Chapter 1190: 1190. Lively and Safe (4/5)

Chapter 1190 1190. Lively and Safe (45)

There were quite a few people who wanted to hang out with Li Du, some took the lead, and the surrounding people gathered to respond.

Most of these people were familiar faces. They had attended the restaurant party of the small hotel two days ago and only ate Li Du, so it was not easy for him to refuse directly.

So he thought for a while and said, "I would be happy to participate in the auction with everyone, but now is not the time to discuss this, we should go to the event first."

"How about taking us to the Macy's auction after the New Year?" asked a local treasure hunter in Phoenix.

Seeing everyone looking at him eagerly, Li Du laughed and said, "Of course, it's no problem, let's go to participate together."

Macy's is very famous and is a well-known department store chain under United Department Stores. Its flagship store is located in Herald Square in New York City. It was advertised as "the world's largest store" when it opened on 7th Avenue.

In addition, Macy's has two national flagship stores, located in Union Square in San Francisco and State Street in Chicago. There are also a large number of chain companies, all over the United States and around the world.

But now with the rise of super retail companies such as Wal-Mart, Metro, Wal-Mart, Tesco and even Amazon, the status of Macy's department store has declined sharply, and sales have also declined a lot.

In the past few decades, in order to recapture the market, Macy's has introduced many policies, such as "Ten Items of Salesperson's Understanding of Commodities", "Gifts to Consumers Law", "Consumer Contest Prizes Law", "Gifts Integral method", "new product field performance method", "product showroom", "fashion show" and so on, in order to effectively promote the sales of various commodities.

These policies are useful, but Macy's has made many mistakes in the direction of development:

At first it took the line of high-end department stores. Later, the president and the board of directors believed that mass department stores would be the mainstream of the market, so they began to lower the threshold and lower the quality of goods, trying to compete with other large supermarkets and department stores for ordinary customers.

In this way, Macy's style has been lowered, losing the upper-class customers they once relied on as a pillar.

In the process, they did not win the public's choice, because in the public's mind, Macy's is still a high-end shopping mall, where you have to spend a lot of money to go in, and the salesperson is too enthusiastic, and they are not used to it.

A few years later, Macy's found that this road was not going to work, and went back to the original high-end shopping mall route.

Now they drove away some of the mass customers that they had finally attracted, but the upper-class customers and mainstream customers of high-end products were not attracted.

In short, this former retail overlord has long since lost its former style. With the global economic downturn, they have begun to close some shopping malls around the world to stop the bleeding.

Every year in the United States, Macy's stores are closed. After closing, they will auction off the warehouse and some of the products that have not been successfully sold to get back the funds.

Every year, Macy's closed shopping mall auction can attract a large number of people to participate. This will be a grand event, and the official website of the Warehouse Auction Association will put them on the most eye-catching advertisement.

Li Du had noticed this auction information a long time ago, and the auction will start at the beginning of the new year.

He will definitely go to this auction, and he will participate with the treasure hunters who supported him a few days ago, so that he can return some favors.

After receiving his promise, many treasure hunters were immediately excited.

The enthusiasm of the protests came up, and the Black Mustang took advantage of the trend, leading a group of black treasure hunters to start playing hip-hop.

Several large speakers were placed around the square, and they shouted loudly with the microphones, shouting out a series of rap songs like tongue twisters.

These people obviously prepared carefully, and the rhythm of the rap song was very good. Li Du and other treasure hunters shook their bodies to follow the rhythm, as if they were watching a concert.

The state government next door was affected, and the effect of the speakers was a bit too good, so the police who maintained order were asked to remove the speakers.

The police system in the United States is very chaotic, and it is the police in Phoenix who maintain order here. They don't do this kind of thing, and they just say, "Let your state police take care of it."

No way, the state capital had to mobilize the state police guarding the office building to deal with it.

The state police didn't understand the situation, so they first negotiated with the Black Mustang, but the Black Mustang ignored them, and they got angry and went directly to snatch the speaker.

Now it's lively, and the protesters are most afraid of the police's actions. What they fear is that no one will take care of them, and the matter will calm down silently.

In this way, when the state police made a move, the black wild horse waved to call, and the treasure picker, who was getting excited by his hip-hop, immediately pushed forward forcefully.

The police in Phoenix City who maintained law and order were shocked, and hurried up to fight. There are so many media here, and a bunch of video cameras are shooting. Are the state police trying to be famous or what?

Brother Lang and Firecracker escorted Li Du away from the crowd, and they would not participate in this kind of violent conflict.

The state government saw that things were not going well, and the governor personally came forward and brought some members of the parliament to negotiate the matter.

The governor is also very wronged. What does the rise in oil prices have to do with him? He has no right to control this, okay?

This time the U.S. oil price has really hurt the hearts of the people, and the state government has no choice but to show up. Starting at ten o'clock, the procession marched along the street, and many people also joined in, and the incident became more and more noisy.

Seeing this, the governor had no choice but to express that he would apply to Congress to investigate the continuous rise in oil prices in Arizona. If there are companies behind the push, they must be severely punished.

The Americans, especially the black men, are particularly pissy, and they don't care if the government subdues them, and continue to march.

Li Du felt that they did not engage in this activity for the purpose of lowering oil prices at all, but simply to cause trouble, because they should know that the state government is powerless to govern in this regard.

In short, it was so noisy until noon, the national holiday began, the government staff got off work, and the activity team dispersed. Everyone received Christmas gifts by the way, and went home to prepare for Christmas Eve at night.

In the evening, the family reunited for a reunion dinner.

This time there were a lot of them, except for Hans who hadn't returned yet, the others were all here. There were about 30 people here, it was quite a bustling scene.

It's interesting to eat with more people, especially when there are several children here, and there are several furry children who are more noisy than the children. Later, someone let the dog in, and it was really a mess in the room.

Li Du was very busy, but in this kind of festival, he was not afraid of tossing, but he was afraid of being deserted.

Before going to bed, Sophie sat in front of the piano and played some piano music. The lively atmosphere gradually became quiet. After everyone listened to the soft piano music, Christmas Eve ended perfectly, and they went back to their rooms to sleep.