Whether a product itself is easy to be copied is two concepts: whether the copycat manufacturer can overturn the genuine manufacturer.

Only the small peasant society in ancient times would desperately guard the so-called secret recipe.

The interesting part of the industry now lies in the fact that the low-end products are under the same technical force and labor costs, and the pioneers are not afraid of imitation because of the larger production scale and lower unit cost;

The craftsmanship of "Monopoly" itself is not complicated, and there is no threshold for imitation at all. Even if the poaching of female workers does not happen, once the sales of "Monopoly" make others feel that it is profitable, there will still be a copy of "Monopoly" immediately.

Doug is not satisfied with the current production process of "Monopoly", which is too inefficient.

Even the process that was about to be upgraded to a pipeline line was not satisfied.

But it doesn't matter, the most important thing now is how to quickly distribute the goods when the advertising has already been effective.

This involves channel construction.

Doug's positioning of "Monopoly" is a fast-moving entertainment product. Only when the price of FMCG products is low enough and the purchase is convenient enough, can the material cost and channel cost be smoothed out with the advantage of scale.

For "Monopoly," which Yale students sold for one dollar, Doug expected to sell for thirty cents when it was sold to the public of New Haven. This is the price of a silver coin coupon, a few copper coins.

But the selling price is not the ex-factory price, and Doug's estimate is ten cents.

In the case of the ex-factory price of ten cents, only when the monthly sales volume reaches more than 10,000 cents, the cost of materials, labor costs, and transportation costs can be pressed to about nine cents, which is still in the case of good management and less waste.

Isn't this kind of situation where you lose money if you are not careful?

But I'm sorry, but this is modern industrial production.

Doug is now not even sure whether his Claydon printing and dyeing factory can do this, and he has the expectation of early losses.

When the original product only costs thirty cents, does anyone want to buy a knockoff for fifty cents?

The remaining twenty cents are the profits that Doug has set aside for future big dealers and retailers.

Money can never be earned on its own.

Even if a large monopoly consortium is established, it is necessary to pay employees, right?

Twenty cents of profit and relatively low selling prices, the former ensures that there are merchants willing to put Monopoly on the shelves, and the latter ensures that someone is willing to buy Monopoly. Of course, merchants are more willing to put high-profit, good-selling goods in the most conspicuous place.

"Rose, you just need to make sure you produce well. You can report to me about anything else, but don't worry too much about it. Doug comforted the capable Rose.

Then he said to a few female workers who didn't seem to be very useful and couldn't even dig the foot of the wall, "If there are still people who come to contact you, you can still do the same as before." You can also tell them that I know. Even telling them everything that happened today, what I said, is no problem. ”

"Okay, don't be stunned, you management have been gone for a while, and it should be a mess down there. Listen, you can already hear their noisy voices. Alright, please go down and keep order. ”

Doug watched Ross and several of the female workers look at him in disbelief and waved them away.

His time is not as cheap as these female workers, and he has finished sweeping the newspaper for today, and now he is going out to talk to people about work.

As he walked down the stairs, Doug saw that Rose was keeping production in order.

Several small leaders of female workers also lost the restrained appearance of his office.

He walked out of the factory and walked down the streets of New Haven without hailing a carriage.

After the Yale student frenzy a few days ago, New Haven's passenger and freight market is in a state of turmoil.

At that time, the premium was too high, giving them incorrect earnings expectations.

Do you really think you'll ever meet a Yale fool?

Doug felt that they needed to calm down and let the market return to rationality, not on the clouds that they are floating like they are now.

New Haven, a city founded on its harbor, was not big in Doug's eyes.

In fact, even New York and London in this era are not big in Doug's opinion.

At most, it has a population of several million people, and in the country where he once lived, it was just a second- and third-tier city.

The population has not yet exceeded 10 million, even if it is not a first-tier city, and it has not reached 30 million, what kind of super city is it.

Moreover, cities that do not clean up the low-end population are far from being forced.

The first person Doug would meet today was Andreas, a German who owned three grocery stores to his name. Once in the Smith debt incident, he intersected with Doug as a creditor.

"Hey, my friend, I've finally been waiting for you!" Andreas hugged Doug in an exaggerated hug the moment he saw Doug in front of the store.

The stereotype of Germans is generally that of composure, calmness, and meticulousness.

But there are also many Germans who are not? A kind of German pork chop has 100 people, with all kinds of personalities, and they can't all be like teddy dogs, neat and uniform every day, right?

"yes, my friend, long time no see!" Doug patted Andreas on the back hard.

"How are you doing? How are you doing?" Andreas let go of Doug and looked up and down.

"It's fine. Doug replied.

"Alas...... I really didn't expect Smith to die like this. Andreas shook his head and sighed, "I heard that your minions shot and killed?"

"Yes. After you left that day, he carried a knife and said he was going to kill me. Almost stabbed me, but my minions ......," Doug said.

"Alright, don't miss Smith!" Andreas patted Doug on the shoulder, "Let's go inside and talk about working together." I heard that you're the Monopoly man that drove Yale students crazy, and now the price of the carriage hasn't dropped!"

"yes!" Doug said with a wry smile as he followed Andreas inside, "Don't you see that I didn't come in the carriage today?"

"Haha! How can you, a student of Principal Woolsey, not be able to sit in a carriage?" Andreas laughed like a barbell, running through the wooden structure of the grocery store.

The clerk and the old customers were no longer surprised, and the new customers were startled by the laughter.

Entering a small room that was small in size but beautifully decorated, Andreas restrained his smile and said with a serious expression, "Say, how do you plan to cooperate?"