The House of Magic, where the two sides are battling.

The boy took a deep breath, put his hand on the top card of the deck, and shouted "God forbid".

Now it's his turn, the scene is not in his favor, but there is still a chance of life, and the teenager is pinning everything on this card draw.

"Come on!"

The boy jerked his cards, revealing them, and then froze.

The boy's opponent, Jerry Slocum, saw that he didn't move for a long time, and couldn't help urging: "Hurry up, I'm thanking for the flowers I've been waiting for." ”

Before he could finish speaking, the boy wept and threw all his cards on the table.

"I throw in the towel!"

"God must be resting today, and he actually drew a land card at such a critical time, alas!"

Jerry laughed: "It's not God's business, it's your own luck." Come on, come on, come on, I'll see what's good in your deck. ”

As he spoke, he put the opponent's deck face up, and his hand slid neatly on the table.

He's going to pick the spoils.

The teenager loses and loses, but it doesn't stop Jerry's move.

However, he was still not convinced, he raised his right hand and shouted to the store manager at the counter: "Store manager, bring me another 10 expansion packs, and add a glass of Coke by the way!"

The store manager snapped his fingers and replied, "Roger." ”

Hearing that someone asked for 10 packs, the other players in the store gathered at the boy's table.

"Friend, if you don't want to give it to me, I want a black one. ”

On-site opening is the favorite of card players, not only to have fun, but also to pick up some buyer's cards.

That's right, just a few days after the cards were released, players already knew that cards were valuable and could be traded. While most cards have a low value, some rares can ask for a lot of money, and they're pretty much priceless at this stage.

The trading behavior spontaneously formed by players was not only not stopped by the official, but also provided a service to identify the authenticity of the cards. In addition, the official card store Magic House will also have a card recycling business, of course, his price is relatively low.

The House of Magic is open until 9 p.m., and every day before closing, the store manager counts the business data and aggregates the data to the New York office.

At half past nine in the evening, after repeatedly confirming that the data was correct, the manager of this magical house in Chicago proudly dialed the phone number of the New York office.

Today's sales, how can it be ranked in the top three!

Ten o'clock in the evening, the New York office of the Magic Seven Company.

Since the launch of the new product, Girard has been off work for two weeks in a row waiting to see the sales figures.

Unlike the Rubik's Cube, which had a lot of advertisements when it was launched, the two new products, Cards and Blocks, did not adopt an advertising bombardment strategy. This is because the sales funnel is already established and there is no need for this costly method. Of course, there are still necessary advertisements.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that Girard has no bottom in his heart, so he has been staring at the sales data.

"Manager, the data is out. ”

The office's staff member in charge of statistics walked directly into Girard's office without knocking.

"How's it going?"

Girard stood in front of a white board with three data charts, one for Rubik's cubes, one for cards, and one for blocks.

As you can see from the chart, the sales of the Rubik's Cube have gone downhill, then rebounded slightly, and now it has stabilized.

There are two charts of cards and blocks, and the recorded data is based on the day. Girard asked his men to report directly to him, and he added the data to the charts.

After making the annotation, Girard clicked on the chart representing "cards" with his right index finger, bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile: "Frank, I really didn't expect that a card store could attract so many players and sell so well." ”

Frank chimed in: "It's true, but it's a pity that the number of directly operated stores is only ten. ”

Girard said: "These ten are just the beginning, take your time, you can't leave the dealers all at once." This is too offensive and even more unrealistic. ”

"Besides, the boss is very optimistic about plastic building blocks, and these can't be without dealers. ”

Frank glanced at the chart representing the "building blocks", looked worried, and said: "But, manager, the sales of building blocks are too ugly, will this affect the performance of our marketing department!"

Girard glanced back at Frank and said, "What, now you're worried about the thickness of the year-end bonus envelope?"

Frank smiled wryly and didn't speak.

"If you're worried, let's use our brains and think about ways to increase sales, so that we can reflect the role of our marketing department. ”

Frank opened his mouth to say something, but finally changed the subject and said, "Manager, since the 'Magic House' works so well, do you want to propose to the board of directors to increase the number of directly operated stores?" ”

Girard thought for a moment and replied, "Don't rush for now, wait until the trial operation is a month old." ”

……

July 8, Wilmington, Los Angeles.

At half past nine in the morning, the sun was shining.

Carl and Evan arrived in a car at the Wilmington plant of Applied Healthcare, followed by a convoy of Johnson & Johnson.

Sitting in the car were a group of people from Johnson & Johnson, including Chairman Johnson II.

Today is the official start of the factory.

"Chairman, Mr. Johnson, please!"

At the entrance of the factory, the two sides converged, and Karl, as the host, made a gesture of invitation to Johnson II and Evan.

Johnson II and Evan conceded to each other again, and then the two walked in side by side.

Band-aids are medical supplies, and their production workshops naturally have high requirements for hygiene, and people and objects entering the factory need to be disinfected.

Johnson II, who is already in the pharmaceutical industry, is no stranger to this process.

After passing through one checkpoint after another, the people wearing hair covers on their heads and masks entered the real factory area.

The production of Band-Aids needs to go through a series of processes such as raw material cutting, compounding, punching, packaging, sterilization, etc., each process is responsible for a special assembly line.

Looking at the highly automated Band-Aid production line, Johnson II looked amazed.

"Mr. Patton, Chairman Warren, your production line is amazing, and the degree of automation is so high, it must have taken a lot of effort!"

Carl replied: "Thank you, sir, for the compliment, it did take a lot of time, and of course it is also thanks to the tireless efforts of our equipment suppliers." ”

"Mr. Johnson, how about I introduce you to the whole assembly line?"

"Of course!"

……

That evening, the Hollywood Hotel.

At a long, narrow banquet table, Evan and Johnson II sat at opposite ends and talked happily.

They are both celebrating and talking.

At the end of the dinner, Johnson II and Evan shook hands and said, "Don't worry, you and I cooperate, Bundy will soon be in medicine and even grocery stores across the country, and Europe is no exception." ”