"Then what? Did you agree to him?" Steele asked Xu Yi curiously.
"Of course it's impossible to agree." Xu Yi shook his head. "He just wants our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to take the lead in lowering prices, and then other chambers of commerce in Bangta City will definitely have to follow suit. In this way, their Wal-Mart Chamber of Commerce can purchase goods at a lower price, and the cost can be reduced. It will be much lower than it is now.”
"Then their purchasing price is lower, and the selling price in the mall can also be lowered." Steele said. "I think President Lundes is right. If the selling price is lowered, sales will definitely increase. Taken together, it is very likely that the overall profit will increase."
Xu Yi looked at Steele, shook his head, and sighed softly.
Steele really didn't know much about the shopping mall, so he said such wishful thinking.
Let’s not talk about whether the Wal-Mart Chamber of Commerce will actually lower the sales price after the purchase price is reduced. The price reduction itself is a very dangerous thing in Xu Yi’s opinion.
Just like a saying that was very popular in the stock market on earth, and later became more popular in the real estate market, people buy up and not down.
If the price of a product is suddenly reduced, then people's first thought is not to rush to buy it while the price is reduced, but to think that since it has been reduced once, it will definitely be reduced a second time, a third time... On the contrary, it is not Would be so eager to buy.
And once price cuts start, it's hard to stop.
If the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce lowers its prices, then even Xu Yi, other chambers of commerce in Bangta City that produce magic machines will also lower their prices accordingly.
And as long as the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce takes this initiative, other chambers of commerce may find this is a good method and want to use more exaggerated price reductions to win sales.
If more chambers of commerce follow suit, it will become a price war that can be seen everywhere on the planet.
The magic machinery industry is still a very fragile industry. In the past, it was okay when only one chamber of commerce, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, had a monopoly. Xu Yi could do whatever he wanted.
But now, under his deliberate guidance, many other chambers of commerce have joined this industry, so Xu Yi can continue to develop and grow in the long term for this industry. The impact on the entire industry must be considered before doing anything.
If there was a price war when the magic machinery industry just started. This will inevitably lead to a decrease in profit margins for all chambers of commerce engaged in this industry, and will also cause chambers of commerce that have just begun to enter this industry to lose confidence and interest. It is a huge blow to the entire industry.
Therefore, after the Bangta City Magic Machinery Business Association was established, Xu Yi negotiated with other chambers of commerce in the association and the first rule was that when each chamber of commerce sells its own magic machines, the pricing must be negotiated. Hostile bidding is not allowed.
Now President Lundes actually asked Xu Yi to take the lead in reducing prices, and of course he couldn't agree.
Of course, the Wal-Mart Chamber of Commerce is now the most important sales partner of most of the chambers of commerce that produce magic machinery in Bangta City. Xu Yi cannot be too dissatisfied with President Lenders. Although he cannot agree to reduce prices, Xu Yi offers Another plan was proposed, which was to build roads.
Since the most important factor affecting the selling price of household magic machinery in other cities is the high transportation cost. Then just reduce this cost.
In front of President Lundes and Vice President Wilson, Xu Yi cited the examples of the construction of Bangka Highway and Bangsa Highway.
According to detailed data given by Xu Yi, compared with before the construction of these two highways, the transportation cost of transporting the same goods from Bangta City to Kalma City and Saltan City has dropped by 34% and 38% respectively.
And this includes highway tolls.
For a world like Sainz Continent where transportation is not very developed. Transportation costs are the biggest obstacle to the circulation of goods. The Wal-Mart Chamber of Commerce, which mainly sells groceries, understands this more deeply than any other chamber of commerce.
So when Xu Yi said the two figures of 34% and 38%, both President Lundes and Vice President Wilson were surprised.
After confirming that Xu Yi's data was not a joke, President Lundes almost immediately decided that the Wal-Mart Chamber of Commerce would also invest in building roads.
It is not difficult to guess from his expression that the Wal-Mart Chamber of Commerce will never just build a road.
"Hey, Xu Yi, answer me, why don't you agree? I think this proposal is good." Seeing that Xu Yi was lost in thought and didn't answer for a long time, Steele couldn't help but urge.
"Ah? Ah... This is too troublesome to explain. Besides, this matter cannot be decided by me alone. At least I have to go back to Bonta City to discuss it with President Lanco and the others, so I just told President Lundes I will think about it myself." Xu Yi responded simply, quickly changed the subject, and asked: "Don't just ask me, I want to ask you too. Didn't your Excellency the Great Magician say that he would take me to participate in the magician competition today? It’s a trade union meeting, why am I here but he’s not here?”
"Oh, someone from the Magician's Guild came to see grandpa just now, and then grandpa went out with him." Steele replied.
