Chu Tianyao was busy observing other places when he suddenly heard a voice behind him.
He turned around and saw that a child of about seven or eight years old was standing there asking.
The little boy was standing at the ticket gate. The ticket inspector glanced at the little boy and asked.
"Do you have a ticket?"
"I...I didn't..."
"You can't go in without a ticket."
The ticket inspector finished speaking impatiently, and the child picked up someone else's discarded ticket from the ground and handed it over.
"Hey?
You little brat are deliberately looking for trouble, aren't you?"
The ticket inspector went up and slapped him, and the little boy burst into tears.
The cry soon attracted the little boy's parents, who seemed to be a weak woman in plain clothes who usually swallowed her anger.
"You are the child's parent, right?
He was disruptive here and almost destroyed our equipment!"
"It's all good if I don't let you lose money. Take your children and get out!"
The ticket inspector was obviously watching people order food, and immediately confused the right and wrong and drove the poor mother and son away.
Chu Tianyao saw all this, and then Long Si came to the front.
"Mr. Chu, the situation in Menglong Cinema has been basically figured out."
"Okay, let's go."
Chu Tianyao nodded and turned to leave, returning to the store with Long Si.
After returning, Chu Tianyao and Long Si checked the data and found that the data collected by the two were almost the same.
"It seems that watching movies is still a high-end consumption behavior in Hong Kong City."
"If we can turn this behavior into civilian consumption, no theater can compete with us!"
Chu Tianyao and Long Si immediately began to draw up the preliminary price of VCD, which was Chu Tianyao's biggest weapon.
He believes that when his very affordable price is launched, not only the owners of Menglong Cinema, but also the owners of other major theaters will be dumbfounded.
While Chu Tianyao was having a heated discussion with Long Si and other employees, he heard sounds from outside.
"Uncle, can I come in and take a look?"
Chu Tianyao felt that the voice was somewhat familiar, so he quickly turned around.
Sure enough, the child who was beaten just now was standing at the door, and his mother stood beside him with a look of helplessness.
"I'm sorry, the kid was just joking and causing trouble for you."
"I'm leaving now!"
As if to protect her child, the mother took the child away after saying this.
But this kid was staring straight into the store, as if he was possessed and refused to leave.
Chu Tianyao looked up again, and there were also a group of potential customers standing behind the child.
Everyone's attitude is no different from a few days ago. Everyone is here to watch, but no one dares to come in.
So Chu Tianyao immediately smiled back.
"Of course you can come in, everyone can come in and take a look! It's free of charge!"
Chu Tianyao personally held the child's hand and walked into the store.
The child's mother was relieved when she heard that no money was required.
With this precedent, many people who stopped to watch came in one after another.
They are all residents of this neighborhood. Every time they pass by the mall, they are very curious about this store.
Adults are all afraid of face, even if they just ask, no one is willing to try.
The world of a child is relatively simple. He dares to try everything just relying on his inner desire.
Chu Tianyao then became the instructor, telling the child step by step how to use the VCD player.
For children, it seems like a door to a new world has opened.
The mother of the child was watching very happily, after all, the child was everything to her.
The business in the store suddenly became popular, which made Dong Zhijie upstairs nervous.
Although he didn't come down to see it in person, he could take advantage of the convenience upstairs to see everything at a glance.
"what happened?
Aren't those people just watching a few days ago?
Why is everyone in now!"
If so many people start consuming, the news will soon spread to surrounding streets and communities.
This is undoubtedly stepping on Menglong Cinema's head to rob people, and Dong Zhijie naturally cannot agree to such a thing.
He couldn't show up in person, so he called an unfamiliar-looking employee over.
"Xiao Liu, come here, change your clothes immediately, and go downstairs to look around the store."
"You just need to go and watch, and then report to me everything you see and hear!"
"Understood manager."
Xiao Liu nodded, changed his clothes and went straight downstairs.
After he went down, he was gradually infected by the atmosphere in the store.
Especially the first time I watched a VCD player at such a close distance and realized such a convenient movie watching process.
Both Xiao Liu and everyone else who came in were amazed.
If Xiao Liu's cell phone hadn't rang, he might have been immersed in it for a while longer.
"Xiao Liu, what's the matter with you?
It’s been half an hour, why haven’t you come back yet?”
Xiao Liu was stunned for a moment. Half an hour has passed?
He didn't feel it at all.
So Xiao Liu hurried back to the door of the rooftop cinema and reported what he saw and heard to Dong Zhijie.
"Okay, you go and do your work first."
After listening, Dong Zhijie waved his hands, feeling a little complicated in his heart.
He could tell from Xiao Liu's expression that the VCD technology was indeed very attractive.
Even his own employees almost fell victim to it, which is enough to illustrate its powerful charm.
What makes Dong Zhijie temporarily relieved is that currently vcd is only in the free stage, so the threat is relatively not that big.
