Successfully, these small businesses all joined Pinduoduo.
"Oh, Lin Xixi, thank you so much! I didn't expect the onboarding process to go so smoothly."
"Yes, yes, those five hundred yuan were really well spent."
"Lin Xixi is indeed an extraordinary person. She has such strong connections with Xingchen Technology. She also helped with the last live-streaming sales event."
"You're welcome, you're welcome. It's all about serving the people."
Lin Chen replied while looking happily at the balance in his MiXin wallet.
At Alibaba headquarters, however, Jack Ma and Daniel Zhang were not so happy.
"This Lin Chen is utterly shameless! He actually opened a Pinduoduo direct store on our Taobao! Utterly shameless! Utterly shameless!"
"Um, Mr. Ma, that's Pinduoduo, not Pinxixi."
"Isn't that the same thing? Don't you know that's Pinduoduo?"
"But Pinduoduo doesn't acknowledge it now, so there's nothing we can do."
Jack Ma thought for a moment and then said.
"Since Lin Chen has opened a flagship store on Taobao, then we should also open a flagship store on Pinduoduo!"
"Mr. Ma, it turns out that our source of goods seems to be not very good. It is because of the poor source of goods that we have never been able to compete with Pinduoduo on Taobao."
"That's why we opened a store on Pinduoduo. That way, we'll drag down Pinduoduo's reputation, and then our customers will leave, hehehe."
"Brilliant! Brilliant, Mr. Ma!"
"Well, but I can't deliberately sell counterfeit or substandard goods, otherwise Pinduoduo will have a reason to shut down our store."
"Okay, Mr. Ma, what should we name our store on Pinduoduo?"
"Let's call it... Taobao Flagship Store, to infuriate Lin Chen!"
"Okay, I'll take care of it right away."
After Zhang Yong returned, he had someone register a store on Pinduoduo called Taobao Flagship Store. At first glance, it might seem like a store selling children's toys, but in reality, it was a front for Taobao.
Then they copied all the products from Taobao's self-operated store to Taobao's flagship store exactly as they were.
Next, he went to Panda TV's live-streaming sales center and placed an order for a whole live-streaming sales order. After that, he also placed an order with Douyin for traffic-driving ads.
This series of operations really cost a lot of money, which made Zhang Yong sigh. No wonder Xingchen Technology is rich. This is just the revenue from e-commerce. Xingchen Technology has more than just this one industry.
Thinking back to the first time I stepped into Xingchen Technology's office at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Entrepreneurship Center, the team was so unprofessional that I even had the urge to turn around and leave.
But now, under Lin Chen's leadership, it has developed into one of the top internet companies in China.
In fact, Zhang Yong knew that saying he was among the top companies was just him flattering the BAT companies. Xingchen Technology was already number one in China!
The opening of Taobao's flagship store immediately triggered feedback from Pinduoduo's backend monitoring program. Originally, Lin Chen designed this backend monitoring program for Pinduoduo to determine whether there were any newly joined large merchants that had not been discovered by the program among the many merchants poached from Taobao during this period.
When a large new merchant joins the platform, Pinduoduo will contact them specifically and offer them preferential policies, hoping to help them grow bigger and stronger and eventually shift their business focus to Pinduoduo.
This time, however, the shops that were detected left Huang Zheng somewhat puzzled.
This shop called Taobao doesn't sell children's toys at all; it sells everything, including brands like Du Mousi, Jie Moubang, and Da Mouxiang. In addition to these, it also sells maid outfits, secretary outfits, and nurse outfits.
But this is not just an adult product store; it also sells daily necessities like rice, oil, salt, and bedding sets.
Huh? Isn't this Pinduoduo's self-operated store?
Huang Zheng suddenly realized what was happening.
This piqued his interest. Who was the big shot who opened it? You know, it's very difficult to open a department store like this online, mainly because there are too many sources of goods, and you have to stock up, right?
Why do most stores, whether physical stores or Taobao stores, only sell the same type of products?
Because you only need to find one manufacturer, or you only need to find a manufacturer in one location.
For example, going to Guangzhou to buy women's clothing, going to Putian to buy sports shoes, and going to Wushang to buy small commodities.
When a product becomes famous in a certain place, a supporting industrial chain will be formed, and more and more similar factories will appear. In this way, a local specialty industry will gradually take shape.
But this kind of department store market is not like an ordinary supermarket. You can imagine it as a supermarket plus a clothing wholesale market, an electronics market, a small commodities market, an adult products market, and so on.
Based on Huang Zheng's years of experience in e-commerce platforms, this is definitely owned by some big shot.
Then he went and told Lin Chen.
"Boss, this place is definitely owned by some big shot, maybe even one of our competitors."
"Is there even a need to guess? It's obviously Taobao. Isn't the name obvious enough?"
"Could it be that other companies are just bluffing?"
"That's also possible. You could buy an item from a Taobao self-operated store and then buy the same item from this Taobao flagship store. See if the packaging and address are the same when they are shipped."
"Okay, I'll go buy it right away. Hey boss, can I get this reimbursed?"
"Reimbursement my foot! Believe me or not, I'll dock your pay!"
"No, no, no, I'll go buy it."
After hanging up the phone, Huang Zheng, feeling wronged, placed orders for a box of Du Mou Si on both Taobao's self-operated store and Taobao's flagship store, noting in the notes that the recipient's name should not be displayed.
The next day, as soon as Huang Zheng arrived at the company, the receptionist reminded him that there was a package.
"That's pretty fast."
Huang Zheng walked to the express delivery room and found two express delivery boxes.
After taking one look, his face darkened.
Not only was the recipient's name not hidden, but the waybills on both packages also stated: "Note: Do not display the recipient's name."
No, I meant you shouldn't display the recipient's name, not that you should print that sentence out.
No wonder the receptionist was looking at me strangely.
When Huang Zheng returned to the front desk with the two express delivery boxes, he saw the receptionist looking at him.
His face flushed red, and he coughed.
"Ahem, this is pretty quick to use, you need several in one night."
Unexpectedly, the receptionist's eyes lit up after he said that.
Back in his office, Huang Zheng quickly hid the two Du Mousi figures in a drawer.
Then he took out his phone and called Lin Chen.
"Boss, I'm absolutely certain now that these two stores are the same one!"
This is absolutely outrageous! You probably wouldn't find a single shop in a hundred that makes such a brain-dead, low-level mistake. If the Taobao self-operated store and the Taobao flagship store aren't the same company, Huang Zheng might as well eat those two boxes of Du Mousi!
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