246 Questions from the chairman of the department store
"Everyone in the audience, you have also seen that video games are a newly emerging industry, and now they have obviously developed to a large scale. Many players will be happy and sad because of a character in the game.
Needless to say, this is really interesting and worthy of attention. It seems that it is necessary for me to play the so-called video games in the future. Well, our interview has come to an end. Thank you for watching."
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In the chairman's office on the top floor of the Woodson Department Store headquarters, David stood in the center sweating coldly, and a paunchy man leaned on the boss's chair, smoking a cigar and holding the TV remote control.
In the smoke, he glanced sideways at David, who was still sweating, and asked the question he wanted to ask the most.
"Do we have this product that is popular in these small and medium-sized department stores?"
"Yes... yes." David breathed a little quickly.
"If so, why do it seem that only these small and medium-sized department stores are very popular now, but our department stores have been deserted in the past two days? I want to know what is going on."
"Well, we have similar products, and our sales results are actually very good. Our pn1 and pn2 game consoles, as well as Lierda's 2600, have sold hundreds of thousands of units, and we have also made a lot of money.
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"However, the products sold in these small department stores are not as popular."
"No, it's not." David explained hurriedly.
"This is because the game console sold there has just released a new game, and they are so enthusiastic about buying the new game because of it."
"Game? What is that?" The director frowned. He obviously didn't know much about these things.
As a director of a department store, he usually spends more time doing larger businesses, and he only cares about the results, not the process.
Originally, he was leisurely playing golf at the golf course yesterday and chatting with some government officials and fellow executives.
This is the social activity they usually do best.
However, yesterday, a few uninvited guests who rarely appeared suddenly appeared.
They are the owners of several medium-sized department stores.
It's not that these bosses don't have the qualifications to come here, but even if they come here, they will appear to be inferior to the big guys like them.
The bosses of medium-sized department stores are also very knowledgeable and will greet them in a low-key manner.
But yesterday, instead of lowering their posture to say hello, these bosses looked like they were on equal footing.
This made the chairman very puzzled.
When did these mid-sized department store people start to float again?
Are they planning to join forces to compete with large department stores?
This is worth paying attention to.
So he ordered his men to investigate the recent developments in these department stores.
That night, he learned something.
The recent profits of these small and medium-sized department stores have been very good.
If one company or two companies are doing better, that would be normal, but most of them are rapidly improving their profitability, which is very unusual.
On the other hand, looking at their department store, I took a cursory look at the report and found that there was almost no improvement.
So he immediately investigated in detail what the reason was.
As the chairman of the board, I am also a person who only focuses on results. Now I want to investigate the specific reasons, which is very rare.
Eventually he learned that these small and medium-sized department stores were all selling a product, which made them make a lot of money.
With money, they appear confident.
When he understood all this, he had only one question.
That is, does our company have the same product?
But you have to ask David, the company's business manager.
Then the scene above happened.
David was sweating coldly, never expecting that the chairman of the board would eventually find out about Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
Damn it, why is this company making more noise every time?
Obviously they have similar game products for sale, but they just can't compare with others, which is very uncomfortable.
As long as all the electronic games of Youxing Electronic Entertainment are put on display, there is no need to worry about selling them, but the game consoles they bought from Surui Electronics and Lierda can only be regarded as satisfactory.
Several large companies were unable to suppress a small emerging company in Japan. He felt that Surui Electronics and Lierda were a bit useless.
"Chairman, video games are a kind of entertainment product. Game consoles are like machines that play video tapes. Electronic games are like video tapes of movies and TV shows. Only good-looking ones are more popular."
"So why don't we have the video games that they're selling? Why don't we sell the video games that no one buys?"
"Also...it's not that no one is buying, it's just that there are not as many people buying as there..."
"David, please don't argue with me. You know me. I would never allow my men to fool me over and over again. Don't think that I can't see that you are fooling me now."
The pot-bellied chairman showed a gloomy expression.
Being fooled by his subordinates is like a younger brother treating himself like a monkey. After all, he is also a big shot who has been struggling for many years. How can he allow this kind of thing to happen?
David quickly said: "No, no, no, I don't think so, it's just..."
"I just want to ask now, why don't we sell the popular products that department stores are selling?"
"It's because we didn't get the authorization from those companies." David explained.
"Huh? A company that sells products doesn't look for department stores like us, which have more influence, but instead looks for small department stores. Isn't there something wrong?"
The chairman didn't quite understand.
When David saw that things had come to this, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and said: "They contacted us before, but we were influenced by those large companies. They threatened that if we dared to sell this company's products, they would give up the relationship with us.
A contract of cooperation.”
The chairman frowned and asked: "Who threatened?"
"There are Morgan Group, Surui Electronics, and several other relatively large electronics companies."
After hearing this, the chairman softened a bit.
This is quite a reasonable reason.
Several large companies obviously want to suppress a little brother, so in order to ensure continued cooperation with large companies, it is normal to give up cooperation with a small company.
Seeing the chairman's expression soften, David breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly said again: "Then, I can only follow their request and not cooperate with this small company. I have no choice but to do so."
"That's it." The chairman nodded slightly. David couldn't be blamed for this.
However, he still said: "Contact this small company again, explain the reasons carefully, and then sign a cooperation agreement with them."
"Chairman, the threats from those big companies..."
"Haha, of course you can listen to them when there is no benefit. It is a way of giving them face, but now, why do you listen to them? Do they really dare to give up cooperation with us? At most, they can just complain. Our department store only
He is the one who truly has the right to speak."
"Okay, okay, I understand, I will contact this company right away."
"Well, you go ahead." The chairman waved his hand and was about to send David away. This was just a small matter, and it was of no importance. It would be nice if he explained it clearly.
But at this moment, a subordinate who was the chairman's confidant quickly entered the office, took one look at David, and then came to whisper a few words in the chairman's ear.
David was about to leave at this time, but suddenly he heard a gloomy voice from behind: "David, please wait a moment."