1190. Lively and Peaceful (4/5)
There are so many people who want to join Li Du. Some people take the lead and people around them gathered to respond.
Most of these people have familiar faces. They have attended the restaurant party in the small hotel two days ago and have only eaten Li Du, so he is not good enough to refuse directly.
So he thought for a while and said, "I'm happy to attend the auction with everyone, but now is not the time to discuss this, we should participate in the event first."
"How about you take us to the Macy's auction after the New Year?" asked a local treasure picker from Phoenix.
Seeing everyone looking at him with a gaze, Li Du laughed and said, "Of course, this is no problem, let's go to participate together."
Macy's is very famous and is a famous department store chain under United Department Store. Its flagship store is located in Heinold Plaza, New York City. It was promoted as the "world's largest store" when it opened on 7th Avenue.
In addition, Macy's has two national flagship stores, located in Union Square and Chicago State Street in San Francisco. There are also a large number of chain companies, spread throughout the United States and around the world.
But now with the rise of super retail companies such as Walmart, Metro, Walmart, Tesco and even Amazon, Macy's status has declined sharply and sales have also declined a lot.
In the past few decades, Macy's has introduced many policies in order to regain the market, such as "Ten Salesmen's Understanding of Products", "Gifts to Consumers", "Gifts with Awards for Consumers", "Gifts Points Method", "New Product Field Performance Method", "Product Showroom", "Fashion Show", etc., in order to effectively promote the sales of various products.
These policies are very useful, but Macy's has experienced many directional errors during its development:
At first it took the high-end department store product route, but later the president and the board of directors believed that Volkswagen Department Store would be the mainstream of the market, so they began to lower the threshold and lower the level of goods. They wanted to compete with other large supermarkets and department stores for ordinary customers.
In this way, Macy's style has been reduced and the upper-class customers they once relied on are lost.
In this process, they did not win the public's choice because in the public's mind, Macy's is still a high-end shopping mall, and it costs a lot of money to go in, and the salesmen are too enthusiastic and they are not used to it.
A few years later, Macy's Department Store found that it was not working, and returned to its original high-end shopping mall route.
Now they drove away some of the mass customers they had finally attracted, while the upper class customers and mainstream high-end products were not attracted.
In short, this former retail overlord has long since disappeared from his former style. With the global economic downturn, they have begun to shut down some shopping malls around the world to stop the bleeding.
Macy's shopping malls in the United States are closed every year. After closing, they will auction warehouses and some items that have not been successfully sold to recover funds.
Every year, Macy's shopping mall auctions can attract a large number of people to participate. This will be a grand event. The official website of the Warehousing and Auction Association will post the most eye-catching advertisements to them.
Li Du has long noticed this auction message, and it will start shooting at the beginning of the New Year.
He will definitely attend this auction. At that time, he will participate with the treasure picker who supported him a few days ago, and he will be able to repay some favors.
After receiving his promise, many treasure pickers were immediately excited.
The enthusiasm for the protests came, and the black wild horse followed the trend and started playing hip-hop with a group of black treasure pickers.
Several large speakers were placed around the square. They held microphones and shouted loudly, shouting out a series of tongue twisters-like rappers.
These people obviously prepared carefully, and the rap was very rhythmic. Li Du and other treasure pickers shook their bodies with the rhythm, just like watching a concert.
The state government next door was affected, and the speakers were a bit too good, so the police who maintained order moved the speakers.
The US police system is very chaotic. The police in Phoenix are here to maintain order. They don’t do such things and just say, “Let your state police take care of them.”
There was no choice but to mobilize the state police guarding the office building to deal with it.
The state police did not understand the situation and went to negotiate with the Black Mustang first. The Black Mustang ignored them. They were angry and went straight to snatch the speakers.
It was bustling now, and the protests were not afraid of the police taking action. What they were afraid of was that no one was to take care of them and things were silently calmed down.
As soon as the state police took action, the black wild horse waved his hand and called, and the treasure picker, who was excited by his hip-hop, immediately rushed forward with a tough stern push.
The Phoenix City policeman who maintained public order was shocked and rushed up to pull up the frame. There are so many media here, and a bunch of video recorders are shooting. Do the state police want to become famous or what?
Brother Wolf and firecrackers escorted Li Du away from the crowd, and they would not participate in this violent conflict.
When the state prefecture saw that something was wrong, the governor came forward in person and brought some members of the parliament to discuss the matter.
The governor was also very wronged. What does it have to do with the rise in oil prices? He has no power to control this at all.
This time, the US oil prices really hurt the hearts of the people. The state capital could not do anything. It started at around 10 o'clock, and the team marched along the streets, and many people joined in, and the matter became increasingly riots.
Seeing this, the governor had to speak out that he would apply to Congress to investigate the continuous rise in oil prices in Arizona. If any company is pushing the situation behind, he will definitely be punished.
The Americans, especially the black brothers, were particularly urinating, and the government gave in and they continued to march.
Li Du felt that they were not doing this to lower oil prices, but simply causing trouble, because they should know that the state government is unable to manage this aspect.
In short, it was noon, the national holiday began, the government staff got off work, and the activity team dispersed. Everyone received Christmas gifts and went home to prepare for Christmas Eve in the evening.
In the evening, the family got together for a reunion dinner.
This time they were crowded, except Hans, who had not returned yet, everyone else was here, and they were mixed together and had about thirty people, which was so lively.
It’s interesting to eat more people, especially there are a few children here, and there are a few more noisy children inside. Later, someone put the dog in, which was really a mess.
Li Du was so anxious that he was busy, but in such festivals, he was not afraid of trouble or drool.
Before going to bed, Sophie sat in front of the piano and came up with a few piano music. The lively atmosphere gradually became quiet. After listening to the soft piano music, Christmas Eve ended perfectly and returned to her room to go to bed.
Chapter completed!