually mentioned a statistic: "According to the first quarter report of this year, Zhiren Company's foreign trade division subsidized 372 kinds of purchased agricultural products, with a total subsidy amount of 48.1 billion yuan."
"..." Li Shengkai was silent. Even though he leaned towards the West in his heart, he felt powerless in the face of such a fierce material offensive.
People who have the kind of awareness and belief that Dong Yongzhen has are ultimately a minority, and the vast majority of people are just false fanatics.
Faced with the overwhelming sugar-coated bullets from Sapiens, these fake fanatics will soon be exposed.
After all, the material foundation determines everything.
Sapiens can rely on its own industrial chain and technological advantages to artificially subsidize the price of purchased agricultural products and lower the retail price to a level similar to that of the place of origin, but other places obviously cannot do this.
How does happiness come about?
That is, you spend 50 yuan to buy a kilogram of cherries, but I only need 4.8 yuan to buy a kilogram of cherries.
Many people's sense of happiness comes from comparison.
This is also why humans are keen on comparing and showing off.
The reason why Li Shengkai was immediately defeated was that he couldn't eat such cheap cherries in Kangaroo Country or his hometown, but the employees of the Sapiens Company could enjoy low price discounts.
Then Fang Xinwu's other words shattered Li Shengkai's sense of superiority.
"Mr. Zhang, please don't take it carelessly! We don't offer discounts for this kind of subsidized product."
"What?" Mr. Zhang put down the cherries in his hand and said, "Is this thing priced according to the person?"
"Well, do you see that purple triangle symbol? Products with this symbol are purchased from outside. Only employees of Sapiens are eligible for discounts on these products. People like us who are not employees of Sapiens have to pay the original price to buy them."
Mr. Zhang took a look at the packaging box and saw that there was indeed a purple triangle symbol on it, and there was also a number 4.5 next to it, which meant that the actual retail price of the product was 4.5 gold yuan.
Li Haoyun, who had remained silent the entire time, did not give his son any guidance.
In fact, he deliberately arranged to come to the supermarket, colluding with Fang Xinwu and Mr. Zhang. His purpose was to strike a blow against his son's high-minded mentality that he had acquired from the Kangaroo Country, to make him sober up, so as to avoid squandering the family business in the future.
As for whether his son would never recover from , Li Haoyun had no choice but to give it a try.
Li Shengkai, who was hit hard, became silent during the following stroll.
But he was still unwilling to give up and kept scanning the prices of various products on the shelves.
But the more he read, the more powerless he felt to refute.
From vegetables and fruits, meat, eggs and milk to daily necessities, household appliances, skin care products, textiles and decorations , Homo sapiens's price-performance ratio crushes the whole world.
There is no market for luxury bags like LV and Chanel within the Sapiens company.
Because in the supermarket of Fengzaozhijia, there are a lot of similar products, which are only a dozen yuan.
What happiness?
This is the feeling of happiness!
Once you get used to the cost-effective products of Zhiren Company, you will develop a strong sense of dependence and become unable to extricate yourself.
The reason why most of those who have come to live in the company of Homo Sapiens choose to stay is because of this huge gap.
Once they returned to their hometown, looked at the price tags on the shelves, and then looked at their wallets, many people were spoiled by the low prices and good quality of Homo sapiens products, and could not accept the reality of high prices and low quality, and then ran back to Homo sapiens.
Even if ordinary people from Europe and America come here, they will be shocked.
Even Li Shengkai, who owns a mine at home, can hardly bear the pressure, let alone ordinary people with pitifully low incomes.
