Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 837 A Great Company

   In the dairy farm, Yang Chen had already changed into a suit, squatted on the ground with Uncle Sam, and worked hard to milk the cows.

  The town of Bentonville is where Walmart’s main store is located. Everything here is naturally the best. In the words of Uncle Sam, if you can’t even serve the customers at your door, how can Walmart develop better?

   Therefore, he not only required that the lettuce, vegetables and fruits supplied to the residents of Bentonville town must be fresh, but also the milk, which is essential for people every day, must be guaranteed to be squeezed out every day.

   Don't look at the simple work of milking a cow. If you really do it yourself, Yang Chen knows that this is also a technical work.

   There are nearly 300 dairy cows in the entire dairy farm. Each year, dairy cows generally produce milk in three stages, namely, the milking period, the peak period and the evaporated milking period.

   The weaning period is usually about 90 days, before the cows give birth.

   The peak milk production period generally only lasts for more than three months, after the cubs are born.

Other times are the evaporated milk period. The milk production of dairy cows is different in different periods. No milk is produced at all during the stop milking period. During the peak milk production period, the daily milk production of a dairy cow is generally more than 25 kilograms. Better cows can produce milk. Yield to about fifty kilograms.

  Evaporated milking period is relatively long, at this time, the milk production of a cow per day is generally between 5 kg and 20 kg.

   What is eaten is grass, what is produced is milk, and a cow can produce so much milk every day, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Yang Chen would not have believed it.

  There are so many cows every day, if you only rely on manual milking & milk, regardless of the cost, it is only the process of milking & milking. It's enough to make people feel guilty.

   Therefore, most of the cows in the entire dairy farm use machines instead of manual work. Each cow is fixed in a small compartment, with a few hoses hanging under the belly, and a large container behind it to store milk.

  The whole process is replaced by machines. Not only is the advanced problem, but the most important point is that it can save a large part of the cost. In exchange for manual milking & milk, the money for selling milk every day is probably not enough to pay the labor wages.

  Uncle Sam did it himself today, in order to let Yang Chen experience it together. In his opinion, Yang Chen must have never done this kind of work before, so that it would be convenient for him to observe and understand at a close distance.

  The character of a person can be reflected in some aspects, especially in the face of a thing that he is not familiar with and has never done before, it will be more clearly reflected.

  Uncle Sam has dealt with many successful people in his life, there are more elites, and many talented young people have been promoted.

   After experiencing all kinds of things in the world, Uncle Sam thinks that he has no problem in seeing people, but when he faces Yang Chen, there is always a feeling that makes him elusive.

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Living in the era of information explosion in later generations, Yang Chen's thinking is very different from people in this era, especially in terms of general direction, the pattern is better than that of many young people, no, even more than that of the older generation of capital tycoons like Uncle Sam. even longer.

   There is a saying that is good, read a hundred times and see its meaning.

   As a senior web reader in later generations, under the bombardment of all kinds of information, Yang Chen's thinking can be said to be completely unrestricted by this era.

  Although it seems to jump a bit, but if you think about it carefully, it will feel very reasonable.

  Although Uncle Sam can't keep up with Yang Chen's leaping thinking, he can see that Yang Chen has some shortcomings in some aspects.

   Of course, these shortcomings may be fatal to ordinary people, but for the current Yang Chen, there will be no problems.

   Yang Chen's biggest problem is his lack of experience. There is no problem in looking at the general direction of a matter, but he is not very comprehensive in considering the details of the matter.

   This is placed on ordinary people. If you don’t pay attention to such small details, it will easily affect your own development.

   However, for a person like Yang Chen, things like details generally don’t need to be considered.

   Because of these details, someone will help him consider it, and someone will help him improve it. What do the subordinate employees use it for? Isn't it just to work for the boss and solve problems?

   As long as he has a few capable assistants by his side and he grasps the general direction, it will not be a problem at all.

   Therefore, regarding this shortcoming that is not considered a shortcoming, although Uncle Sam saw it, he did not take it to heart. On the contrary, he had a deeper understanding of Yang Chen's understanding.

   After finishing the work at hand, Uncle Sam came to Boss Yang, who had mastered milking & milk skills, patted his shoulder and asked, "How do you feel?"

   Yang Chen showed his big white teeth and said with a smile: "Apart from being a little tiring, it's quite interesting."

After hearing this, Uncle Sam recalled with a bit of recollection on his face: "In the past, my wife Helen and I, the first thing to do in the morning was to milk cows. Although there are not many people in Bentonville, people have demand for milk. But it is very big.

At that time, the two of us woke up early every day in order to save two workers’ wages. At that time, we had no other ideas except tiredness. Later, as Wal-Mart became bigger and bigger, we stopped doing this kind of work. All replaced by machines…”

   "Now, when I have nothing to do, I prefer to do it myself. This kind of thing obtained by working with my hands feels more fulfilling."

   While talking, Uncle Sam suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Yang, what do you think of Walmart?"

  Yang Chen stopped what he was doing, was silent for a while, and said, "It's a great company."

   "Oh?" Uncle Sam looked at Yang Chen in surprise. He didn't expect that the other party would use the word 'great' to describe the Walmart company he founded.

   "If you are dissatisfied, you say that my Carrefour supermarket is now developing according to Walmart's operating model. I have carefully studied Walmart's operating model, especially its specials. I think this model is very good."

   "The retail industry is closely related to the life of ordinary people. In terms of cost, it must be controlled. Only in this way can most customers be harvested.

   Walmart’s specials store has captured the psychology of the general public very well, which is a very valuable advantage and can play a very important role in the development of Walmart supermarkets…”

   After listening to Yang Chen's explanation, Uncle Sam couldn't help but have a headache, obviously feeling helpless for Yang Chen to see the advantages of Wal-Mart and learn from it.

   Uncle Sam naturally understands Carrefour, which has recruited so many of its own employees. Uncle Sam is helpless about the business model of Yang Chen's copycat Walmart.

   After all, Wal-Mart's development model is also constantly learning from the experience of other supermarket companies. There is no patent for management and operation, and it cannot restrict others or prohibit others from learning.

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   (end of this chapter)