Chapter 278: Falcon
It is a wholesale supermarket, and it may have become very large and powerful in the eyes of wholesalers, but it is not as well-known as Wal-Mart in later generations. The emergence of convenience stores OHE heralds the entry of the ubiquitous Windsor consortium into the retail industry.
Downing's plan for the retail supermarket is still full of magic. The concept arose during his stay in London, when his assistant bought too many cows, and in order to relieve the embarrassment of being kidnapped by the cows, he needed to expand the source of forage, and incidentally came up with the idea of a "lawn open-air supermarket".
In contrast to Wal-Mart's cramped, aggrieved, crowded supermarkets, the Great Lawn can be described as "vast," serving as both a source of forage for the pastures and a place of public entertainment. It is a combination of New York's Central Park and Walmart.
The lawns are for play, and the roads leading to the various lawns are full of vending machines. They are the "cells" of large supermarkets, and the difference is that in addition to direct purchases, there is also a "put in cart" function, which is convenient for customers to take away at the exit of the supermarket after a shopping spree. Stores use automated conveyor belts in the distribution center to fill shopping carts that are specially prepared for customers. And the customer himself doesn't need a real shopping cart.
Every road is a shopping mall, and customers can pick up a wheelbarrow at the entrance that can only pass through the shopping aisle, to ease the burden of moving around this vast shopping empire. Every customer can abandon the unicycle at any time and go to the lawn to enjoy life, and the unicycle will wait for its owner for ten minutes before automatically returning to the supermarket entrance.
There are some simple destination buttons on the unicycle, which can easily take customers to such as "fresh food area", "children's area", "men's clothing area", "electrical area", "kitchen and bathroom area", "sports area" and so on, saving customers the trouble of wandering around by themselves, of course, some customers, especially female customers, enjoy the feeling of being lost in the sea of shopping.
There are also some wheelbarrows at the farthest point from the entrance of the supermarket, and customers who have purchased any goods can enjoy a free return service.
Interestingly, the merchant didn't tell you that this was a shopping supermarket at all, but that there were vending machines for various goods in the lawn park, so at first the competitors didn't realize that this product was their enemy.
It was only when competitors discovered that the open-air supermarket had more goods than the real supermarket that it dawned on them. They began to ridicule this kind of supermarket "what if it was windy and rainy". This is the most romantic time in the open-air supermarket, where you can shop with an umbrella.
Don't forget that these supermarket versions can be "put into cart" remotely, so customers don't have to carry a basket or push a shopping cart with an umbrella on a rainy day. What to do if it rains and snowstorms? Well, if you're still in the mood to shop at this time, that's fine.
At the entrance of the supermarket, there is a beautiful mail-order catalogue containing all the catalogues, so that customers can easily shop with the numbers on the album even if they are standing in a shelter from the wind and rain. Of course, this is no longer the advantage of supermarkets, and the advantage of supermarkets over online products is to directly see the "visual impact" of goods. They will only use this method if the customer has a clear goal of making a purchase.
Since in the process of shopping can be turned into a rest on the lawn at any time, and vice versa, originally tourists play on the lawn, suddenly inspiration, or inadvertently see the goods on the vending machine is "visual impact", they will turn the leisure tour into a shopping tour, which is the power of the lawn supermarket, but also the advantage that other opponents can not imitate.
In order to expand this advantage, the team that operates the supermarket came up with the idea of providing escort services in the leisure area, and the beautiful, cute and lively ladies who eat, drink and sleep with are mainly from Wangxing and Aiming Star. Many people like pets, but they don't like to keep them, because it's too troublesome, I'm afraid there are not a few people in this wave. This idea to attract tourists is based on this "gap in the market".
What if I have feelings for Wangxing and Miss Xingxing in my relationship? Don't worry, you can make a reservation, and the next time you come to play, you will still "order" her. The ruthless and unrighteous Miss Aiming at the Star is enough, Miss Wangxing will definitely think of your good, this is their nature.
Similarly, there are many people who like to barbecue, but are afraid of trouble. The lawn supermarket has come to fill the gap in the market again, preparing a qiē tool and food for tourists, all washed and cut, which are all ready-made technologies generated in the process of automating the canteen anyway.
Visitors who buy a barbecue service only need to pay a little more than the regular supplier, and you can buy a beautiful experience of coming and washing away, which is really a great show for gathering with family and friends.
At present, the five-axis linkage CNC machine is ready, so it is possible to combine the sculpture park with an open-air supermarket and add a dazzling touch of color to the lawn.
Generally speaking, the clothes sold in supermarkets are ready-to-wear, and they are not too stylish and cheap, second only to street stalls. Boss Tang was born to change the world, and the sculpture park can also be used to customize clothes because it has a three-dimensional information acquisition program.
Ready-to-wear garments are generally made into s\/m\/l\/xl\/xxl and other grades with a height of 5 cm, which is convenient for large-scale production. With the three-dimensional information acquisition scheme of the sculpture park, the park supermarket has a very distinctive clothing customization service brand, called "only".
