Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 285 Refrigerator Sales Problem

He is not active in doing things and has problems with his thinking. Whether they are business leaders or unit leaders, they only get paid. The salary is several times higher than that of ordinary people, hundreds of dollars. But leaders who abide by laws and regulations must have an average life, and it is not easy to eat meat on a daily basis.

Even the chairman said that it was rare to eat meat once, but he was too stingy. He only gave eight taels of meat, which was not satisfying at all. Later, it was raised to one pound and two taels, which made him satisfied.

When it comes to catching spies these days, it can sometimes be seen from the way they eat. Those who eat whole grains, half eat and half vomit, are pretty much the same.

At this banquet, Luo Cheng asked himself that there was nothing special about the delicacies. Some meatballs are topped with some tender ginger foam for freshness. The strange-smelling duck only has a recipe for how to make it, and the main material is still an ordinary duck. Stewed chicken, regular fish. In later generations, some families had a large number of people, and it was normal for a meal to have so many dishes.

But this time, they ate everything, so what about the leader, they just have a little more fat in their stomachs than ordinary people, but if you look carefully, among all these people, who among them is obese? There are only a few who are slightly fatter and fleshy.

The two senior members of the Luo family were both over sixty years old and very thin. They both ate one bowl of rice noodles and two bowls of rice. Not to mention the dishes, some people really have never eaten eight dishes at one time in their lives.

This banquet is considered a wedding banquet, and drinking is indispensable. Luo Cheng had tried his best to drink as little as possible, but even if everyone paid tribute and showed a little more interest, he would have fallen down if he hadn’t been supported by someone.

Later, it was already late at night when Luo Cheng woke up. I don’t know how I got home. And when it was time to disperse, he didn’t know whether the guests had been well entertained or not.

The clothes on his body have been taken off, and his body must have been wiped and washed. Luo Cheng originally didn’t drink, but in this position, even if he drank less, he would inevitably drink some. But Luo Cheng didn’t expect that the plot of the fragment would appear on him.

Trying to recall the details, Luo Cheng realized that he didn’t seem to be completely fragmented. He was so naked and wiped clean, it wasn’t just to clean him.

In ancient times, there was no such thing as a marriage certificate. They just had a wedding ceremony and then sent it to the bridal chamber. Not counting the previous shameless activities, today is actually the formal wedding night. He remembered, why he had no memory of the process of coming back. But when Sissi helped him scrub at home, she seemed to tell him that he had to do something today, but she saw that Luo Cheng was a little unable to move. It seemed that Sissi was fiddling with Luo Cheng alone.

When I went there, I was actually given a drunken game by Sissi. This was unfair. If there was a chance in the future, Luo Cheng thought he would get her drunk as well. Then~~hey.

Looking at Dai Qianqian under the quilt, Luo Cheng now wanted to turn into a maggot and learn how maggots walk on the bed. But think about it, forget it, wake up Sissi, what if she is not satisfied. I could only get down and hug Sissi and fall asleep.

The next day, Sissi’s mother said hello to Luo Cheng and the others. The banquet was finished and it was time for her to go back. I plan to go to the station and ask if there are any return train tickets. There is no need to persuade her to stay for a few more days. Sissi’s mother has a job and cannot stay here forever. If you are retired or unemployed, you have to ask to stay.

After Luo Cheng went to the factory, he didn’t expect that Secretary Jiang would come to him in person again, hoping to agree on a time. Luo Cheng would go to the provincial capital with him with the plan and plans.

I thought it would only be a few months until the students graduate. If this thing is not implemented, even if the car factory recruits more than a thousand students and can afford to support them, it is impossible to keep them in the workshop. The most they can do is learn the process and understand the workings of the car factory. In various industries, the real recruitment of this group of people is to face the entire provincial capital.

The industrial zone has been delayed for too long, but people have been recruited in advance. If there are still talents that many units and companies need, these people will have nothing to do, but others will not be able to recruit them, and then there will be gossip again. When industrial zones are built, there will be great demand for college students.

After discussing with the secretary, we decided to leave tomorrow, and also mentioned the matter of this year’s graduating students. If we wanted to use the industrial zone, we would need a lot of graduating students. Missing the graduation period will affect the development planning of the industrial zone, which in turn will limit the time considered above.

If you don’t put some pressure and meet leaders who like to follow the process and have to refer to it on the spot, even if it is passed, it won’t mean much to Luo Cheng. Because it has been delayed for a long time, with the current monthly increase in profits of the automobile factory, it is possible to build an industrial park on its own, but at most it cannot be completed in one step.