"It's better to wait for a while before reporting to the boss."
Dong Zhijie shuddered when he recalled Gan Wenshan's attitude towards him last time.
But Dong Zhijie never expected that his hesitation this time caused the entire Menglong Cinema to miss the best opportunity to deal with the enemy.
The kid who got beaten played in the store for a long time, and reluctantly left until his mother reminded him.
"Go back to Xiaopeng quickly. It would be rude to pester uncle again."
Xiaopeng nodded and returned to his mother. Chu Tianyao was about to wave goodbye to her.
Suddenly Xiaopeng ran over again and hugged Chu Tianyao's leg.
"Xiaopeng, what are you doing?"
"Mom, how about we buy one and take it home?"
Just now in the store, Chu Tianyao had taken the opportunity to set a preliminary price list.
The rental price of each disc ranges from about two yuan to five yuan, and the purchase price is equivalent to the price of a movie ticket.
The advantage of Chu Tianyao and the others is that they can only go to the movie once.
And buying the disc back is equivalent to having the right to play the movie permanently.
But for children like Xiaopeng, the price of CDs is not low.
In addition, the bare metal price of each VCD drive is around 3,000 yuan.
Xiaopeng is really intimidated, so no matter how unreasonably he makes trouble, his mother will never agree.
Seeing Xiaopeng getting more and more violent, Xiaopeng's mother had no choice but to raise her hand again.
When the slap was about to fall, a figure suddenly stood in front of Xiaopeng.
"Boss, you..."
When Xiaopeng's mother saw that she had slapped Chu Tianyao, she panicked and apologized quickly.
"It's okay to hit me, but if you hit your children again, they won't have confidence in themselves in the future."
Hearing this, Xiaopeng's mother instantly recalled the beating her son had received on the roof of the building.
She suddenly realized that as a parent, she was not as caring about her children as Chu Tianyao, and she felt a little guilty inside.
"Xiaopeng, mom apologizes to you, but no matter what you say, you can't afford this CD player today."
"How about we buy it next time?"
While Xiaopeng and his mother were discussing, Chu Tianyao also noticed many people in ordinary clothes gradually walking out.
This made Chu Tianyao realize that his so-called people-friendly movies were not truly people-friendly at all.
So Chu Tianyao immediately announced.
"Don't worry, the disc players will also have rental prices, and they will be put on the shelves together with the rental discs."
"I guarantee that every one of you will see the cheapest movie!"
Chu Tianyao unconsciously found the best advertising slogan for himself.
After hearing this, a stone hanging in everyone's heart finally fell to the ground.
They can continue to stay here with confidence.
Chu Tianyao quickly launched a series of rental packages based on market conditions.
These rental packages range from expensive to cheap, and are basically open to people from all walks of life.
After Chu Tianyao launched these rental packages, almost all the discs and players in the store were sold out in an instant.
"Don't worry, we are a VCD experience store here. Our main focus is an experience service."
"So we don't have enough stock this time, and we can only satisfy these dozen people at the moment."
"But don't worry, this kind of problem will definitely not happen again in the future."
Chu Tianyao managed to maintain order at the scene with great difficulty.
Stores in shopping malls can be different from stores on the street. Once the order is not correct and chaos occurs, you may lose the qualification to open a store here in the future.
"Let's go, Xiaopeng, you heard it too, the boss has no goods here."
"We'll come back next time."
When Xiaopeng heard this, his face was covered with sweat from excitement.
Although Xiaopeng is young, he knows everything.
When Xiaopeng went out to buy groceries, he looked at the wallet where his mother paid, and there was at most dozens of dollars in it.
But now the cheapest rental package in the store costs 50 yuan.
After buying these, Xiaopeng and her mother will have problems eating in the future.
Just when Xiaopeng was about to leave reluctantly, Chu Tianyao suddenly appeared in front of him carrying a bag.
"This is……"
"My uncle gave this to you, take it."
Xiaopeng reached out and took it, opened it, and found a complete set of VCD equipment inside.
According to the price in the package, even renting it would cost at least 150 yuan!
So Xiaopeng withdrew his hand like an electric shock.
"This... this is too expensive, I can't afford it..."
"You don't need to buy it or rent it. I give it to you."
"If you don't have enough discs in the future, you can come and get them. Only you have the power to swipe your face!"
After Chu Tianyao finished speaking, Xiaopeng happily reached out to take it, took his mother's hand and turned to leave.
Many years later, when Xiaopeng grew up to be one of Hong Kong's leading directors, he often recalled this past event.
"Mr. Chu, it seems that our preliminary test was successful. What should we do next?"
"Of course we're striking while the iron is hot!"
"Hurry up and continue to expand the scale of operations here. Tomorrow I will see advertisements for my own stores throughout the mall!"
Chu Tianyao handed over this part of the work to Long Si, and he hurriedly contacted Zeng Qizhi.