Chapter 680: Gorgeous Revenge
"Joy City is empty?"
"Well, it's empty. It's a vacuum."
The brand owners who had been keeping an eye on Joy City’s developments quickly got the news and even received photos of the scene. They couldn’t help but look at each other in surprise.
During the National Day period, which is the hottest period of the year except for the Spring Festival, a newly opened shopping mall was directly emptied out after a large-scale promotion. This is really a huge joke.
The news spread so quickly that within a few minutes, almost the entire real estate circle knew about it. Then it was passed on to several shareholders of the Feng Group, and then to the Feng Group's headquarters in Shanghai.
Everyone was stunned by this sudden news.
"Have you heard that the Joy City that our President Feng invested in and built in Kyoto was deserted on National Day!"
"Fuck, that's not the case, is it?"
"I heard that the passenger flow was directly cut off by the Wanzhong Square in the same area. Even beggars don't go there!"
"That's not right. I heard that from the opening to October 1, Joy City's traffic was much higher than Wanzhong's. Didn't President Feng even send a congratulatory letter to our mailbox, saying that the Feng Group has reached a new level?"
"What the hell are the steps? They have discounts every day, and all the old men and women in the neighborhood go to join in the fun. It is said that during those days, you could sweep out two kilograms of white hair just by sweeping the floor, but the daily sales can't even break a million!"
"Then it won't be empty, right?"
"There's an event going on at Wanzhong Plaza next door, and it's all big brands. The headlines and group buying in the store are all full of marketing ads. Even Joy City's store staff are joining in the fun. In this case, Joy City's level is completely exposed."
"I've said it before, that Feng is no good at all. I don't know what the people above were thinking, to replace Boss Qin with him!"
"This matter should be blamed on his second-married wife. Otherwise, why would the group buy group target us so much? Oh my god, this time it's really retribution!"
"As a couple, one of them is incompetent and the other is too mean. This time they have hit a wall."
The news that Joy City staged the "empty city plan" during the National Day was like the end of the world for ordinary employees.
As everyone knows, the Feng Group has only one way to deal with a crisis, and that is to lay off employees.
So much has been invested in this project in the early stages. If it fails now, I don’t know how many employees will be laid off in order to ensure cash flow.
On the other hand, in the telephone group of the Joy City Business Department, several salesmen who were about to get the signed contracts found that they could not get through to the brand managers.
What’s even more amazing is the red exclamation mark on WeChat, which simply left them dumbfounded.
The telephone team of the Ministry of Commerce is not within the mall and is not involved in the mall operations. When something unexpected happened, they had no idea what happened.
"Xiao Liu, please stop calling me. You didn't have a single customer on October 1st. Should I open a store and play house with you?"
"No, Mr. Li, you must have misunderstood. We are Joy City, the one that just opened. We have a huge customer flow. You have seen it with your own eyes."
"You don't know yet? Then go and have a look, and tell Mr. Feng that people must be responsible for their actions. Uh... this sentence is not quite accurate. Let me put it another way."
"ah?"
"Tell Mr. Feng that people will eventually be held responsible for what they did not do."
On a noisy autumn day, Cai Ming stood on the stairs, looking at the empty shopping mall, thinking that Mr. Feng had always wanted to make Joy City famous in Kyoto and create a unique shopping center.
Now it seems that it has been completed in disguise? Famous, really famous.
It’s different. It’s really different.
At this time, the customer service department of Feng Group was also receiving calls non-stop. Some people came to confirm the news, some wanted to interview the person in charge, and some called to request a rent refund.
Those who come to confirm the news and interview are better off, but if they come just to watch the fun, just reject them directly.
However, those brands and franchisees who had already settled in demanded a rent refund, which made the situation even worse for Joy City.
Therefore, the telephone team of the Ministry of Commerce was temporarily transferred to appease those merchants and tell them that Joy City will increase its promotion efforts tomorrow and the mall will definitely restore customer flow.
But having said that, it is not easy to restore customer flow under the blockade of the Group Buying Food Festival and Wanzhong Creation Collection.
"You can... hire someone."
"?"
"Let's hire people to shop in the mall. At least we can make sure it's not empty. Let's make it look good first."
"????"
With no other options, a dirty trick was a good one, so Joy City hired more than 300 people from the labor market to shop in the mall on the second day of National Day.
Save your dignity first, then find a solution.
But what the mall managers did not expect was that just when they came up with this brilliant idea, 40 percent of the stores in Joy City began to close in protest and hang banners.
Most of these troublesome stores are franchise stores, which means that the store owners are responsible for their own profits and losses. They don't have much money themselves, and they pay to join a store just to make a living. You can invite people to shop in the mall, but I can't sell my stuff.
Under such circumstances, who would be willing to accompany them here to talk nonsense?
