Chapter 36: The Town of Bentonville

Ashton didn't hear it was a joke, and replied that he would fight for it.

It's rare for someone to want to shoot themselves, Chen Linzhi agreed very beautifully, and maintained the shape according to Ashton's instructions, and took more than ten photos.

When the time is up, get on the plane again and exchange contact information with each other.

After a smooth journey, they soon arrived in Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas, and parted ways, Chen Linzhi rented a car, bought a hot dog and ate it, and drove the rented Jaguar straight to the town of Bentonville in the northwest corner of Arkansas.

In this era, Jaguar belongs to the British car, has not been acquired by Ah San, neither the quality nor the reputation is worse than Mercedes-Benz, and there is also the title bonus of the royal car, driving the Jaguar XJ6 for a while, Chen Linzhi found that he bought the car in a hurry, and the XJ6 at hand may be more refined.

What you don't get is always better than what you already have, in fact, from the perspective of price and market positioning alone, there is not much difference between the two.

In the next three hours, Chen Linzhi came to Arkansas in the heart of the United States for a road trip, except for a few small cities, most of the roads along the way are forests and green meadows, if it is in the summer season, it should be more beautiful than now.

The sky was as blue as a wash, and the white clouds hung low.

On the straight road, Chen Linzhi drove the car all the way, stopped by the sheep on the way, and also passed by the wild deer, the natural environment is very good, no wonder Arkansas can be called the state of nature, the climate is quite pleasant.

The small town of Bentonville stopped to buy a French snack called "crêpe," which resembles pancake fruit.

It's hard to imagine that Wal-Mart, a supermarket chain that has been booming in recent years, took its first steps from here, spending more than 30 years propelling a retail owner to the position of the richest man in the United States.

The reason why he is said to be the richest man in the United States is that the real estate industry in this place began to exert force, according to the newspaper, driving a group of real estate developers to take off, Chen Linzhi does remember that there is a legendary businessman who has been the richest man in the world for a period of time, and it is rumored that he controls a fraction of the land in this place.

This is thanks to the real estate experts of the motherland, who tirelessly exaggerated the theory of the collapse of the real estate market and looked for examples to provide evidence, which led to Chen Linzhi having read the relevant news.

Thinking of this, I am physically and mentally exhausted, more tired than driving.

After all, it is a good opportunity to accumulate wealth quickly, but there is no money on hand to operate, and it seems that you can only watch the opportunity to achieve financial freedom slip away from your long legs.

However, Chen Linzhi is not worried, because the days are still very long, even if he accumulates capital and misses some opportunities, there are still many good opportunities waiting in the future, such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Internet highway plan.

After eating the French pancakes, wiping his mouth and taking a few deep breaths, he came to Bentonville with just an impulse, Chen Linzhi wanted to bring some fruits back, even if it was just a small order with low added value such as rags and gauze gloves, so as not to be laughed at by others, especially Yin Yu and Ah Liang.

The two of them were friends and were not optimistic about Chen Linzhi's plan to do business in advance, especially Yin Yu, who was not less shocked and said that it was better to find a way to take down Yu Luoqi, and then he would be the helmsman of the White Gang in Chinatown...... The man too.

also said that after he succeeded, he was the master of the hall, and turned the corner to realize the wish of the helm handle when he was young, which was perfect.

was so angry that Chen Linzhi wanted to beat him, after all, he felt that his teeth were quite good, and there was no need to eat soft.

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I didn't run to the library a few days ago.

In addition to charging and cultivating sales eloquence and skills, Chen Linzhi also carefully read all the books he could find about Wal-Mart to understand the operation mode of the world's largest supermarket chain, especially the structure of the purchasing department.

Wal-Mart's current share of the motherland's products in the world market is pitiful, and it is still dominated by various raw materials, without much deep processing technology, let alone sales channels.

Walma's small commodities are mainly purchased from Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and many countries in Southeast Asia, and the concept of "four tigers" and "four tigers" is popular, and they take advantage of the opportunity of transferring labor-intensive industries from developed countries to developing countries, attract a large amount of foreign capital and technology, and take advantage of local cheap and good labor to become the current "world factory".

Chen Linzhi is well aware that the manufacturing advantages of these countries will not be maintained for long, and once China's huge and astonishing cheap labor resources are utilized, they can all be wiped out quickly.

This is also the reason why he finally chose to be a fallen master after careful consideration, and took the lead in laying international trade channels, wanting to take the opportunity to take a ride to seize a wave of dividends.

Knowing the background, you can also understand why Chen Linzhi came all the way to the Walmart headquarters in Bentonville to try his luck.

In his opinion, the prices of domestic goods are absolutely low, the cost of labor is there, and there is a basis for mass production, and other countries cannot compete.

The only weak point in the plan is himself, because he does not have the support of a strong company and does not have a reputation, it may not be too easy to swallow an elephant, mainly because he cannot gain the trust of Wal-Mart's purchasing department and hand over the order to him.

Chen Linzhi leaned on the front of the car, and after smoking, he threw it on the ground and stepped on it.

After pondering it again, I didn't rush to the Walmart headquarters, but planned to find a place to book a room and talk to the local residents about the situation.

As one of the most powerful companies in the region, he believes that there should be many people working at Walmart who may be able to find opportunities to connect people.

I drove around and found a hotel that is only more than 600 meters away from the Wal-Mart headquarters, the grade is not bad, just a few years after construction, and the hall decoration is more exquisite.

When registering to open the room, Chen Linzhi heard that there was a group of people nearby, who happened to discuss inviting someone from Wal-Mart to dinner, everyone AA shared the expenses, some people sold table lamps, and some people sold hardware equipment, so it can be seen that he should have come to the right place, and he is not the only one who wants to find someone who wants to cooperate with Wal-Mart to promote products.

Considering that Walmart's sales platform is so large in the U.S., it makes sense that product salesmen are flocking to it.

With the door key in hand, Chen Linzhi, as the only Asian face, took the initiative to walk next to the group of people in the rest area.

He smiled and asked, "You are also here to promote products, right, how is the market recently, Wal-Mart's product control has become stricter?"

It clearly belongs to the chicks, but it is cheeky to pretend to be an old bird.

The four people who got together are also new friends who have just met since coming to this hotel, and they are all working as product salesmen.

Seeing that Chen Linzhi was dressed formally and still holding a Jaguar car key in his hand, he couldn't figure out his road for a while.

A young man with red hair and freckles on his face replied: "Yes, our company's mops have been brought closer to the warehouse some time ago, and they have all been returned, the reason is that a part is not strong enough, there are many customer complaints, and they are almost cleared from the supplier list." ”

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