Obviously, this is only for you to tailor the clothes. Through the world's most unique three-dimensional human body information acquisition technology, anyone, as long as he is barefoot and wearing close-fitting clothes to pose a large glyph like Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man", the three-dimensional information can be saved to the center of the number, and the garment factory will cut the best fitting clothes for you, even decades of old tailors have to bow to the precision.
Whether you look like a bucket or a giraffe, mom never has to worry about you not being able to buy clothes anymore. ONLY aims to have an extremely rich range of styles and patterns, and even the special clothing of various ethnic minorities is available. So it has opened factories on the outskirts of metropolises in 25 different countries around the world to get close to the local atmosphere.
The production of only is of course a little slower than if you buy it directly in a ready-to-wear store, but it will not take too long, and the information will be transmitted to the factory through the network, and the workers can immediately start generating a batch of clothes for a certain size, and the garment will be made in about three days, and if it is a mass model, it will be faster.
The lawn supermarket is mainly green grass, which was originally an idea to digest excess cows, but Boss Tang's ranch business is getting bigger and bigger, and recently he received a telegram from Rockefeller, who helped him take care of his business in the United States, which is related to animal husbandry.
In this era, few people have the concept of protecting the ecology, in fact, Rockefeller didn't care much, but he knew that the boss must be very concerned, so he sent a telegram. With the construction of the two transpacific railroads in the United States, the westward expansion of the Americans was in full swing.
The Pacific Railroad now has a big problem, the North American bison that does not understand the rules of traffic often suddenly appear on the railroad, this is one of the largest bison in the world, the adult male bison weighs a ton, does not even live in the train, and often derails because of the North American bison.
When it rains, bison like to take shelter from the rain in artificially dug places such as railway tunnels, which can disrupt traffic for days.
As the colonists and Indigenous people of the Westward Expansion encountered more and more conflicts, the vengeful cowboys came up with a desperate plan to slaughter bison in large numbers to deprive the indigenous people of food, and they were supported by both the American governments of the North and the South.
The U.S. government sent in troops to help westward residents slaughter bison, and the most recent count was that the southern states alone killed 280,000 bison in a year, and biologists say that if the number increases, the bison population will go from being the ruling class of the Great Plains to an endangered animal.
When the colonists first arrived in North America, the world's largest grassland was home to the world's largest herd, with 60 million bison. Now it is estimated that it has dropped to 15 million heads. The frenzied Americans actually killed the bison and then only took its skin, let its delicious beef rot in the ground, and at most sold the bones to fertilizer factories as raw materials after ** rotted.
It's a waste, and even if it's not ecologically motivated, it's a terrible thing, and Downing estimates that if the beef is done well, it should make it to £100 a head in the city's retail market.
Those crazy cowboys really don't want to have a golden job, and they think that bison are competing with their own livestock. Soon, Downing drew up a plan for railroad protection and the rhythmic killing of bison and handed it over to the U.S. government. The North American Bison Company, which was mainly formed by the Windsor consortium, was contracted to drive the bison from near the railroad line and was responsible for managing the hunting of bison, all of which required a license from the Bison Company.
Only the air power of the Windsor consortium can be relied upon to accomplish this task. Regardless of the talks with the U.S. government, Downing has assigned a team to develop specialized aerial hunting tools. Adult bison are so ferocious that only a shotgun can inflict damage on them, but Downing does not intend to use such a weapon.
Despite the fact that the bison weighs a ton, it can run at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and it may only be possible for an eagle to chase them easily. However, a real eagle can't kill a ton of monsters. Downing's mechanical falcon is an upgraded version of the peregrine drone, carrying a sharp bayonet with a triangular bloodletting groove, and after catching up with the bison, the mechanical falcon will reach out and hold the bison, poke the bayonet from the top of their heads, and kill them painlessly.
The Mechanical Falcon is mounted on a Pisces crane airship, and each airship can hold 25 freshly slaughtered bison in its cold room, which is the daily workload of a mechanical falcon. (http://)。 In order to maximize the number of northern bison herds, the hunt is only for adult bulls.
The habit of the bison is that the calf and the cow live together, and the bull usually gets together to work on the base, and only during the breeding season (spring) will he fool around with the cow herd. So the plan to kill the bull is easy to implement. With a powerful means of hunting, there is naturally a powerful means of driving, so the airships patrolling in the air reconnoiter along the long railway line, and all the approaching herds of bison are hunted and driven away, and it is really not possible to use the radio to inform the train to make way for the herd of bison, presumably the herd of bison will not be so ignorant, who is not afraid of death?
Of the 15 million bison, there will be about one-third of the cows, one-third of the calves, and one-third of the bulls, so there will be about 5 million prey. A regular hunt of 5 to 10 per cent a year is 250,000 to 500,000 heads of excellent beef, even if it is 300,000 heads, about 30 million pounds of business. It is enough to make a businessman of Boss Tang's level tempted.
As for the need to drive away the aborigines, don't use such a subordinate method, if you can't communicate, you can kill people directly, and there is nothing wrong with bison. The south is much better, you can be captured as a slave, and there will be no rivers of blood. Slavery is more civilized.