Chapter 168 French Fries

  The home appliance exhibition area after the power was turned on, really improved a lot, not to mention, just the few TV sets attracted a lot of foreign businessmen to stop.

   After all, China was relatively closed at the time, and many people were still curious about Chinese TV programs.

  Unfortunately, these foreign businessmen are all watching the excitement, but none of them actually placed an order. There are even a handful of people who even come to inquire.

Home appliances in the 1980s were still a world of Japanese manufacturers. Five major Japanese home appliances brands such as Panasonic, Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, and Toshiba accounted for most of the global home appliance market, whether it was high-end, mid-end or low-end, Japanese home appliances Both are sales champions.

  Under the offensive of Japanese home appliances, old European and American home appliance brands such as Siemens, Electrolux, Whirlpool, and Maytag were defeated.

  Fortunately, the United States forced Japan to sign the "Plaza Agreement", which greatly appreciated the value of the yen and greatly reduced the competitiveness of Japanese household appliances.

  Japanese home appliance manufacturers have also begun to transfer home appliance manufacturing to other countries, allowing European and American brands to breathe, while also giving Chinese and Korean home appliance industries a chance to rise.

The Chinese home appliances in the 1980s have just started, although the types are quite complete, such as TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners and other major items, and most of them are imported European technology and production lines. In the international market, no one really buys it.

  After all, Europe’s own home appliances have lost to Japanese home appliances. What should the Chinese student do to compete with Japanese home appliances!

What's more, household appliances are a mature industry. Western developed countries have been engaged in it for decades, and the market has been divided up seven or eight eighty-eight. The new generation of China’s household appliances industry wants to join in, but it’s not. An easy thing.

  So this home appliance exhibition area looks very lively, but in fact none of the home appliances has been sold!

  Li Weidong is sitting with his air fryer in the most corner position, with a leisurely expression.

  The old Feng who sells Chunhua vacuum cleaners looked at Li Weidong sympathetically. Compared with Li Weidong at the corner of the corner, his vacuum cleaner could have half of the counter exposed outside.

  "Little Li, don't be discouraged. Today is the first day. The Canton Fair will be more than ten days away. You can definitely get the order for the big iron box!" Lao Feng said comfortingly.

   "I borrowed your good words!" Li Weidong smiled, then looked at his watch, it was already ten thirty in the morning.

   "Brother Feng, are you hungry?" Li Weidong asked suddenly.

   Lao Feng touched his stomach and said, “I’m really hungry. I don’t eat much in the morning. My hometown is in the north. Although there are many varieties of breakfast in Yangcheng, there are not many that appeal to me.”

"That's fine, I'll get you something to eat in a while, and let you make up for it." Li Weidong smiled and stood up, then took out the already cut potato chips, put it in the air fryer, and took it out again. A bottle of oil the size of a mineral water bottle came out and brushed it on the potatoes.

   Then Li Weidong pressed the switch of the air fryer.

  After a while, Li Weidong opened the air fryer, and the aroma of French fries quickly spread to the surroundings.

  Li Weidong took a few prepared small paper bags, filled them with French fries, and then handed one of them to Lao Feng.

   "Brother Feng, try the French fries I made!"

  Li Weidong said, took out an apron and put it on his body, then took the remaining French fries, walked outside the exhibition area, and began to observe the foreign businessmen who were heading toward him.

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  It's a normal physiological phenomenon to feel hungry at 10:30 in the morning.

  Under normal circumstances, by half past ten, the breakfast eaten in the morning has been digested, and the glycogen stored in the body does not decompose so quickly, so people will feel a sense of hunger. When the liver glycogen in the body begins to decompose, this hunger will be relieved a lot.

  When people feel hungry, even the most common food will be delicious. In the same way, the taste of food is different for people who are full and those who are hungry.

  If an hungry person passes by a fried food stall, the smell of frying is passed into the nose, and the smell is really fragrant, and the appetite is instantly stimulated.

  And if people who have just eaten their meals pass by the fried food stalls, they will find the greasy taste really unpleasant, and they don’t want to eat fried food anymore.

  It is for this reason that Li Weidong waited until ten thirty before he started to fries.

If you had French fries at the beginning of the Canton Fair, everyone had just had breakfast, and the contents in your stomach had not been digested. When you smell the French fries, you would only feel greasy and maybe even hide. Far away.

However, when Li Weidong fries fries at 10:30, the situation is completely different. The same taste becomes the smell of fried. Those foreign businessmen who feel hungry will even follow the taste and be attracted to Li Weidong. .

  ……

  I saw Li Weidong put on an apron, put on a mask, and stood outside the exhibition area with fried French fries.

  Li Weidong did not blindly hand out French fries to foreign businessmen in the past. He had to observe first that the foreign businessmen was hungry, and then he would promote targeted sales.