The most important thing is that although they are all small bosses, they are still a vulnerable group facing a behemoth like the Feng Group. If they don't seize the opportunity to gather together to protest, it will be difficult to cancel the lease once the storm is over.
"It was Mr. Feng who promised us to keep our sales secret, saying that he would use the traffic from the National Day holiday to attract Heli Lao, Xianhui Xiansheng, and Xitian, and that he would let Xitian move in next door to us!"
"Yes, Mr. Feng said at the beginning that Joy City would become a new landmark in this city!"
"We originally chose the street across from Wanzhong as the site, and we were about to sign the contract, but you insisted that Joy City was an upgraded version of Wanzhong, and that you would definitely make back your investment within half a year!"
"We can't even do a few takeout orders now. We want to cancel the lease!"
Han Xiong brought Manager Liu and Manager Song to try to appease him repeatedly, but in the end they failed.
When it comes to matters involving real money, you can't control it just by talking.
To be honest, a decrease in shopping mall traffic is not surprising during operations, and these franchisees are not new to this world.
However, they have never seen a situation where the entire building is empty during the National Day holiday and the mall has to spend money to hire people to shop. It's really fucking weird.
Some time ago, the manager of Joy City asked them to lie about sales and digest some products internally, saying that as long as they attracted high-traffic brands, everyone would benefit, and they believed it.
But in the current situation, everyone knows that no big brands will move in, and if they don’t cancel the lease, they will really be doomed.
So the next day, the headlines in the real estate business circle changed from "Joy City is empty" to "Joy City's businesses are empty."
During this period, Feng Shirong did not show up, but hid in the hotel without saying a word. It was not until late at night on the 3rd, when Joy City closed its doors, that he mustered up the courage to come back.
Duan Ying also entrusted Andy to the nanny and went to the scene with him.
Looking up from the dim hall, banners announcing the termination of lease were hung on both sides, with white cloth and red letters, which was shocking.
In fact, if Wanzhong did this on the opening day of Joy City, Joy City would not have been so miserable. Even if there was no one on the opening day, the impact would not have been so great.
But Jiang Qin let himself off during the opening period, allowing him to confidently invite countless brands to visit the store, and then use October 1st to cut off the customer flow, which was equivalent to his empty city plan of personally inviting national brands to visit Joy City.
“This brand is finished.”
Feng Shirong looked at the banners hanging high in the sky and felt a chill in his heart.
When Duan Ying heard these words, his face turned pale.
At the press conference, Jiang Qin arranged people to question her. Although she was extremely angry, she had never felt afraid, but at this moment she was really panicked.
If Joy City falls, it's your fault.
Then, Joy City fell.
Feng Group, the board of directors, those brand owners, and even the spectators would all know that Joy City's collapse was caused by her. It was all her fault! That questioning was not important at all. What was important was that it planted a nail in people's hearts, and at this moment, all the hatred was directed at her.
"If revenge is not gorgeous, it is not called revenge."
——Jiang Qin
On the fifth day of the National Day, Joy City closed its doors and announced to the public that the fire safety issue was not up to standard and the business was suspended for rectification. The famous Daniel Jiang updated his Weibo, which he hadn't used for a long time, and his first words sounded very second-rate.
Revenge? Revenge on whom? !
After reading this Weibo post, Zhang Xuhao couldn't sleep the whole night and immediately convened a meeting. The entire Ele.me instantly entered a state of combat readiness and quickly urged Alibaba and Tencent, the two financial sponsors, for funding. It felt like there was going to be a tough battle to fight.
Alipay’s senior management team also quickly held a meeting and decided to temporarily abandon the offline confrontation with WeChat Pay and fully promote the Yu’ebao project that had just been launched.
Zhang Tao from Dianping had just been discharged from the hospital. After seeing Jiang Qin’s Weibo post, he immediately gritted his teeth and thought to himself, “Don’t go too far, damn!”
There are also several logistics companies where everyone, from top to bottom, is a little nervous, as if a storm is about to come.
But only those who are involved in the commercial real estate game understand what Jiang Qin meant.
Someone bullied his wife, this is a revenge.
"What does Jiang Qin's Weibo post mean? Who has offended him again?"
"Old Jiang went to Kyoto to beat up his father-in-law. It seems that the beating was very spectacular. Damn, he was so pretentious."
Cao Guangyu couldn't help smacking his lips. After the substitution, his cock became numb with pleasure, and he buried himself deeply in Ding Xue's arms.
Being a man, you must have the ability to protect your little wife, and it feels so good to punch your father-in-law. It's a pity that Ding Xue is an orphan, otherwise he would also like to come.
At this time, Gao Wenhui also read Weibo and searched for news about Joy City. She was so excited that she went crazy.
Damn, how can there be sweet revenge? ! (ask for a monthly ticket...or2)
(End of this chapter)
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