How a Calamity Necromancer Retires

“Are you late today?”

At the words of Kyungsoo’s mother, a friend of the neighborhood, Chanyoung’s mother nodded and said,

“I was ordering something because I needed it.”

“Internet?”

“huh.”

Internet shopping is now favored by even women.

And once addicted to this internet shopping, women couldn’t get out of the convenience.

Chanyoung’s mother is one of those people, and she did all of her frozen food and other miscellaneous items online.

“Did you order it as a formie?”

At those words, Chanyoung’s mother said with a puzzled expression.

“Forme? What is it. I only use bucks?”

“Don’t you know form? Is this a popular site these days?”

“okay?”

“The price is cheap and delivery is fast. They said they would give you a coupon, so I tried it and it was really good.”

Kyungsoo’s mother continues to praise Formie like that.

“Certainly, the theory is different. Delivering goods with skeletons?”

“Seron? Is the formi a seron?”

“huh.”

“okay? It’s troublesome…”

Thanks to the energy sales booth, Chan-young’s mother has become one of the fans of public speaking, as her household life has gotten a little better.

But online shopping is different.

“no way. I’m not going to move it though.”

“why?”

“What is that, you have to sign up and do authentication, it’s complicated. how do i do that Bugs also asked his son to sign up and entered the password only, so he is barely using it.”

Although she has adapted to the Internet quite a bit now, as a knowledgeable housewife, signing up for a new site is inevitably daunting.

“You can’t ask again. I did too.”

“it’s okay. While I was getting used to Bugs, I kept asking questions about things I didn’t know, and how many times I was annoyed by my son. Why do you ask the same thing again, don’t see the consent check below, blah blah blah. Ugh. Going through that mess again?”

Then, Kyungsoo’s mother, who praised Formie, said.

“okay? Formie throws out the trash instead, but you’re just going to use Bugs?”

“… what are you talking about now? Are you taking out the trash?”

“If you sign up as a Forme member, the skeleton will bring you things and then pick up all the trash in front of the house. Thanks to you, are you completely free from garbage? You don’t have to pile up garbage at home, and you don’t have to come and go every time, how nice it is.”

Chanyoung’s mother, who was interested in those words, said.

“Tell me in more detail.”

Chanyoung’s mother was shocked when she heard about Formie’s skeleton delivery and garbage collection service.

“Then, when you need to take out the trash, you just have to order it, right?”

“That is what I mean. Skeleton Delivery arrives in half a day after you place an order, so while you’re doing other things, you bring things and take out trash?”

“Oh my, oh my.”

It’s something you have to buy anyway, but it’s cheap, and even throws away the trash in the middle.

Chanyoung’s mother clapped her hands and said.

“Because it’s also Seron. God, they even care about the garbage.”

“right? So, Chanyoung’s mother, quickly change to Formie.”

“I tried not to move it because I noticed my son, but I can’t stand it.”

Chanyoung’s mother, who lifted her phone like that, called Chanyoung.

– Yes, Mom.

“Chanyeong-ah, where are you?”

– On my way home after school.

Chanyoung’s mother said in a kind voice.

“I have a favor to ask of you. Can you do it?”

-What?

“I think I need to sign up for some internet site.”

-also?!

Chanyoung said in a tired voice.

-Even if mom tells me, she’ll forget about it and keep asking!

At those words, Chanyoung’s mother said with a firm expression.

“This son of a b*tch fed and put him to bed, so why are you so riotous with just one of them?”

– It’s not like that, it’s frustrating. ha. So what?

“Mom is wearing Bucks. But I heard Formie is so good. So I’m going to switch to Formie.”

Then Chanyoung let out a long sigh and said.

-Mom, can’t we just use the old one? It took a while to get used to Bugs.

“Do something. huh? Instead, mom will make something delicious for you.”

-Bona mana, like last time, they’re going to call and stir-fry all month long.

Chan-young’s mother eventually gets angry at Chan-young’s constant grumbling.

“Hey child! If mom asks you to do something, you can just do it. Why are you talking so much?! How many times have you been kind enough to ask me to take out the trash on the way to school! uh?!”

– No, why is garbage here?

“Why are you here! Formi throws out the trash, so that’s right!”

Chanyoung, who was silent at those words, spoke.

-What are you talking about?

“therefore······.”

When Chanyoung’s mother told her about Formie, Chanyoung said,

-Really? throw it away instead?

“okay. Let mom live a little more comfortably. huh?”

-Then if you do that, will I not have to throw away trash on the way to school?

“of course! Do you think I like me and let you and Dad hear trash?”

Chanyoung then said in an urgent voice.

