Chapter 141 - 136: Visitors from Yushu Village
"Three days for five thousand cylinders, that’s a total of four hundred, right?" Liu Youmao said with a pang of distress.
"It’s four hundred and twenty-five, starting today the price of potato chips has gone up, the cost for each cylinder has increased by five cents, making it eighty-five cents," Shitou said expressionlessly, not even blinking as he raised the price on Liu Youmao—who surely couldn’t let his efforts be wasted for nothing!
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When Shitou and Lu Aiguo returned three days later to those vendors who had insisted on daily deliveries, they found, without exception, that those who were furious but had no choice, had now become the opposite party.
Without Lu Aiguo and Shitou, in a place with no telephones, not even knowing where the two men lived, those vendors who had been spoiled by daily deliveries and unwilling to pay for three days’ worth of goods at once found no place to express their regret. They could only watch, day after day, as significant potential profits slipped away—there was nothing they could do about it, unwilling as they were. They even worried, wondering if the two men were angry and would refuse to come back.
The fact was, Lu Aiguo’s potato chips sold too well, and their supply was exclusive—there were no other distributors. Quite a few vendors had tried selling potato chips made by other producers who followed the trend, but those so-called "potato chips" were, unbeknownst to many, often cut unevenly thick and either burned or undercooked, with some even roasted directly.
True, these chips were priced a little cheaper than "Duo Duo Potato Chips", but what was the use of being cheap? Ask those who had tried "Duo Duo Potato Chips" to eat from another brand, and well...
Some did, tempted by the cheaper price. But those who were good-tempered wouldn’t come back after one time. And if they happened to have a bad temper, they’d go as far as cursing the vendors out and demanding a refund.