Chapter 167 French Fries

After the electricity was turned on, the exhibition area of ​​household appliances has really improved a lot. Not to mention, the few TV sets have attracted a lot of foreign businessmen to stop.

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

It is a pity that these foreign businessmen are all watching the excitement, but none of them have actually placed an order, and there are only a handful of people who even come to ask.

Home appliances in the 1980s were still dominated by Japanese manufacturers. The five major Japanese home appliance brands, Panasonic, Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, and Toshiba, occupied most of the global home appliance market, whether it was high-end, mid-end or low-end, Japanese home appliances. All are sales champions.

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

Fortunately, the United States forced Japan to sign the Plaza Accord, resulting in a substantial appreciation of the yen, and the competitiveness of Japanese home appliances has also dropped significantly.

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

In the 1980s, Chinese home appliances were just getting started. Although the types were quite complete, such as TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, etc., there were several large items, and most of them were imported European technologies and production lines. In the international market, no one really buys it.

After all, Europe's own home appliances have all lost to Japanese home appliances. What can a 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. The newcomers of the household appliance industry in China want to join in and get a share of the pie, but it is not. an easy thing to do.

So this home appliance exhibition area looks very lively, in fact, not a single home appliance has been sold!

Li Weidong was sitting in the far corner with his air fryer with a relaxed expression.

Old Feng, who was selling Chunhua vacuum cleaners next to him, looked at Li Weidong with sympathy. Compared with Li Weidong, who was in a corner, his vacuum cleaner could have half of the counter exposed.

Little Li, don't be discouraged, today is the first day, and the Canton Fair will be held for more than ten days. You, this big iron box, will definitely get the order! Lao Feng said comfortingly.

Borne your auspicious words! Li Weidong smiled, then looked at his watch, it was half past ten 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 suit my appetite.

Okay, I'll get you something to eat in a while and let you make up for it. Li Weidong stood up with a smile, then took out the potato strips he had already cut, put them in the air fryer, and took them out again. I took out a bottle of oil the size of a mineral water bottle and brushed it on the potatoes.

Then Li Weidong pressed the switch of the air fryer.

After a while, Li Weidong turned on the air fryer, and the aroma of french fries quickly spread around.

Li Weidong took several prepared small paper bags, put French fries in them, 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 leftover french fries, walked outside the exhibition area, and began to observe the foreign businessmen who were approaching.

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Feeling hungry at 10:30 in the morning is a normal physiological phenomenon.

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

When people are hungry, even the most ordinary food will taste delicious. In the same way, people who are full and those who are hungry feel differently about the taste of food.

If a hungry person passes a fried food stall, the smell of fried food enters their nose, they will feel that the smell is really fragrant, and their appetite will be stimulated instantly.

And if people who have just eaten their food pass by the fried food stall, they will feel that the greasy taste is really unpleasant, and they will never want to eat fried food again.

It is for this reason that Li Weidong waited until half past ten before starting to fry french fries.

If you fry french fries at the beginning of the Canton Fair, everyone has just eaten breakfast, and the contents in their stomachs have not been digested. When they smell french fries, they will only feel greasy and greasy, and maybe they will hide. far.

However, when Li Weidong was frying french fries at 10:30, the situation was completely different. The same taste became the aroma of deep-frying. Those foreign businessmen who felt hungry would even follow the taste and be attracted to Li Weidong's side. .

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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 distribute French fries to foreign businessmen in the past. He had to first observe that the foreign businessman was starving, and then make targeted sales.

When feeling hungry, people 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; while a person who is full will probably ignore the food stall directly.

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

Soon, Li Weidong discovered the first target, which was a tall white man. In terms of his size, he should consume more energy and be more prone to hunger.

The tall white man clearly smelled the french fries. He walked towards the home appliance area while constantly looking around, as if looking for the source of the fragrance.

Li Weidong immediately stepped forward and handed a portion of French fries to the tall white man: Sir, would you like to try my fries, which are freshly 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 businessman. When Li Weidong introduced the air fryer to the tall white man, the tall white man just praised it as a very helpful product, but had no purchase intention.

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

According to Li Weidong's estimate, foreign businessmen specializing 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 go to the backward industry to purchase products.

Therefore, Li Weidong can only hope to meet the kind of discerning traders who can see the market value of air fryers and are willing to be a middleman, buying air fryers from Li Weidong, and then selling them to the home appliance industry in the country middle.

Although it depends on luck, it is not difficult to find a discerning middleman in an international exhibition such as the Canton Fair.

Especially for merchants from developed countries, in that era, if they dared to come to China to purchase goods, they must have a certain adventurous spirit. People with such adventurous spirit are also better at seizing opportunities.

It's just that Li Weidong's luck was not very good. He contacted several foreign businessmen in succession, and delivered all the french fries in his hand, and did not meet anyone who was interested in purchasing.

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

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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 did not start until the 1980s, and it is also an emerging industry in China.

Before the reform and opening up, it was not that there were no cosmetics in China, but there were only a few types, and for the people of that era, cosmetics were a luxury.

Ordinary people can use clam oil even if it is not bad. As for the vanishing cream and Vaseline cold cream from large state-owned factories, those are only affordable for cadres and families. Very normal phenomenon.

As for things like perfume, lipstick, powder, etc., 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 wore heavy makeup and went out, they would be criticized a lot, and they were considered to be indecent existences.

The domestic cosmetics industry is underdeveloped, and its products also lag behind the world. When it comes to the Canton Fair, there will be no foreign businessmen. The entire exhibition area is deserted.

In contrast, in the home appliance exhibition area, although no orders were received, a lot of people gathered, and foreign businessmen would always stop to watch the content broadcast on TV.

Originally, everyone was poor, but suddenly, the neighbor next door became the poor one who was concerned. The exhibitors in the cosmetics exhibition area suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

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

Xie Xiangshan's company brought perfume this time.

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

However, domestic perfume manufacturing has not been developed for decades. Whether it is technology, taste or packaging, the technology used in the early 20th century is still incomparable with international famous 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, but there was not even a single foreign businessman who came to inquire. Looking at the strong flow of people in the appliance exhibition area next door, Xie Xiangshan felt extremely depressed!

It was at this time that Xie Xiangshan smelled that there seemed to be a smell of fried food in the air.

Who is frying! Xie Xiangshan frowned.

Perfume producers are sensitive to smells.

And for a perfumer, the smell of this fried food is a nightmare!

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