In the next two days, the citizens of Xiangjiang felt that the senior management of several major supermarkets was crazy, and they had just been selling at a five-fold discount for two days, and what was even more excessive was that Hengyu Supermarket Group and Watsons followed up with Wellcome, and once again pulled the price to a four-fold sale.

This also makes them understand that this time is estimated to be the lowest discount price in Xiangjiang for a long time, once the Wellcome supermarket can't bear it, then the current discount will not be available anymore.

Some citizens cleaned up what they needed at home, and then made a plan to go to the supermarket for a shopping spree. There are even supplies that they have purchased enough for their families to use for a year.

This time, Wellcome did not follow up, and three days passed, and on May 26, Li Guangyu met Henry Keswick again in the office.

After taking a seat in the reception area, Henry Keswick said: "Mr. Li, we have admitted defeat this time, we are willing to withdraw from the Hong Kong retail market, but we also hope that we can restore the original price, so that our Wellcome supermarket can clear the goods in hand." ”

Li Guangyu didn't expect Henry Keswick to admit defeat so simply, he also thought that Jardine would slowly drag it out, although the loss of Jardine was not small, but the loss of Lee's Group and Hutchison Whampoa was even greater, and they lost a lot of money every time they sold a product.

Henry Keswick of course knew that the Li consortium had greater losses, but they wouldn't learn from Li Guangyu and do things that hurt others and themselves, and their ultimate goal was to make a profit, so they didn't want to know that there was no hope, and they kept Wellcome in their hands to continue to lose money.

Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Keswick, I don't know if this is what you mean alone, or if all the directors of your Jardine Holding Group mean, I don't want your supermarket to be in constant supply after the original price is restored." ”

Henry Keswick was quite angry, Li Guangyu didn't believe in his personality, it's not that there is no way for your Li consortium to know about this situation, many products in several supermarkets are still the same supplier, and the Li consortium is not unable to inquire about these news.

He said to Li Guangyu: "Mr. Li, the members of our Keswick family have not been able to do such a thing that damages the gentleman's manners, this time it is a joint decision of the four of us, we will give up the retail market in Xiangjiang, if you don't trust it, you can arrange for your personnel to go to Wellcome Supermarket to station, and we will close down after the warehouse goods are processed." ”

When Li Guangyu heard this, he knew that Jardine Matheson had made up his mind to close the Wellcome supermarket this time. Li Guangyu's heart also fell, no matter how good he said, he didn't care about the loss of the supermarket, watching the profits that should have been in his hands slip away like this in the past few months, Li Guangyu was still very unhappy in his heart. It's just that in order to be able to monopolize the retail market in Hong Kong, I chose to continue to insist.

The closure of Wellcome supermarket also allowed him to open Hengyu Supermarket Group, so many additional stores, which can bring hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars of profits to the Li Group every month, which is the benefit of monopoly, Xiangjiang now does not even have a few small and medium-sized supermarkets, and their two major supermarkets are serving more than five million citizens in Xiangjiang.

Li Guangyu said with a smile: "I also believe that the chairman of Jardine Matheson Group will not make a move that is inconsistent with his words and deeds, and there is no need to send people to garrison." You see, we will no longer offer discounts from tomorrow, and we have already made enough contributions to Heung Kong for more than three months. ”

Listening to Li Guangyu's words, Henry Keswick became angry, if it weren't for the Li consortium doing this, who would be willing to make such a contribution, and in the end, let Wellcome choose to withdraw from the Xiangjiang market.

In order to clear the supermarket's products and reduce the group's losses, he had to ask for the door to restore the original price.

Henry Keswick said: "Mr. Lee, thank you very much for agreeing to my proposal, and I will not disturb your work. ”

After Li Guangyu sent Henry Keswick out of the door, he said to Gan Qin: "You inform Chen Linwen, Zhao Xiaoyan and Li Xuelan that from tomorrow onwards, Hengyu Supermarket, Hengyu Convenience Store and Watsons will all return to their original prices, and this discount activity will end." ”

As soon as Gan Qin heard it, he knew that it must be Henry Keswick who had come to admit defeat, and he was very happy in his heart. Seeing that the supermarket has not made a profit for several months, she is also uncomfortable for Li Guangyu, and now it is finally over.

She smiled and said: "Okay Li Sheng, I'm going to inform them, I think they must be very excited, they have been under a lot of pressure in the past few months, after all, as a senior member of the group, the company is operating at a loss, and no one will be happy." ”

When Li Xuelan received Ganqin's notice, her heart was completely relaxed, and the most stressful thing in the past few months was to belong to her. Hengyu Supermarket Group is wholly owned by Li Guangyu, with the support of Li Guangyu, and there is no pressure there.

Watsons is different, its parent company is Hutchison Whampoa, this is a listed company, if it were not for the strong support of Li Ka-shing and Li Guangyu, and the later Xiangjiang Zhonghua Investment Company acquired the shares in the hands of minority shareholders, I am afraid that this time it would have been unable to sustain itself.

Even so, Hutchison Whampoa shares have been sold off by investors on the stock market, especially in the days after they made a 60% sale, when Ho's Investment acquired 8% of the outstanding shares.

On the morning of the next day, the citizens saw that the promotional signs that were discounted in the major supermarkets were gone, but there were more slogans at the end of the discount, and from now on, they will no longer be sold at discounts.

This makes the citizens of Xiangjiang still feel a little lost, but they also know that if it weren't for the Li consortium to squeeze Wellcome Supermarket out of the Xiangjiang market, they would not be able to enjoy the discounts in the past few months, although they have some regrets, they can only accept such an ending.

At the same time, the citizens of Xiangjiang also felt that the British-funded consortium was becoming more and more lonely, and one industry after another was invited out of the market by the Chinese-funded family, and the former overlord of Xiangjiang no longer had the glory of the past.

Although Wellcome is still in business, the citizens of Xiangjiang know that Wellcome must have withdrawn from the Xiangjiang market, otherwise how could the Li consortium suddenly return to its original price after months of hard work.

And the most frustrating of this is Zhang Shengjie, vice president of Jardine Holding Group and chairman of Wellcome Supermarket, this executive who jumped from the chairman of Watsons, originally wanted to lead Wellcome Supermarket to teach Watsons a lesson, but he didn't expect that in just a few months, Watsons had nothing to do, but the Wellcome Supermarket led by himself fell first.

And now it is quite unfavorable to him, after Wellcome closes, where should he go, Jardine Matheson obviously will not raise him as an idler.

At this time, he began to regret it in his heart, and blamed himself for those thoughts at that time, if he was still in Watsons, he would not need to worry about his future work.

He himself understands that after Wellcome falls, Watsons will follow in the footsteps of Hengyu Supermarket Group and begin to expand externally, but unfortunately none of this has anything to do with him.

He knew in his heart that the day Wellcome closed was when he left the Jardine Group. I have been engaged in the retail industry for decades, and Xiangjiang has now been monopolized by Hengyu Supermarket and Watsons, and I have no hope of joining it, and I can only leave my hometown and find another place if I want to engage in this industry again.

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