Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

  Chapter 321 Stable Development

   After coming out of Huo Daheng's house, Yang Chen drove towards Carrefour headquarters in a car.

   For a long time, apart from formulating development plans with several senior executives of Carrefour, Yang Chen did not interfere much in Carrefour's affairs.

   This is not to say that Yang Chen does not pay attention to Carrefour.

   On the contrary, Yang Chen's emphasis on Carrefour is definitely far more than other industries.

The reason why    did not intervene was mainly because he was afraid that he would intervene, which would make Carrefour a mess.

   In his previous life, he was an otaku bookworm, and he said it was okay, asking him to personally lead everyone to work, it would definitely be 'more effective with less effort'.

   It is precisely because of this that Yang Chen will let Han Wenguang, Chen Zhihui and others act.

  Three cobblers, the top one is Zhuge Liang.

   There are nine of them, and the top three are Zhuge Liang. What else is there to worry about?

   If there is no accident, Standard Chartered Bank will definitely sell him its retail stores.

  As a financial institution, banks cannot hold on to these things all the time. As long as they are valuable and the price is right, they will be sold.

   is just like the previous Hutchison Whampoa, when HSBC sold it to the richest man Li, the reason was just because the Taipan Wang saw the ability and potential of the richest man.

   That's it, the billion-dollar company was sent directly by HSBC, and it was finally discounted.

   Now Yang Chen just wants a few retail stores, can Standard Chartered Bank refuse?

   Once he took over the retail stores of Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong, Yang Chen would have almost 60% of the retail stores in Hong Kong.

   This number is quite scary.

   After this period of rectification, Carrefour made all the people feel refreshed.

   Great changes have been made in both the environment and the service attitude, so that ordinary people have a high evaluation of it.

   Carrefour's supermarket chain, in order to better reflect the public, ordinary tertiary supermarkets focus on fresh food.

  These supermarkets are generally not large in scale, and they are basically located near some communities, which are convenient for people to buy things.

  The second-tier supermarkets focus on home appliances. In some relatively prosperous areas, there are millions of people in Xiangjiang, and the home appliance industry is extremely profitable. Yang Chen will naturally not miss it.

   First-class supermarkets, Carrefour has not yet established, according to Yang Chen's idea, there should be two first-class supermarkets in each of the three areas of Xiangjiang.

   As for Carrefour's first-class supermarket, Yang Chen plans to turn it into a central plaza that integrates food, drink, and entertainment, just like the Wanda Plaza in the future.

  In addition to supermarkets, there are also convenience stores. Although convenience stores are small, the profits inside are definitely not small.

   In the densely populated area of ​​Hong Kong, convenience stores have a very large living space. In many cases, there are two or three convenience stores in an ordinary street.

  At the beginning, Yang Chen took over the two retail stores of HSBC and Huo He. Among them, there were a lot of convenience stores. Now Yang Chen has more than a thousand convenience stores in his hands.

In order to sort out these convenience stores, Chen Zhihui and the others spent a lot of time. Fortunately, Yang Chen owns a Carrefour supermarket. The convenience store is centered on the nearest Carrefour and is directly managed by the supermarket, which largely avoids the need for management. trouble.

  Compared to supermarkets, the environment of convenience stores is even more important. Cleanliness is a must. The decoration of all convenience stores is not exactly the same.

  All convenience stores are completely decorated according to the store environment. If the names of the convenience stores are not the same, everyone would not think that this is a convenience store owned by Carrefour.

  ‘JLF’, the initials of Carrefour, is the unified name of all convenience stores under Carrefour.

  The interior decoration style of the convenience store is unique, bold and innovative, and the colors are versatile. Anyway, how to attract people.

  In the convenience store, the items placed on the containers are basically all in the same location, so that customers do not need to spend time searching for another after they are familiar with one.

   In this regard, the management of Chen Zhihui and others is very strict.

  Because of this, Carrefour also attracted the attention of the media, and reporters with good deeds deliberately ran around hundreds of convenience stores under Carrefour in Hong Kong to verify.

   The result was really bloody, exactly the same, which made a group of obsessive-compulsive disorder patients cheer.

   In addition to supermarkets and convenience stores, Yang Chen took over the vegetable market from Huo Daheng, and he didn't put it away.

  Most of the vegetable markets have been rectified into seafood markets and various specialty processed foods, dry goods, etc. Generally, supermarkets cannot place things for sale, but they can be bought in these vegetable markets.

   Originally a messy market, after rectification, it not only attracts white-collar workers who don’t go to the market very much on weekdays, but even foreign tourists are willing to go where to buy some special food of Xiangjiang.

   Knowing that the house price in Xiangjiang will plummet in the future, Carrefour's supermarket stores, convenience stores and wet markets are all leased.

   When Yang Chen took over these stores, the lease contracts of these stores had not expired. Except for Huo Daheng's vegetable market, Yang Chen had re-signed the agreement with the owners of all Carrefour stores.

   In a place like Xiangjiang, where the house price is one price a day, it is impossible to fix the rent, and it can only be determined at the market price.

   In this regard, Yang Chen will naturally not refuse. In the next two or three years, the situation in Xiangjiang will be turbulent, housing prices will plummet, and rents will naturally follow.

   In the re-signed contract, Yang Chen deliberately added one, that is, if the owners of all Carrefour stores want to sell their houses, they must first choose to sell to Carrefour.

   This one is directly dead. After the house price in Xiangjiang falls, the owners of Carrefour stores can only choose to sell their houses to Carrefour if they want to sell their houses to stop losses.

   Of course, those who are unwilling to sell are not excluded. In that case, when the house price in Xiangjiang plummets, is Carrefour afraid that there will be no good stores to move?

   In the next year and the next year, when the Hong Kong real estate industry is in a slump, he can wave the banknotes to buy the dips.

  Although Yang Chen's actions made Chen Zhihui and others a little confused, since the decision has been made, they don't have much to say.

  With Carrefour in hand, with the advent of the Internet era in the future, with his foresight, Carrefour can complete the layout before everyone reacts.

   Holding a brick-and-mortar store has too many advantages. The reason why the bigwigs in the major brick-and-mortar industries in later generations were preempted by the richest man in Ma and the big strong son.

   The main reason is that their thinking and actions are half a beat. If they are one step faster, even if they are synchronized with the richest man in the horse, then there will be nothing to the richest man in the horse and the strong son.

  Online merchants plus physical stores, one plus one is greater than two. Even if Carrefour cannot become the overlord of the industry, it can still be like Suning Tesco.

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   (end of this chapter)