Xu Jianguo doesn't have any special feelings about the Statue of Liberty, New York's landmark building.
The reason why he chose to bring Wen Sitian and the children here was simply to let them see this famous historical building with their own eyes.
The Statue of Liberty, whose full name is the Statue of Liberty National Monument, also known as Liberty Enlightening the World, is located on Liberty Island in New York, United States. It is a statue representing freedom donated by the United States to the United States on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the United States.
The statue weighs 450,000 pounds, is 46 meters high, and has a base 45 meters high. It is made of pure copper. The entire statue has 120 tons of steel as its skeleton, 80 tons of copper sheets as its outer skin, and is assembled and fixed on the bracket with 300,000 rivets. The total weight is 204 tons.
In fact, when this statue was first built, it was not the green color we see now, but the color of brass. It was only later due to the erosion of time that the statue became like this.
It is also worth mentioning that not far from the Statue of Liberty is the site of the former New York Harbor.
This is the place that Xu Jianguo destroyed last time using an ordinary-grade thermobaric bomb.
Although more than two years have passed since the explosion and the Port of New York has been rebuilt, it has not returned to its former bustle.
From Xu Jianguo's perspective, the Port of New York at this time had a lifeless feeling. The number of containers stacked in the port was less than one-tenth of what it used to be, and the number of ships docked at the berths was also pitifully small.
After the previous incident, Xu Shiqi and Xu Xiaoshuang have been collecting information about the Port of New York. According to feedback from some shipowners and freight forwarding companies, the explosion two years ago destroyed not only the Port of New York, but also the cornerstone of Magnesium's shipping industry.
All companies and individuals that have business dealings with the Port of New York are unwilling to allow their ships to dock at the Port of New York even after it is rebuilt and restored to its original state. Instead, they are willing to take a detour of more than 900 nautical miles to Port Meami.
After stopping and gazing into the distance for a while, Xu Jianguo came to his senses and started playing the photo-taking and check-in game with Wen Sitian and the children.
However, no one seemed very interested in the green statue of the woman behind them, so Xu Jianguo and his family simply took some photos and left in the car.
On the way, Xu Jianguo asked Xu Shiqi to take his family to the largest supermarket in New York to buy some things to take back.
Xu Shiqi naturally obeyed and drove everyone directly to a supermarket called Jinku Lun in Manhattan.
According to Xu Xiaoshuang, the Jinkulun Supermarket was the first supermarket in New York's history. It opened in 1930, more than 30 years earlier than the world-famous Sam's Club and Walmart.
Wen Sitian looked at the huge single-story building not far away and found it hard to imagine that this was actually a department store.
At this time, when the little guys heard that they were going to the store to buy things soon, they suddenly became happy, and the boredom brought by the little green men on the beach disappeared.
Considering that Wen Sitian would be the main force shopping in the supermarket soon, Xu Jianguo volunteered to carry little Xu Pingan on his chest, and the family headed towards Jinkulun Supermarket in a mighty manner.
Coincidentally, this supermarket is located in downtown Manhattan, which is under the jurisdiction of Xu Xiaoshuang's gang.
After learning the news, Xu Jianguo couldn't help but look around. After looking for a while, he nodded with satisfaction.
Through Xu Xiaoshuang's introduction, Xu Jianguo learned that the business hours of the Meiguo Supermarket are from seven in the morning to twelve at midnight, and it only closes two hours early on weekends.
In other words, the supermarket's business hours are at least fifteen hours a day, which seems a bit incredible to Xu Jianguo.
In his opinion, the daily operating costs of such a large supermarket are definitely not low. He doesn't know how many people would come to buy things in the middle of the night on weekdays, but what is certain is that even if there are people, there won't be too many. In the long run, the operating costs will increase huge amounts, which is definitely not something a qualified businessman can do.
Xu Jianguo thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
After all, this model is impossible to implement in Longxia Country, because with the development of the economy, this part of the market will soon be taken up by small chain convenience stores. The first person to propose this theory and put it into practice is? myself.
From the emergence of brands such as 7-11, Lawson and FamilyMart, to the vending machines throughout Japan, large supermarkets are simply unable to compete for the market share between 10 pm and 8 am.
When you walk into a supermarket, the first thing that catches your eye is the clean environment and the wide variety of goods on the shelves.
Xu Xiaoshuang followed Wen Sitian and whispered to her about the shopping process in the supermarket, while the children looked left and right, feeling a little overwhelmed, with curiosity on their little faces.
Because it was afternoon working hours, there were not many customers in the supermarket. The family pushed two shopping carts with wheels and went straight into the supermarket.
Snacks, beverages, vegetables, fruits, seafood, meat, daily necessities, household appliances...
Anything you can think of can be found here, but what surprised Wen Sitian the most was not the supermarket’s business model, but the service attitude of the staff here.
Whenever a customer comes to a staff member to ask about the location of a certain product, the staff member will put on a friendly smile and patiently help the customer find the product they want.
This alone is enough for domestic state-owned stores to learn from for a long time.
The slogans "Serve the People" and "No Innocent Beating of Customers" now seem really ironic.
What's even more ironic is that for a long time after the reform and opening up, domestic businesses were permeated with a sentiment of worshipping foreign things and fawning on foreigners.
To put it simply, when they see that the customers are their compatriots, they will ignore them and sometimes even insult them. When they see that the customers are foreigners, no matter which country the foreigners are from, even if they are African natives, the merchants will immediately become "sheepdogs". It is really shameful to the extreme.
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