But now, although Luo Cheng really wants to build an industrial zone, there are still many decisions that need to be made by him in the factory. For example, the refrigerator production line is actually relatively simple. The key part is the compressor, and Compressor Luo Cheng is running an additional production line. After all, compressors are widely used and it is impossible to only produce compressors for refrigerators.

If the compressor is excluded from the production line, the refrigerator is actually an iron door box with better insulation performance, with some refrigeration pipes and so on. It is actually not difficult to produce. The most important thing is that the refrigerator iron sheet does not need to be very thick, so it can be stamped and formed.

The refrigerator production line was started directly by Luo Cheng. Everyone knows that when the weather is hot, there is a refrigerator. You can make popsicles by getting some sticks and boiling sugar water at home. And it’s also good to put a lot of things that are easy to spoil overnight in the refrigerator. But the problem is how to sell this refrigerator.

In the era of planned economy, the most traditional method was to report products to local units. Then the local units will ask if there is any need for such products. This is a public sale. For selling to individuals, it is simple, just put the products on some supply and marketing cooperatives. Whether to buy with tickets is also decided by the factory. Although it is said that most things require tickets these days, there are still some things that do not require tickets, but they are only a few.

Many workshops have stamping machines, which produce some refrigeration tubes and other accessories. In fact, there is no need to purchase additional production lines. Each workshop of the automobile factory can get a mold and a production line can be put together. But if we force it together in this way, it will only squeeze the production volume of other products.

And the mechanical designers from the military factory are actually really good. For some equipment, as long as it doesn’t require precision, they can really design some machines. In addition to purchasing some machine parts, many parts can be produced by ourselves.

Refrigerators are, after all, a new product for the machinery industry. If you go to a machinery factory to purchase equipment, they may not have the right equipment. Therefore, mechanical engineers played a great role in the assembly of the refrigerator production line this time. Talents are often like this. When they are not used, it feels like some people are not even used by ordinary workers, but when they are used, they realize how good they are.

Although there is only one simple refrigerator production line at present, the compressor is produced by the compressor production line. As long as the compressor can reach the speed provided, even if there is only one production line for refrigerators, dozens of sets of accessories can be produced on average, and then it depends on the assembly workers. Can you keep up?

Preliminarily, it can easily reach thousands of units a month. But if we put it into production right away, we would have to have several thousand units when the weather gets hot. The price of this refrigerator is also an issue. Maybe no one has a specific idea of ​​how much other parts cost. But these days, most compressors rely on imports. Needless to say large ones, if you use a large one, it is not a refrigerator, but a cold storage.

The import price of a small compressor is several hundred, and of course the price is several times higher than the imported price. In fact, the current purchase price in foreign countries is only tens of dollars. Don’t think that tens of dollars means it is cheap. It depends on what era it is. In this day and age in the United States, some poor people save a few cents.

If Luo Cheng’s own compressors were calculated into the cost of imported compressors, then the price of the single-door refrigerator designed now would definitely be ridiculously high, over a thousand dollars.

The new workshop supervisor in charge of the refrigerator production line first asked Du Yongkang, the deputy director, this question. They did not care how the leaders above them sold this thing. The workshop supervisor usually tries his best to organize workers to complete the production according to the requirements from above. Factory Director Du is actually only responsible for production, but he is responsible for all workshop production. As for selling it, he actually doesn’t need to worry about it.

But if we continue to produce and not sell, although it is said that the weather will get hotter in two or three months, we will be able to produce several thousand units in two to three months. With the volume of several thousand units, whether to sell units or individuals, it is a matter of decision-making as to how to deal with it.

Selling one’s father? That is to say, it is sold to units and enterprises. For example, units and enterprises of a certain size have canteens, and the canteens are equipped with refrigerators. This is very simple. The other is to directly provide money for some leaders to use. Not to mention the refrigerator, a house, a cook, a nanny and a secretary, all are suitable for some people. So having a refrigerator is nothing.

Even in later years, color TVs became popular. In order for veteran cadres to see the news better, some departments even imported color TVs for veteran cadres to watch. One set cost several thousand.

As mentioned before, for public sales, basic users cannot use it in their personal names. The money comes from the unit or company, and people just put the profits into the car factory. Even if you sell it at a high price, for some people, their salary is only a few dozen yuan, but they feel that something worth thousands of yuan is not worth it. Not very expensive.

But if you sell an individual, it’s completely different. Even if it’s expensive, you can get an exploitative working class. A bicycle these days costs more than 160 to 180. Is it expensive? Of course it is expensive, because in a few decades, one or two hundred can buy a new bicycle.

But only those who understand know that bicycles are actually not expensive. A bicycle factory really can’t make much money from a bicycle. First of all, tires are imported and not cheap. The country is currently short of steel, and products involving steel command a premium. If a bicycle factory does not produce its own parts and only assembles them, the cost will still be hundreds. Therefore, selling a bicycle for 160 to 180 is a normal price.