-I can’t stand that. Mom, wait. I’ll go right now! Sign up right away and let me know!

*

The concrete layer is smashed.

at a high speed too.

I said with a bright smile.

“yes. If you move it once, it will be thrown away instead of trash for the rest of your life, but who will refuse?”

Naturally, what made all of this possible was the garbage sorting service introduced this time.

Food and general waste are put in bags, plastics, cans, and recyclable waste such as vinyl are put together in one place, and Skeleton takes care of everything else.

Even in areas that are not serviced because there is no distribution center, they are crying out for the service to be introduced quickly.

Of course, the process was not all smooth.

If you leave the garbage at the designated place in front of the door, it will be collected. Since the skeleton with only two hands can’t collect it because the small garbage is literally piled up, the people who ask the truth why you don’t collect it, ask them to recycle general garbage together. The guys who put it, etc., I really saw the end of humanity.

So, this time we introduced a new collection box with a handle.

If you put a box designed to prevent smell from leaking out in front of your house, you only put garbage up to the allowed capacity of the box, and when you collect the full garbage box, the empty box brought by the skeleton is put back in its place.

The box collected in this way was brought to a nearby junk shop affiliated with Seron, and the skeletons threw away general garbage and food separately and sorted and disposed of the recycling on the spot.

In addition, general garbage and food waste must be put in a bag and thrown away, and if this is violated, collection will be refused.

“By the way, surprisingly, recycling makes money, doesn’t it?”

However, in the process, unexpectedly, recycling waste is disposed of, and although it is not large, it generates quite a good profit.

“It is a recycling business. If you do this well, you might be able to make money unexpectedly, right?”

Let’s think about it later when we have time.

“Are sales going well?”

At my words, President Formi nodded vigorously and said,

“Fantastic.”

“Fantastic?”

“Isn’t garbage always thrown out? In addition, we set the allowable amount, so people are ordering things periodically.”

“oh! I guess.”

It’s not like ordering all at once, but ordering things from time to time when you have a chance to deal with the accumulated garbage.

“Thanks to that, the price per customer is increasing. Oh, the unit price is the cost you pay for each customer on the formie.”

So you’re saying customers are spending more money on formies?

to get service.

“Excellent.”

“Anyway, people who have adapted to the garbage collection service once will not be able to leave easily even if Formi raises the price. It’s such an incredible service. If we build a warehouse like that, expand our service area and continuously expand our customers…”

Formi president said with an ecstatic expression.

“It would be possible to take away the Bucks’ No. 1 spot. Maybe they really push everyone out and Formie will take over all of Korea.”

“I’m going to say it again just in case. I’m using the Formie name now, but will you change it later when the popularity rises a bit?”

“I know. I’m just overwhelmed with the thought that the company I created might rise to number one.”

okay.

I nodded and said.

“great. Let’s keep going, until we’ve eaten them all.”

*

Formy grew at a crazy speed, literally absorbing customers around it every time it opened a distribution center one by one.

Naturally, all the customers that Formie attracted were customers of other companies, so the damage to the existing Internet commerce companies was enormous.

In particular, small and medium-sized businesses like Formie, who were barely surviving, raised their white flags one by one as their losses grew like a snowball due to the acceleration of the concrete floor.

Some of the small and medium-sized companies with white flags came to Seron and proposed a reverse takeover, and I accepted their takeover offer and absorbed their logistics warehouse, forming Formie.

Of course, the blows of the top 3 companies were not easy.

Fortunately, Bugs managed to keep its market share thanks to a low-priced offensive comparable to Formie by attracting huge investments as the No.

Then, the structure of Internet commerce companies was completely reorganized.

“The 2nd and 3rd ranks ally?”

“yes. They say they trade stocks with each other.”

Exchanging stocks means that it will operate like a real company.

“In that case, we can share a lot of things from the warehouse to minimize logistics costs, so we can put out an urgent fire right away.”

Obviously, the economy of scale is the key to this Internet commerce business, so that would be the most efficient way for the second and third place to be beaten by Formie and Bugs.

2nd and 3rd placed in an alliance with the Bucks, who are struggling to keep the 1st place, and the decline in market share.

And even Formie, which began to follow closely by absorbing small and medium-sized companies with enormous financial power.

“What is the share of each?”

“The second and third places are united and they are first with 38 percent. Then 30 percent of the Bucks. And our formiga…”

The president of Formi said with a smile.

“It’s third at 20 percent.”

20% market share achieved in just a few months after acquiring Formi.

Although I poured a lot of money into it, it was worth the investment.

That means 1 in 5 people who order things online use Formi.

I said with a bright smile.

“Then, it’s actually Ipajeon now.”

