Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 401 Advanced Customization
After Duan Yun chatted with Qian Deqiang for a while, he drove back.

When passing through the city on the way home, Duan Yun went to the shopping mall to buy two bottles of Moutai and a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes. Then he went to the clothing store and bought a gray scarf and two pieces of fashionable gauze with red peony stamped on it. Towels are the most expensive one.

Different from being a guest at Cheng Qingyan's house in the past, this time it is related to his relationship with Cheng Qingyan, so Duan Yun can't go there empty-handed, but Cheng Qingyan's parents don't necessarily accept things that are too expensive, so they buy such high-end tobacco, alcohol and popular clothes decoration is the most suitable.

After buying things, Duan Yun glanced at his watch and found that it was just 03:30 in the afternoon, which was still early for dinner, and Cheng Qingyan's family must have not left work, so Duan Yun went to Youfang Lane first.

Duan Yun has been busy with the work of the labor service company during this time, and has not visited the store for a while, but he has not relaxed the management of the stall here.

Now Duan Yun has two apprentices as assistants, Dajun is responsible for assisting him in the factory, and Erhu runs errands for Duan Yun to the workshop every day to arrange work reconciliation, and report to Duan Yun before returning to get off work , Both brothers have their own division of labor.

Some time ago, when Duan Yun was dancing in the civil defense, he met several young workers who came to "take refuge" with him. They were basically in the same workshop as Duan Yun at the beginning, so they knew a little bit about it, so Duan Yun decided to send these people to him. Collect them all, let Erhu lead them to the workshop, and Cao Dong Cui Lin will train these people, starting with assembling the antenna.

In the past two months, Duan Yun's business has been doing very smoothly, with at least 2 yuan of income per month. The sales of antennas have dropped somewhat, but the sales of speakers have started to rise in a straight line. Last Sunday's At that time, more than a dozen large speakers were sold in one go, and Cao Dong was so happy that he didn't fall asleep all night.

In fact, after entering [-], the domestic consumption level seemed to increase overnight. With the rise of the "new three big items", the consumption level of many citizens rose from the previous upper limit of [-] yuan to [-] yuan overnight. In particular, the demand for big-ticket electrical appliances is soaring, and there is even a rush to buy household appliances in many big cities.

The main reason for this situation is that in 83, it was already the fifth year of reform and opening up, the domestic economy was recovering day by day and the national over-efficiency was increasing, and there was an overall shortage of materials (including consumer goods and raw materials for production). The distribution channels in the hands of the state are still inefficient and rigid, which eventually led to the first large-scale panic buying wave in China.

This situation reached its peak at the end of the 80s, especially when the dual-track price system and inflation were implemented in China. The prices of products in shopping malls in many big cities changed every day. The scene was extremely chaotic.

There used to be such a thing, a refrigerator factory located in the north used a car to pull a batch of refrigerators to sell in the south, but the car only drove less than [-] miles from the factory, and the refrigerators on the car were sold out along the way , It is impossible to wait for the transportation to reach the destination, and the person who got the news has already 'cut off' halfway.

At the Spring Festival Evening, Jiang Kun and Xu Wenhua even made up a special cross talk to ridicule this incident,

"The second aunt in the neighborhood kept me from going crazy with a loud voice - the price of non-staple food will increase in two days!" Lao Ji was anxious, poured vinegar into a tub; soy sauce, filled two water tanks; monosodium glutamate, Bought two drawers..."

This is the line from the cross talk "Anxious" by Jiang Kun and Tang Jiezhong at the Spring Festival Gala in 1989. It vividly and exaggeratedly tells the story of the protagonist Lao Ji's experience in the 1988 panic buying trend in China.

Duan Yun's audio equipment started to sell well, which is actually due to many factors. On the one hand, it is because of the panic buying boom that has begun across the country. Daxing City is the number one big city in the country, and it is also a resource-based city. The average consumption power is not what ordinary small cities can achieve. In addition, the quality and sound effects of the audio equipment produced by Duan Yun Workshop are really good, plus the praise and rumors of those radio enthusiasts and audio enthusiasts, so they already have a certain reputation.

Moreover, the purchase of electrical appliances these days needs to be purchased with a ticket, and Duan Yun's speakers can be bought with money, so it is just because of the above factors that Duan Yun's audio is selling well.

"Brother Duan is here." Seeing Duan Yun's 212 stop at the door, Cao Dong came out to greet him immediately.

"You are a good boss." Seeing Cao Dong's new clothes, shiny leather shoes, and a standard parted hair, he said with a smile, obviously with pomade.

"Brother Duan is the boss, I'm just working with you..." Cao Dong said with a smile.

"Aren't you busy today?" Seeing that there were no customers in the store, Duan Yun asked casually.

"There are not many people on this street at ordinary times, but there are many people on weekend nights and Sundays. Usually, the main thing is to install antennas at home." Cao Dong said.

"En." Duan Yun nodded and asked, "Where are the new brothers?"

"Brother Erhu brought six newcomers this time, and they all arranged to work in the factory area and workshops in the village. They are all newcomers. For the time being, the good job of door-to-door installation is to give priority to the old people on our side, and the newcomers. Just earn some salary first..." Cao Dong said.

"It's right for you to do this." Duan Yun nodded, and continued: "But occasionally I still have to give these newcomers some lucrative jobs. After all, they also defected to me. I have to make them earn more than the wages in the factory. High talent, if you eat meat, you should at least give them some soup to drink, but you can’t earn more than Cui Linleizi and the others. You also need to have a relationship, do you understand me when I say that?"

"Understood, Brother Duan is more thoughtful." Cao Dong nodded and said.

"The other thing is that you can communicate with Master Jing later, and our speakers can be customized for high-end in the future."

"High-end customization?" Cao Dong was startled when he heard this.

"It is to customize the speaker equipment according to the customer's requirements. For example, what kind of wood, what color, and what shape the customer needs for the speaker shell can be customized." Duan Yun pondered for a while, and then said: "Our audio equipment has no brand, although the quality is not good. The problem is that the sound effect is good, but it is incomparable with imported foreign brand speakers. Some people still like to look at the brand when selling things, so we have to give full play to our strengths. Big manufacturers can’t make customized speakers. We can do it, of course, the price can be. Set it higher, and you usually have to listen to the opinions of customers more, and tell me after summarizing them, our products must be continuously improved, so as not to fall behind..."

"Okay, do what you say, Brother Duan!" Cao Dong replied.

Cao Dong admires Duan Yun from the bottom of his heart. In his opinion, Duan Yun is a genius, both technically and commercially, so he will seriously implement Duan Yun's arrangements.

(End of this chapter)