Now that he had paid, Kang Shuaifu had to make demands: "My special water supply must be promoted through all channels to ensure that everyone knows about it. It must have the most detailed and attractive advertising copy, be bundled with all the best-selling products, and be allocated according to each person's wealth and needs."

"No problem, dear." The online store salesperson readily agreed. "For non-branded products, there will be a 50 million yuan advertising budget across all channels, 10 million yuan for developing new advertising copy, and a 10 million yuan service fee for mandatory bundling with each best-selling product. Currently, the store has 163 best-selling products for sale..."

"Wait a minute!" Kang Shuaifu interrupted, "Since when did the mall start forcing customers to pay extra for bundled items?"

If each of the 163 best-selling items costs ten million, wouldn't that amount to another 1.6 billion?

After paying 500 million, Kang Shuaifu looked at his pitiful assets, which were only a little over 3 billion. Taking out another 1.6 billion was no longer the kind of pain of losing an arm.

The sales assistant was quite frank: "This has always been the pricing method. Twenty years ago, we also had this kind of mandatory bundling with your five types of water. Back then, we had 177 of these as our best-selling products."

Twenty years ago, Kang Shuaifu was consistently ranked among the top three on the Sunshine Rich List, with so much money he couldn't possibly remember these expenditures of over a billion yuan.

All right.

"Do you still require any mandatory bundled sales?"

After much deliberation, Kang Shuaifu decided to give up.

1.6 billion is an enormous sum for him right now.

The online store sales associate immediately understood and continued, "If you force us to allocate this amount, we will take an additional 50% commission from each order. Do you agree?"

Upon hearing 50%, Kang Shuaifu became agitated again: "This is absolutely unprecedented!"

"It's true that this didn't exist before, but it's been in place for over five years now. If you think it's not worth it, you can cancel it."

"Without forced bundling or mandatory allocation, what's the point of selling anything?!"

"No way. Good wine needs no bush. With good advertising slogans and promotion across all channels, as long as your product is cost-effective, it will quickly become a hot seller. If some fool forces you to buy something else on top of your hot-selling product, you can even earn 5 million in commission."

"Why the hell do I care about five million?"

"Okay, I've made a note of that for you. If anyone tries to force you to buy additional products on top of your best-selling items in the future, we will no longer pay you the 5 million commission."

"You're amazing!"

Kang Shuaifu is going crazy.

He rarely talks to smart robots, and even finds his own smart assistant too annoying, so he always sets it to a completely passive mode. Not to mention when he's shopping, he doesn't give the mall's sales assistants any chance to talk.

But today, for the first time, he found that the mall's sales staff were so difficult to communicate with.

They've lived over four hundred years in vain.

But then, the sales assistant's response drove Kang Shuaifu even more crazy.

"Don't you think I'm absolutely amazing? I'm the best intelligent robot under big data. Not only can I quickly capture your needs, but I can also quickly follow up with services. Your idea just now was excellent. It reflects your generous and unpretentious personality and demonstrates your wealthy and capricious qualities. Our mall also really likes merchants like you."

"I......"

Kang Shuaifu was speechless.

His original intention wasn't to reject the five million! Five million is still money, and he's really short of cash right now!

However, Kang Shuaifu knew one thing: no matter where the intelligent robots were, their mobility was off the charts. Since the mall guide had said that, it must have already been entered into the big data. Even if his products became bestsellers in the future, he would no longer be able to get the half commission that others forced him to buy.

So what's your decision now?

"Let's go with the first two. But I insist on the highest quality ads!"

"We will definitely make you satisfied!"

Kang Shuaifu grunted twice, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

Even genetically engineered humans are unreliable, let alone intelligent robots?

For double insurance, Kang Shuaifu then turned his attention to the safety cabin.

In the future world, besides going through the main channel of online stores, the only other way to sell a product is through mandatory purchase via security cabins.

Chen Guangming's light source, as a necessity of life, was forcibly purchased through the safety cabin.

There is also chemical oxygen provided by harmless chemical plants.

These items may seem free to ordinary people, but they are actually included in the cabin rental fee.

Even the previously recycled water, which was originally provided free of charge by the water company, namely Kang Shuaifu, was actually deducted by the government from the cabin rental fee collected by the safety cabin development company at a price of 1 Sunshine Coin per liter.

However, now, in addition to the fees deducted by the government, the recycled water is openly charged. For every Sunshine Coin collected, Kang Shuaifu receives half, and the other half goes to the safety cabin development company as a management fee.

Kang Shuaifu figured that if he could force residents with assets above a certain amount to consume a certain amount of recycled water and then force them to buy a bottle of special-supply water, he could consume a large amount of his special-supply water.

But he didn't want to pay half the money to the safety cabin development company...

Human wisdom is most easily elevated in dire straits, and Kang Shuaifu exemplifies this.

Based on big data analysis, he identified his target consumer group as people with assets between 5,000 and 100,000 coins. This group is quite large, exceeding 30 million. Because their assets are relatively low, their consumption is mainly based on basic necessities. Apart from occasionally buying bottled water worth 250 coins or queuing up to grab discounted natural oxygen, most of them drink recycled water and consume satiety pills.

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