Chapter 531: The Belle Époque of the Little Grocery Store
Oh my God, I've never seen such a crazy person in my life! Looking at the dense crowd of customers in front of him, Lewis touched the beads of sweat on his forehead.
At the peak of his small grocery store, there were less than 10 customers queuing up at the door to check out, and he never imagined in his life that there could be hundreds of people queuing up to buy groceries in front of his store, and even the police came to maintain order for him.
"It's weird, why do you think pocket electronic pets are sold in a grocery store? Isn't it good to run to a nearby mall or toy store? Several customers in the queue muttered puzzled.
They originally went to large shopping malls or toy stores to buy pocket electronic pets, but as a result, none of these stores sold them, and they were empty.
Then they remembered that at the end of yesterday's show, Jack Orlens had said that they had placed advertisements in the local newspapers in each big city, which detailed the different sales locations in each city, and they could find the sales locations by buying the local newspapers.
So they ran to the nearby newsstand as fast as they could, and after asking the newsstand owner, they bought a local newspaper of the day, and found the detailed address of the sales place on it, and then followed the address to find the nearest sales point to them.
In fact, they were quite fast, ranking in the top 20 positions, and by the time the others couldn't react and found these sales points through the newspapers, there were already hundreds of people in line.
When I asked, I found out that these people actually went to large comprehensive shopping malls or toy stores to buy pocket electronic pet machines, and they all came up empty. However, instead of looking for the newspaper, they found that there was a lot of people queuing up at the store, and then they saw a large poster in front of the store, so they came to line up.
"I wonder why such a good thing came to my little shop to sell it?" In fact, Lewis was also at a loss, and he didn't know why the other party would put such a hot thing in his small grocery store to sell, and the other party took the initiative to come to the door, which was really amazing, it was like a piece of dog's head gold dropped from heaven and happened to be smashed in front of him.
What Lewis didn't know was that in fact, this matter was also very helpless, and they also wanted to put the pocket electronic pet machine in those more high-end shopping malls and toy stores, or electronic product stores to sell, but they didn't let them put it.
At the beginning, the salesmen recruited by Fuso Daqian immediately went to contact large shopping malls and specialty stores, and wanted to put pocket electronic pet machines in their stores for sale.
However, when these store owners or managers heard this request, they all refused, saying that their products were of poor quality and had no brand, so they were not qualified to sell them in their stores.
The salesmen were talking, but most of the shops refused their request, which made Jack Orlens and them anxious at the time, which was obviously not normal.
Later, after many inquiries, I found out that this was a good thing done by Hasbro.
Because at this time, Hasbro is already an absolute powerhouse in the field of toys, and about 40% of the toy sales in major shopping malls and toy stores are from Hasbro, especially the popular Transformers toys.
As a result, Hasbro sent its own people to these stores, saying that they hoped that they would refuse to sell any of the products of the Mi Guo Daqian educational toys, otherwise Hasbro would refuse to supply these stores.
This request was quite outrageous and annoyed to the bosses, but they didn't dare to really refuse Hasbro, after all, 40% of the sales were placed there. As for Daqian, a small business that they had never heard of, so they agreed very simply.
This is also a very normal thing, Hasbro has never done such a thing in order to kill its competitors, and they are all used to it.
But later, they regretted it a little, because they later found out that this Daqian puzzle is not a small business that does not enter the stream, but a company that has obtained the Pokemon copyright toy.
In other words, they are Daqian's branches, so the owners of these stores can only watch those cute Pokemon dolls run to some other stores that have not rejected Daqian.
Because the vast majority of stores rejected Daqian, and only a small number of stores did not refuse, there were only two or three stores selling in a city, but the number of Pokemon players was huge, and as a result, those small number of stores made a lot of money, and the profits were several times that of buying Hasbro toys, so that the stores that refused Daqian before were red with jealousy.
But they still didn't dare to let Daqian's products be on the shelves at this time, because no matter how well those dolls were sold, they flew into the sky, and the annual sales of 100 million US dollars were still too small compared to Hasbro's annual sales of billions of dollars or even tens of billions.
And the reason why those stores make money is also because the buyers are concentrated in their stores, if they all turn back and let thousands of products on the shelves, then they can't actually make much money when they share it, but will make Hasbro's products off the shelves, so they still don't dare to offend Hasbro, they can only comfort themselves, those stores and Hasbro have broken off the relationship, and they can't sell Hasbro's toys for the rest of their lives, and they will regret it sooner or later.
Anyway, they went all the way to the black, and in the face of Daqian's request to cooperate in the sale of pocket electronic pet machines, they still refused.
But this time Daqian has invested a lot of money to promote the pocket electronic pet machine, so this time can not be a small fight, only in a small number of stores, Daqian must be spread across the country, to ensure that every city in the country on the road, there can be a store that sells pocket electronic pet machines.
So, after these serious stores refused, Jack Orlens decided to find another way, and instead of looking for a large mall or a toy store, he went to a small grocery store on the side of the road, or a small food store.
Because such a store Hasbro is blind at all, their toys will not be sold in these small shops, so these small shops and Hasbro have no interests, as long as Daqian sacrificed the ancestral routine of supply first and pay later, he immediately conquered the owners of these small shops, put pocket electronic pet machines, put them in these small shops for sale, and then put all kinds of large posters on the outside walls, and by the way, spend some small money on the local newspapers, A few days of advertising for a purchase address is pretty much the same.
For these small grocery stores and small food stores, this is undoubtedly a fortune from heaven, they originally thought that when the time comes, it will be quite good to be able to sell for about 100 dollars a day, and they have never imagined that there will be hundreds of people queuing up at the same time!
All in all, they got rich!