Obviously, the union is the first in terms of share right now.

But that’s just the desperate struggle of those who are going down.

No matter how much they share everything and reduce logistics costs, they cannot compete with Bugs, which introduced a robot system, and Formie, which uses a skeleton.

In other words, that share is just a water muscle for show.

And those watery muscles will sooner or later be torn apart by Bugs and Formie.

“Let’s just keep going like we are now.”

I did everything a skeleton could do.

The only thing left now is the chicken game of who gets out first.

And I’m sure the final winner is Formy.

There is not a single thing lacking in terms of financial power, labor power, and formi compared to other companies.

“All right.”

Just as he was about to finish his report, Formi’s cell phone rings.

When Formi president noticed, I raised my hand and said,

“Looks like an important call. Get it.”

“Yes, then.”

President Formi, who received my permission and lifted his cell phone.

However, President Formie’s complexion gradually hardens.

“···Really? okay.”

After the phone call, the president of Formi looked at me and said.

“President, this is bad news.”

“Bad news?”

“The national courier union issued an official statement saying that Formie was taking away the courier job.”

*

The reason I started this business was because of a news article about people suffering from overwork due to lack of courier workers.

However, in just a few months, the courier union made a statement saying that there was a shortage of jobs this time.

“After the introduction of skeleton delivery, the coverage per delivery driver increased and there was a shortage of jobs?”

“yes. I think that’s how it was announced. They say that if Formie continues to grow, there will be fewer jobs…”

At that, I smiled and said.

“Are these guys funny?”

On the face of it, this is certainly a plausible argument.

The advantage of skeleton delivery is that one delivery driver can handle a wider range.

But if you know the inside story, it was a nonsense.

“What is our skeleton delivery rate?”

“About 35 percent.”

Formi is clearly growing rapidly with skeleton delivery, but that doesn’t mean that all items are delivered by skeletons.

The only items that could be delivered by skeleton were those that were pre-stacked in Formi’s warehouse and ready to be shipped at any time, and the number of these items accounted for only 35 percent of the total transaction volume.

The remaining 65 percent is for companies or individuals to register as formier sellers and sell individually, and these are sellers who have goods, so when an order comes in, it is delivered using a general courier company.

Of course, in the future, this will also be integrated, and sellers will not send goods directly to customers, but will introduce a hybrid method that sends goods to Formi’s intermediate collection point through a courier company, and Formi transports them to the skeleton. After all, the proportion of skeleton deliveries will only be 50 to 60 percent.

Even the hybrid method, which is still only a plan, has nothing to say right now if this is the case.

“Since our share is now 20%, if 1/3 is roughly 8% of all transactions in Korea, you mean skeleton delivery, right?”

“you’re right.”

“The other day, you insisted on increasing the number of delivery people by at least 25 percent, and then you made a fuss by only reducing it by 8 percent? Even if you think of the skeleton delivery driver and the base staff, there will be fewer?”

First of all, who am I?

For a peaceful retirement, he is also a person who treads carefully on fallen leaves that used to pass by only in Korea.

Of course, considering the introduction of skeleton delivery and the resulting job loss, you decided to enter the market thinking that this would be okay, right?

According to the company’s internal calculations, the current shortage of courier drivers is about 20 percent.

Even so, most courier drivers were working overtime, so considering that point, even if skeleton deliveries accounted for 30% instead of 8%, the jobs of courier drivers were not threatened at all.

However, with only this much, they even announced an official statement.

“Other companies must still be suffering from a shortage of delivery drivers.

The president of Formi looked at me and said.

“Chairman, just ignore it. After all, they’ll talk a little bit about each other and then they’ll be quiet. As the president said, this is a ridiculous claim.”

I shook my head and said.

“That can’t be. We know that is nonsense, but aren’t ordinary people?”

It’s a nonsense from my point of view, who obviously knows the inside story, but it’s a claim that sounds plausible from the point of view of ordinary consumers.

In other words, it definitely stabbed the weak point I care about most.

“Did you get an offer from a competitor?”

It might have come out as a way to appeal to the general public, since it can’t beat the competition with skeletons.

Formi president also said with a firm expression.

“I guess it could be.”

I guess I just went out too softly.

That’s why you come out with these ridiculous claims and appeal to public opinion, right?

I thought that I might be able to turn the situation around because I care about people’s reputation.

“I have to make sure.”

Just looking at the statistics, you can tell right away that this is a statement and come out and disturb me.

Since it happened like this, I’ll make sure to screw it up.

based on facts.

“Please research all the statistical data and bring them.”

I said raising the corner of my mouth.

“Let’s destroy them all at once.”