"Then he didn't leave any instructions? For example, let me wait for him here or what?" Xu Yi asked.
Steele shook his head: "Grandpa didn't say anything. Seeing that he seemed to be walking in a hurry, I didn't know what happened."
"Going in a hurry?" Xu Yi was a little confused. "His old man has only come from Bangta City a few days ago. Is there any urgent matter that the magicians' union here has that he needs to deal with?"
"I don't know." Steele shrugged. "Grandpa is a great magician after all. If anything big happens to the Magicians Guild, since he happens to be in Anvilmar City, he will definitely be notified."
Xu Yi thought for a while and found that there was too little information to judge, so he had to give up.
"Then what should we do now? I have reserved my time this morning, but now that the great magician is busy, I am fine." Xu Yi spread his hands.
"Isn't that just right?" Steele smiled and took Xu Yi's arm, pulling him towards the door. "It's rare for the two of us to come to Anvilmar City together, and we happen to have free time. If we don't go out for a walk together, it will be in vain. Come on, I will take you to have a good tour of Anvilmar. Listen to Les Viscount Li said, "When you came here last year, you were busy with all kinds of things and had no time to hang out. It's so pitiful that you finally came here and had no time to play." I want you to enjoy the scenery of Anvilmar City!"
Xu Yi was pulled out by Steele, dumbfounded.
Because today is the first day of the Magician Guild's qualification assessment, all the magicians who participated in the first day's assessment went to the qualification assessment site outside the city. And even the magicians who did not take part in the assessment would probably go there to watch the excitement, so magicians were not everywhere in the city like yesterday, and it was relatively quiet.
Of course, being the capital of the Lampali Kingdom. The city of Anvilmar is extremely lively at any time. No matter where the two of them go, there are almost always crowds of people.
Steele studied at Lampali Royal Academy for four years, and only stayed in Anvilmar City for four years, so he is very familiar with this place.
Under her leadership, the two of them tried to avoid the most crowded places and walked back and forth through the streets and alleys of Anvilmar. For a while, I went into a small shop on the side of the road, picking up the unique puppets and commenting on them. For a while, I rested on the bank of the Rhine River that passed through the city, admiring the falling red leaves on the river bank. After a while, he took the painter who was setting up a street stall and asked him to draw a portrait of the two of them.
Seeing that Steele was having a good time, Xu Yi simply let go of all his miscellaneous thoughts and accompanied Steele to happily run around the city.
For a moment, he seemed to have returned to the time when he was dragged out by his female colleague to go shopping together when he was still young on earth.
After the two of them walked around the city, Xu Yi suddenly asked Steele that he wanted to visit Lampali Royal Academy where she studied.
Steele rolled his eyes: "I think you are not going to visit the academy, but to see the students studying magic there? Tell me honestly, are you planning to drag all the students from the Royal Academy to our Chamber of Commerce to give them to you? Work?"
Xu Yi laughed: "I do have this idea, but they graduated from the most advanced universities in the kingdom. I'm afraid they don't like our small chamber of commerce."
"That's not necessarily the case." Steele snorted lightly. "You see, even top students in the college like me are still working for you? Besides, aren't Evita and the others the same? Let me tell you, our chamber of commerce gives such good treatment to researchers. I think it's not just Rui. The students at Baron Keto’s Magic Academy want to work in the Chamber of Commerce, and so do the students at Lampali Royal Academy.”
"Of course it would be good if that's the case. But now I feel that it may not be the best choice to directly let these students come to work in the Chamber of Commerce." Xu Yi shook his head. "If possible, I really want to set up an academy that specializes in instilling theoretical knowledge about magic machinery into magicians. Only magicians who graduate from such an academy can truly be regarded as useful magic engineering mechanics."
"You can do whatever you want." Steele said with a relaxed expression. "Anyway, you are not short of money now, and with the support of the City Lord and His Royal Highness, there should be no problem with the procedures. At worst, if you let grandpa hold a position in the academy, you will be able to attract many people to study in the academy."
"Well, that's right. After what you said, I really think this idea is feasible. Well, when I go back this time, I will discuss the matter with the Lord of the City. As for now, let's go visit the Lampali Royal Palace first. The academy is ready. I'm curious how they cultivated such an outstanding girl like you, Steele."
"Hmph, I'm a natural beauty and don't need to be cultivated at all." Steele snorted coquettishly, took Xu Yi's hand and was about to walk in the direction of Lampali Royal Academy in the east of the city, but suddenly stopped. live.
Xu Yi was a little strange. He pulled Steele who was frozen in place and saw her looking diagonally across the road in a daze, as if she was stunned.
Xu Yi followed her gaze and saw two young men and women standing on the other side of the road.
The young man stared at Steele with a straight look, full of surprise and greed.