Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 364: Ali Pays a Visit

"If you don’t get down to earth and do it, how can you know the difficulty of doing practical work?" Chen Yiyang said to Wu Changxun with a serious face, "Doing industry is really too difficult."

"Industry is indeed difficult."

After Wu Changxun sighed, he still stared at Chen Yiyang with a doubtful expression.

He always felt that Chen Yiyang’s attitude was a bit too serious, serious to the point of being strange.

But he couldn’t quite pinpoint what was wrong, so he could only continue to observe.

Then he felt more and more that there was definitely a problem.

Chen Yiyang’s negotiation with Ugly Group went too smoothly.

The price offered by Chen Yiyang wasn’t too high, falling within a very reasonable range.

Ugly Group also didn’t want to drag things out for too long; swift and decisive acquisition of Chen Yiyang’s instant retail, then dominating the entire market, was Ugly Group’s most important goal.

So within less than two days, the two sides had already negotiated all the details of the contract, and were even preparing to hold a press conference to announce the matter.

Before the press conference started, Chen Yiyang specially made a PPT, and then released this PPT directly online.

The name of the PPT was "Outlook for the Future Development of Instant Retail."

In this PPT, Chen Yiyang expressed his views and opinions.

He believed that instant retail is actually very different from delivery and is not a derivative of the delivery industry, but rather a sinking and segmentation of the e-commerce market.

Why is online shopping more popular than physical stores? Besides price factors and cost factors, there’s actually another important point: online shopping saves time and cost for customers.

This view initially seems somewhat unreasonable.

Because for offline shopping, you can take the goods away immediately after paying; online shopping requires waiting for a few days.

But upon careful investigation, you can find that offline shopping has a very high threshold.

After all, the store where you want to buy things can’t all be around your home.

You have to go out, take a bus to the business district, and then go into stores one by one to choose and compare goods, which often takes up half a day.

This wasn’t a problem in the past.

Because at that time, entertainment was scarce, shopping was considered a kind of pastime.

But for today’s young people, there are too many entertainment options, shopping is not only not a pastime, but rather a hassle.

So online shopping quickly rose.

Even though it takes several days to deliver what you bought, the saved time allows people to do what they like, whether it’s rest or entertainment, which is much better than squeezing into malls.

And instant retail is a further step, delivering the items you urgently need, which you would have otherwise gone downstairs to buy at a store, small shop, or large chain supermarket, directly to the customer’s hand at a faster speed than online shopping.

As long as customers are willing to pay for time, ordering through instant retail saves more time and effort than going out to buy themselves.

This PPT by Chen Yiyang was created by him and his entire team after spending a long time.

The data is real, and the argument is detailed.

Once the PPT was made, even people from Ugly Group said this PPT was enough for other senior executives of the company to realize the necessity of acquiring instant retail from Chen Yiyang.

However, this PPT by Chen Yiyang was not made for Ugly Group.

But unexpectedly, the first contact wasn’t the person he had in mind, but someone else.

"Someone from Ali wants to meet me?"

"Yes." Yang Chengru said over the phone, "You know Luo Ping, the one who met you earlier, the Ali M-level. He hopes to meet with you soon."

"Then let him come over tonight." Chen Yiyang glanced at the time and found it was only seven or eight o’clock.

According to Ali’s usual practice, their executives haven’t left work yet.

After Chen Yiyang agreed, within less than half an hour, Ali and Luo Ping came with Yang Chengru to Chen Yiyang’s villa in Lin’an.

"I’m just here to guide the way, you guys can talk first, I’ll find a place to play myself."

After Yang Chengru arrived, he didn’t even drink a cup of tea before finding an excuse to slip out of the reception room.

It was evident that Ali hadn’t told Yang Chengru why they were anxious to find Chen Yiyang.

Naturally, Yang Chengru didn’t want to be overly involved.

After all, both Ali and Chen Yiyang are important to Lin’an, and if Lin’an City Government were to get involved in the negotiations, they would be caught in a difficult position; it’s better to pull out from the start, just play the role of a facilitator, and not manage other matters.

"President Luo, long time no see." Chen Yiyang shook hands with Luo Ping.

"Since our last collaboration, it has indeed been a long time since we’ve met. Yiyang is a renowned entrepreneur here in Lin’an, our two companies should have more collaboration.

But due to Ali’s oversight, there hasn’t been a good opportunity for more exchange and cooperation with you, which reflects our company’s inadequacy."

Luo Ping’s posture was very low, so low that Chen Yiyang almost couldn’t believe Luo Ping was someone from Ali.

When did Ali’s people adopt such a low stance?

"It’s quite late now." Chen Yiyang directly said, "You can speak directly. We’ve collaborated with Ali several times, there’s no need for pleasantries between us."

Within Chen Yiyang’s heart, he already somewhat guessed why Ali suddenly sent someone to find him.

"Can you sell instant retail to our Ali?" Luo Ping didn’t beat around the bush and stated his purpose.

"Ali also wants to do instant retail?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"In fact, Ali has been researching for a long time." Luo Ping knew he had to speak frankly, to prevent Chen Yiyang from misjudging Ali’s sincerity.

So he directly said, "Since your instant retail started rolling out in the Southeast Three Provinces, we at Ali internally have already been researching this.

Previously, we at Ali planned to create our own instant retail brand, internally named Lightning Purchase."

"Hmm." Chen Yiyang nodded.

Honestly, he wasn’t surprised that Ali wanted to enter instant retail.

In his original plan, after his instant retail and Lightning Warehouse rolled out not long after, Ali should have been hesitant to enter the field.

At that time, they would introduce some new concepts, find a few new terms, promote it online, and then start trying to enter this field.

This has always been Ali’s usual style.

Unexpectedly, there seemed to be some problem within Ali, which delayed them until now, when he was already preparing to sell to Ugly Group, and Ali still hadn’t made a move.

"Ali initially underestimated the difficulty of Lightning Purchase. They thought they could treat the Lightning Purchase offline team like express delivery, outsourcing it to other companies.

But upon actual implementation, they found the difficulty was somewhat large. The compatibility of delivery and Lightning Purchase was too poor, and the manpower required was not on the same scale."