As for the novels you read, some people are reborn and rely on technology to assemble bicycles and sell them. They say that the cost is only forty or fifty, plus the assembly fee, it is half the price of the bike they bought. It is pure nonsense. If you buy new imported tires, they are around 30 years old. Tell me how you can spend more than ten yuan to get other parts.

Now is the era of the working class. If you really want a bicycle, you can earn more than 100. The workers have long protested. As long as the product is sold to ordinary people, the price review is much stricter than that for the public these days. Once it exceeds a certain percentage, you won’t be allowed to sell.

But the price review is based on calculating the approximate component costs, rather than calculating the components separately. For example, the compressor is an integral part of the refrigerator. You can calculate the approximate retail price of the compressor, but you cannot calculate the price of the compressor accessories.

Luo Cheng also knew that he could make a lot more money by selling units and businesses. But so what if he earns one million, Luo Cheng only earns just over two hundred yuan a month plus subsidy. But selling it to individuals has a different meaning. At present, everything in the automobile factory is sold to units and enterprises, so no matter how well you develop, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is too high-level and has nothing to do with them.

The benefits for workers in automobile factories are good. At most, everyone is just envious of you for having a good job. But you know why the job of salesperson in a supply and marketing cooperative is very popular even though the salary is not very high. That’s because the people you are facing are individuals, and if you are an individual, you will be more humane.

Refrigerators are destined to be high-end products now, but if they are too expensive and some cadres and leaders are reluctant to buy them, it will be difficult. So after thinking for a while, Luo Cheng decided to just add an assembly fee on top of the parts. Try to keep the price as low as possible, so that it can become one of the major wedding items in the future, and then the influence will be completely different.

Finally, Luo Cheng summoned some important members of the factory and introduced a price of 650 yuan. This price is actually quite profitable for the automobile factory, mainly because the compressor is produced in-house. If other factories use purchasing methods, the cost would be close to 600 yuan.

At this price, it is destined to exclude ordinary workers from buying it. When ordinary workers buy a bicycle, they have to save for a year even if they don’t have the financial burden. As for refrigerators, even senior workers and cadres will not be willing to buy them if they have money.

In fact, just like in the 1970s, wealthy families had three major wedding items: bicycle watches and sewing machines. The Luo Chengjia family has already reached its peak ahead of its time. In the 1980s, after the reform and opening up, products such as refrigerators, color TVs, and washing machines appeared. Some people who went overseas to do business made money and became the new three major items. As for the 1990s, air conditioners, stereos and video recorders became the new three major items. Later, the car and house bills became the three major items.

But no matter what era the three major items are, those who can own them are basically people who did well in that era.

Refrigerators were one of the three major items in the 1980s. In fact, they began to be sold to ordinary people around the 1980s. Speaking of refrigerators, they were actually produced in China as early as five years ago. Speaking of factories that produce refrigerators, it should be difficult to think of any factory that would think of developing refrigerators in this era.

The earliest refrigerators produced in China were not actually used to store food or make popsicles. It is produced by a medical device factory in Sijiucheng. The purpose of production is because some drugs need to be stored at low temperatures, so research and development began. Refrigerators were for medical use. After the reform, medical use was converted to civilian use, and then demand exceeded supply.

In the 1980s, if you were from a wealthy family at that time, you would have heard of one brand, and that was the ‘Snowflake’ refrigerator. The annual production of 50,000 refrigerators is still in short supply, and at most times the annual production is 800,000 units.

The current production volume of automobile factories, if they do not increase production lines and only produce single-door refrigerators, can only produce 10,000 to 20,000 units per year. Although the current output is not comparable to that of Snowflake, sales to ordinary people are twenty years ahead of schedule.

However, the price is RMB 650, which is at least twice as cheap as the Snowflake in the 1980s. Before the reform and opening up, people’s wages were basically stable and did not increase for a decade or two. So regardless of the twenty-year gap, if you really compare it, everyone’s income at that time was not much higher than it is now. It was mainly the people who went to sea who made the money.

Luo Cheng knew that despite how difficult everyone’s life was, there were actually some people with savings who were just living a low-key life. Senior technicians have high incomes, but without bills, it is difficult to spend money. In addition, Chinese people have the habit of saving money for rainy days. Luo Cheng has not been idle for a few months in this era. He knows that many people can actually afford a refrigerator. But it’s hard to say whether he will let it go or not, so Luo Cheng has to use some later sales skills to sell the refrigerator.

But now, before it is time to sell, it is nothing to save a few thousand units. If even a few thousand units are scattered around, there will be no money to sell them. Then this refrigerator can only be sold to the public.