1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 315 Core Competitiveness

"After the opening of New York's Crystal Palace mall, in addition to conventional products, Chinese businessmen's products are also given priority to supply to Crystal Palace. Can Crystal Palace quickly open up the gap with Stewart's Marble Palace mall and become a giant in New York's retail industry by possessing oriental, high-quality and cheap commodities? ?”

As a family member of the retail industry, Van Darze has his own understanding of the retail industry. In addition to shopping experience and after-sales service, the core competitiveness of stores, or even shopping malls, lies in high-quality and low-cost commodities.

As long as the quality of the products sold is good enough and the price is cheap enough, even if the service quality is slightly worse, there will still be customers paying the bill. This is Fan Daze's personal experience.

Stewart, the largest retail giant in the United States, knows this well. He integrates the cheapest sources of goods and high-quality merchants in New York.

Therefore, even though the service quality of Stewart Mall has declined significantly compared to when it first opened in 1848, New Yorkers still choose to shop at Stewart Mall as long as they have enough time.

Before the opening of the Crystal Palace, the Marble Palace was still the largest and most luxurious shopping mall in New York, even in the United States, with the most abundant products in the United States.

Shopping in the Marble Palace is not only a face-saving experience, but it is also a visual enjoyment just to wander around and feast your eyes on the products on the shelves.

Liang Yao had this kind of mentality when he was a child. He often took his parents to the big shopping mall for an afternoon on weekends. In the end, he only bought a bottle of Wangzai milk, and finally left the shopping mall to go home satisfied after sucking the milk.

"No." Liang Yao gave Fan Daze a very clear reply, "The core competitiveness of the Crystal Palace shopping mall lies in high-end and affordable industrial products, not these traditional products."

Owning the monopoly rights of Chinese products can certainly give his shopping mall a certain advantage in the short term, but in the long run, if he wants to make the shopping mall bigger and stronger and become the largest retailer in the United States, it still depends on industrial products. .

"Sewing machine?" Fan Daze's mind turned fairly quickly, and he quickly thought of a sewing machine.

"Yes, but sewing machines alone are not enough. Sewing machines are high-end durable goods, and a family can only buy one or two at most in a lifetime. To retain customers, we need a daily necessities that customers use every day, and this daily necessities , only we have it." Liang Yao said.

"There are many daily necessities that are used every day, but only we have them. I really can't think of what they are."

After thinking for a while, Fan Daze shook his head and said.

"Think again, I have sent you a sample of this thing." Liang Yao gave Fan Daze a hint.

"Let me think about it again." Fan Daze scratched his chin back and forth several times, recalling the things Liang Yao had given him, and then stroked his forehead suddenly, "kerosene!"

"Yes, kerosene." Liang Yao nodded in satisfaction.

As a lighting fuel, this thing is just needed, more than 50 New Yorkers, almost everyone needs to use it, and this thing is still a daily necessities, currently only Liang Yao has the ability to mass-produce kerosene.

Liang Yao relied on gold to go from nothing to a multi-millionaire, but he still relied on oil to make the leap from a multi-millionaire to a billionaire.

Of course, it is also possible to rely on railways, but it takes more time to grow into a billionaire by relying on railways.

In addition to kerosene, with the current chemical technology he has mastered, he can also extract vaseline. This kind of petrolatum extracted from petroleum can be said to be a dimensionality reduction blow to the current cosmetics and skin care products industry.

Skin care products and cosmetics in this era are mainly extracted from animal fats and vegetable oils, and their extraction cost and efficiency are uncompetitive when compared with the petrochemical industry that does not pay attention to martial arts.

As the largest vote base in the United States, New York State is the focus of competition between the Whig Party and the Democratic Party in this general election. Both of them are determined to win 35 votes in New York State.

Those who win New York State win the world. Fillmore and Pierce, the two Whig and Democratic candidates, happened to take the train to New York to win votes.

New York City was also bustling with the election.

A large number of Pierce supporters even rushed to New York from New Hampshire to cheer for Pierce.

Because New Hampshire is Pierce's hometown, this state has not had a president before, and now a presidential candidate has finally appeared in this state, and they all have great expectations for Pierce.

If Pierce wins the election, he will become the first president of New Hampshire and be the pride of the entire New Hampshire state.

Soon, the speeches of the two sides turned into a debate of fire and water.

Unlike the TV debates of later generations, the media industry in this era is still underdeveloped, and the main positions of public opinion on both sides are newspapers.

Liang Yao supported Fillmore, no matter in private or public occasions, Liang Yao did not deliberately avoid his position and attitude.

He represents the interests of California, and supporting Fillmore's re-election is in the interests of California.

The "New York Evening Post" controlled by Liang Yao naturally became his mouthpiece, building momentum for Fillmore and confronting the traditional New York publication "New York Post".

The two presidential candidates even personally published articles in two publications, refuting and attacking each other.

However, this kind of fighting each other in paper publications was obviously not exciting enough. In the end, the two candidates decided to hold a live debate in front of the New York Municipal Building to fight on the spot.

The live debate between the two presidential candidates in New York is without a doubt the biggest melon of the year in New York City.

Many New Yorkers even moved their stools early and waited for the debate to start in front of the New York City Hall.

Liang Yao was also very interested in the debate between the two presidential candidates.

This is much more interesting than later generations watching the presidential candidate debates on TV across the screen.

There are many similarities in the upbringings of the two presidential candidates.

Fillmore's background was sharecroppers, Pierce's was that of farmers.

Both passed the American bar exam, became lawyers, and then entered American politics.

The luck of both of them is also very good. Fillmore, who had no hope of the presidency, unexpectedly became the president because of the sudden death of the former president.

Of course, if anyone has better luck, it must be Pierce's better luck.

Pierce married the daughter of the president of Bowdoin University in Maine when he was [-] years old. He avoided decades of detours and directly achieved a class transition. He jumped from an ordinary farm boy in New Hampshire to an upper class one of the.

However, this was just the beginning of Pierce's life. With connections and luck, Pierce entered the Senate only three years later, at the age of 33, becoming the youngest senator in the history of the United States. MP.

(End of this chapter)