Chapter 428 (1/2)
I had a rest in the hotel all afternoon.
In the evening, Li Dong said to Sun Tao, ”I'll go to the stores of the times. Although I've heard of the times, I don't know much about their business model and store size.”
Sun Tao smelled the speech and nodded: ”OK, I'll accompany you later.”
He came to southern Jiangsu for more than a month. He was idle at other times except for negotiation time. Naturally, he would not stay in the hotel all day.
These days, he almost turns Sunan.
The store address and scale of the times, as well as the general business situation have done a certain degree of bottom.
They agreed that they didn't drink when they had dinner.
After eating a little, Li Dong and several other people started to go to the nearest time store. TongZhou is the base of the times, and there are not a few stores of the times.
Sun Tao introduced as he walked: ”TongZhou is Fang Keng's hometown. Over the years, Fang brothers have invested a lot in Tongzhou, and philanthropy has been in full swing. It is said that the times will be sold, and many people in Tongzhou are reluctant to part with it.”
Li Dong said: ”this will not have an impact on our next business?”
”It should not be. It's just a normal merger and acquisition, not a foreign acquisition.”
Sun Tao's words are on the point. Li Dong remembers that after Lotte's acquisition in 2009, it caused a lot of people's resistance.
At that time, Wumart's top management also told the media that another national famous brand had come to an end in order to vent their anger.
Because of this, Lotte almost lost money in the early days of its takeover.
In addition, the serious loss of middle and high-level leaders has also had a great impact on Lotte's entry into the domestic market.
While they were talking, the first time supermarket arrived.
On summer evenings, many people go shopping, and the times is dominated by hypermarkets. The time supermarket that Li Dong went to happened to be a large shopping center.
The shopping center is full of men and women who come out to hang out, and their popularity is very good.
Not to mention anything else, just looking at the popularity here, Li Dong thinks that the business of the supermarket will not be bad. If it is really going to be bad, it shows that there is something wrong with the managers.
Opening a shopping center in this area, if not for the early arrival of the times, it would not be possible to get such a good place.
They didn't stay in the square for a long time and went straight into the supermarket.
As soon as he entered the supermarket, Li Dong frowned. He didn't imagine the overcrowding and the noisy atmosphere.
Compared with the outside, it's like two worlds.
The door was bustling and bustling, but inside it was cold and quiet, with customers in twos and threes, and there were few people standing in line at the cashier's desk.
A look at this situation, Li Dong immediately frowned: ”how to return a responsibility?”
Sun Tao's face was also a little grim. He thought about it and said, ”maybe it's because of the acquisition, the staff's mood is a little unstable, plus the encirclement and suppression of several supermarkets in Suguo, so the business is a little poor.”
Li Dong can understand that people are unstable.
But when it comes to Su Guo's encirclement and suppression, Li Dong doubts, ”what does this have to do with Su Guo?”
Sun Tao had no choice but to say: ”in the past two years, Suguo has become more and more domineering. In order to seize the market, they play the wolf pack tactics to the extreme. Whether it's foreign retail enterprises or local retail enterprises, Suguo is fighting hard. Less than 200 meters outside the door is a Suguo supermarket. The price there is a little cheaper than here, and the business of the times has been robbed a lot. ”
Li Dong hums: ”the surname Ma is really overbearing! Are people surnamed Ma such cattle these days
Speaking of him and a few surnamed Ma also have some relations, distant PP and QQ are peers, chat software market, PP users are almost robbed by QQ.
In the e-commerce market, Ali's is not a good one. Although it is not as good as it will be a few years later, there is no place for the squeezed domestic e-commerce market.
These two are even, did not expect to provoke a surname horse now.
Su Guo's Ma Jialiang is not weak. This guy's ability is really strong, even stronger than Chen Lang in the internal system of China Resources.
In fact, Li Dong was greatly influenced by Ma Jialiang.
The most obvious point is that both of them are quite independent and like to eat alone.
Li Dong's strategy of squeezing other supermarkets in Jiangbei was almost the same as that of Ma Jia Liang Yiqu. At that time, Li Dong also learned from Su Guo.
It's a great way to beat your opponent.
But when he met this kind of dog skin plaster, Li Dong had a headache.
With a light sigh of relief, Li Dong said, ”don't worry about Suguo. When I take over the era and stabilize the situation, he will look good!”
There are two reasons why Suguo is so strong and tough. First, Ma Jialiang has a stable position in Suguo. Even if he is at a loss, Suguo and China resources are left to do whatever he wants.
Second, local enterprises, who have accumulated local contacts and popularity in southern Jiangsu over the years, have laid the foundation for him.
When competing with other enterprises, other enterprises are afraid of losing money, and the board of directors restricts them.For a long time, others could not bear the burden, and the high-level people sent from the lower level could not bear such a great pressure, and finally they had no choice but to retreat.
But these two points are nothing for Li Dong.
As a private enterprise, Li Dong has an absolute say in the distance. No one can refute what he says.
The second point is not a big problem. The times have been based in southern Jiangsu for many years, and their contacts and fame are not much weaker than those of Suguo.
On the one hand, it is the influence of M & A that makes people feel unstable.
On the other hand, the main energy of the Fang brothers is not focused on this side. The Zhaofeng group of the fangs is also developing well in Hong Kong. The investment environment there is more relaxed than that in the mainland. The main energy of the fangs is put in there.
Big boss has no energy to manage, middle and high-level have no mind to manage, which is the main reason for the decline of the times.
We should know that in 2003, the annual sales volume of the times has entered the top 30 of the domestic chain industry.
However, after a few years, except that year, the sales growth of these years is far less than that of other enterprises. Is the competitiveness weak?