  When you feel hungry, people will always have some special reactions to food-related things.

  For example, when a hungry person passes by a food stall, he can't help but take a look at what the food stall is selling; and those who are full will probably ignore the food stall directly.

  These are all instincts, the most intuitive conditioned reflex, and it is not easy to hide.

   Soon, Li Weidong found the first target. This was a tall white man. In terms of his size, he should consume more energy and be hungry more easily.

  The tall white man clearly smelled the French fries. He walked towards the home appliance area, and at the same time, he constantly looked around, as if looking for the source of the fragrance.

  Li Weidong immediately stepped forward and handed a piece of french fries to the tall white man: "Sir, would you like to try my french fries, it’s just fried!"

  The tall white man looked at the golden French fries, swallowed, and took it without hesitation.

It is a pity that this white man is a tea buyer, not a home appliance business. When Li Weidong introduced the air fryer to the tall white man, the tall white man praised it as a very helpful product, but had no intention of purchasing it.

  Li Weidong was not discouraged, he immediately began to look for the next target.

  According to Li Weidong's estimation, foreign businessmen who specialize in the home appliance industry will definitely not come to the Canton Fair. After all, China's home appliances are still relatively backward, and no one will purchase products in backward industries.

Therefore, Li Weidong can only hope to meet the discerning traders who can see the market value of the air fryer and are willing to be a middleman. He buys the air fryer from Li Weidong and then sells it to the home appliance industry. middle.

  Although this depends on luck, it is not difficult to find a discerning middleman at an international exhibition like the Canton Fair.

  Especially for businessmen in developed countries, in that era, dare to come to China to purchase goods, you must have a certain sense of adventure. Such adventurous people are also better at grasping opportunities.

  It’s just that Li Weidong’s luck was not very good. He contacted several foreign businessmen in a row, and delivered all the French fries in his hands, and he didn’t meet anyone who was interested in purchasing.

   "No way, go back and fry a pot of French fries!" Li Weidong returned to the home appliance exhibition area depressed.

  ……

  Next to the home appliance exhibition area is the cosmetics exhibition area. Compared with the home appliance exhibition area, the cosmetics exhibition area is extremely deserted.

  The cosmetics industry is similar to the home appliance industry. It didn't start until the 1980s, and it is also an emerging industry in China.

  Before the reform and opening up, there was no cosmetics in China, but there were relatively few types, and for the people of that era, cosmetics were a kind of luxury.

It is good for ordinary people to use clam oil. As for the vanilla cream and petroleum jelly cold frost from the state-owned factories, they are only affordable for cadres and families. Very normal phenomenon.

  As for perfumes, lipsticks, pressed powders and the like, they are regarded as the cancer of capitalism and are not recognized by the general public, let alone produced by enterprises.

  Even in the 1980s, when women went out with heavy make-up, they would be criticized a lot, and they were considered to be "irregular".

  The domestic cosmetics industry is underdeveloped, and the products have to lag behind the world. At the Canton Fair, there will naturally be no foreign businessmen patronizing it. The entire exhibition area is deserted and deserted. It is true.

  Compared with the home appliance exhibition area, although no orders were received, a lot of people gathered at any rate, and foreign merchants would always stop and watch the content on TV.

  Everyone was a pitiful person, but suddenly, the neighbor next door became a pitiful person who was paying attention to. The exhibitors in the cosmetics exhibition area suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

  Xie Xiangshan was one of them. He kept fiddling with the bottles of perfume in front of him, staring at the home appliance exhibition area next door with a depressed expression.

  Xie Xiangshan's company, the product brought this time is perfume.

  Among the many exhibited cosmetics, perfume profit is one of the best. It is precisely because the profit is large enough that Xie Xiangshan came to the Canton Fair enthusiastically. As long as he can sign two orders, the factory can make a lot of money.

  However, domestic perfume manufacturing has not developed for decades. Whether it is craftsmanship, taste or packaging, it still uses the technology of the early twentieth century, which is even more incomparable with internationally renowned brands. This kind of grandma's product, to participate in international exhibitions, will not attract foreign businessmen at all, and naturally it will not be able to sell a bottle.

  Xie Xiangshan stayed in the exhibition hall for a whole morning. As a result, there was not even a foreign businessman who came to inquire. Looking at the strong flow of people in the home appliance exhibition area next door, Xie Xiangshan only felt very depressed!

   At this time, Xie Xiangshan smelled that there was a smell of fried food in the air. The smell became stronger and stronger, and it had masked the fragrance of cosmetics.

   "Who is blowing things!" Xie Xiangshan frowned.

  Perfume producers are still relatively sensitive to smell.

  For a perfume seller, the taste of this fried food is simply a nightmare!

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