"Oh my God, I have never seen such crazy people in my life!" Looking at the dense crowd of customers in front of him, Lewis wiped the sweat on his forehead.
At the peak of his small grocery store, there were less than 10 customers lining up at the door waiting to check out. He had never imagined that there would be hundreds of people lining up at the door of his store. Even the police came to maintain order for him.
"It's strange, why do you think the pocket electronic pet is sold in a grocery store? Wouldn't it be better to go to a nearby shopping mall or toy store? "Several customers who were lining up muttered with puzzled faces.
They originally went to a large shopping mall or toy store to buy a pocket electronic pet, but in the end, these stores didn't sell it.
Then they remembered that at the end of yesterday's program, Jack Orlens once said that they had placed advertisements in the local newspapers of every major city, and the advertisements listed the different sales locations in each city in detail. If they went to the local newspapers, they would be able to find the sales location.
So they ran to a nearby newspaper stand as fast as they could. After asking the owner of the newspaper stand, they bought a local newspaper of that day. Sure enough, they found the detailed address of the sales location in the newspaper, and then they followed the address to find the nearest sales location.
In fact, they were quite fast, and they were in the top 20. When others couldn't react and found these sales locations through the newspaper, there were already hundreds of people lining up.
After asking, they found out that these people actually went to a large shopping mall or toy store to buy a pocket electronic pet machine, but they all failed. However, they didn't look for the newspaper, but found that there were a lot of people lining up in this store, and then they saw the large poster at the door of the store, so they came to line up.
"I also find it strange, why is such a good thing sold in my small store?" In fact, Lewis was also at a loss. He didn't know why the other party would put such a popular thing in his small grocery store to sell, and it was the other party who took the initiative to come to his door. This was really amazing. It was as if a piece of gold fell from the sky and fell right in front of him.
What Lewis didn't know was that the Daqian family was also helpless about this matter. They also wanted to sell the pocket electronic pet machine in high-end shopping malls, toy stores, or electronic product stores, but they were not allowed to do so.
In the beginning, the salespeople recruited by Fusang's Daqian immediately contacted large shopping malls and specialty stores to sell the pocket electronic pet machine in their stores.
However, when these store owners or managers heard this request, they all rejected it. They said that the quality of their products was too low. They didn't have any brands and weren't qualified to be sold in their stores.
These salesmen tried their best to persuade them, but most of the shops rejected their requests. This made Jack Olens and the others very anxious. This was obviously abnormal.
Later, after asking around, he found out that it was Hasbro's doing.
Because at this time, Hasbro was already an absolute powerhouse in the toy industry. About 40% of the toy sales in major shopping malls and toy stores came from Hasbro, especially the popular Transformers toys.
Therefore, Hasbro sent their own people to pass a message to these stores, saying that they hoped that they could refuse to sell any products of Daqian's puzzle toys in the United States. Otherwise, Hasbro would refuse to supply to these stores.
This request was quite unreasonable, and it made those store owners quite angry. However, they didn't dare to really refuse Hasbro. After all, 40% of the sales was there. As for Daqian, it was a small company that they had never heard of, so they simply agreed.
This was also a very normal thing. In the past, Hasbro had done such things many times in order to kill their competitors. They were already used to it.
But later, they regretted it because they later found out that Daqian's puzzle toys were not a small company, but a company that had obtained the copyright of Pokemon.
In other words, it was a subsidiary company of Daqian. Therefore, the store owners could only watch as those cute Pokemon dolls ran to other stores that didn't refuse Daqian's products.
Because most of the stores refused Daqian's products, only a few stores didn't, so there were only two or three stores in each city that sold Pokemon. However, there were a large number of Pokemon players. As a result, those few stores made a lot of money, and the profits were several times that of Hasbro's toys. This made the stores that refused Daqian's products jealous.
But at this time, they still didn't dare to put Daqian's products on the shelves, because no matter how well those dolls sold, they could only fly in the sky, and the annual sales were only 100 million USD. Compared to Hasbro's annual sales of billions of USD or even tens of billions, it was still too little.
And the reason why those stores made money was that the buyers were concentrated in their stores. If they all went back on their word and let Daqian's products on the shelves, they wouldn't make much money. Instead, Hasbro's products would be removed from the shelves. Therefore, they still didn't dare to offend Hasbro. They could only comfort themselves that if those stores broke off their relationship with Hasbro, they wouldn't be able to sell Hasbro's toys for the rest of their lives. They would regret it sooner or later.
Anyway, they were going to go down this road to the end. In the face of Daqian's request to cooperate with them to sell Pokemon, they still refused.
But this time, Da Qian had invested a lot of money to promote the Pocket Electronic Pet Machine. So, this time, they couldn't just put it in a small number of shops. Da Qian had to spread the Pocket Electronic Pet Machine all over the country. They had to ensure that there was a shop selling the Pocket Electronic Pet Machine on every street in every city in the country.
Therefore, after being rejected by these serious stores, Jack Orlens decided to find another way. He did not look for a large shopping mall or a toy store. Instead, he looked for a small grocery store or a small food store on the side of the road.
Because Hasbro simply turned a blind eye to such stores, and their toys wouldn't be sold in these small stores. Therefore, these small stores had no interest with Hasbro. As long as the Daqian used their ancestral method of "supply first, pay later", they would immediately conquer the owners of these small stores. They would put the Pokemon in these small stores for sale, and then put all kinds of large posters on the outside walls. While they were at it, they would also spend some money to advertise their purchase address for a few days in the local newspapers.
For these small grocery stores and small food stores, this was undoubtedly a fortune that fell from the sky. They originally thought that it would be quite good if they could sell it for about 100 dollars a day. They never imagined that there would be a situation where hundreds of people would line up at the same time!
In short, they were rich!
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