Chapter 44 Inexplicable Familiarity(2/2)
Soon, pieces of information were collected at the wireless factory. As more and more information became available, all the reasons were revealed one by one.
In fact, investigating this matter does not need to be too difficult. You only need to go to a first-tier department store and ask, and you will know the reason.
Those counter salespeople who face customers naturally know the reasons why sales have plummeted.
For more than a month, customers have raised a question almost every day: Why are radios sold outside so cheap, but yours is so expensive?
The salespersons at the counter could only choose to ignore this problem. They were not fools. They naturally knew that there were people selling cheap radios outside, and some of them had even bought them secretly themselves.
Their radios are indeed cheaper than the Jinpeng brand, and are of better quality and smaller. This is an indisputable fact.
In addition to the Jinpeng brand, in the past two months, at least five or six brands of radios of various sizes have emerged in Jichun City, and the prices are almost all cheaper than the Jinpeng brand.
Except for those who don’t know the inside story, no one has bought the 26-yuan Jinpeng radio.
Nowadays, everyone has too many choices, and no one wants to be a fool.
Two days later, when an investigation report that compiled all the information appeared on Secretary Wang's desk, he gritted his teeth and read the report.
All the reasons have been explained above, and if no solution is found, the sales of Jinpeng brand will further shrink or even be eliminated from the market. Currently, in many counties and cities, many supply and marketing cooperatives are no longer willing to sell Jinpeng brand radios.
Secretary Wang has been working in a wireless factory for most of his life. He still has not figured out why his popular product was eliminated from the market in just a few months.
This was really beyond his knowledge. He still remembered that the radio produced by Wireless Factory No. 1 in 1963 was still on the market last year. Isn't it normal for a product to last more than ten years?
Why are there so many cheap radios suddenly popping up on the market?
Although Secretary Wang didn't understand these, he only grasped two words.
"Cheap!"
Yes, it is cheap. The reason why Jinpeng brand was quickly eliminated from the market is the price.
Especially when he saw the report that the most popular radio on the market now costs 19 yuan, this idea made him even more determined!
Secretary Wang, who thought he had grasped the key point, immediately held a meeting and began to discuss how to make Jinpeng radios cheaper!
The meeting was held again. After this issue was raised at the meeting, everyone turned their attention to Zhong Zhihua, who was sitting at the end.
If you want to make radios cheaper, you have to let the technical department come forward!
When Zhong Zhihua heard Secretary Wang's question, he stood up expressionlessly and spoke.
"A radio that costs 11 yuan is already the limit. If you want to lower the cost price, unless the prices of materials and electronic components are reduced, it will be difficult to lower the cost price!"
Zhong Zhihua's answer made everyone dissatisfied. Secretary Wang grasped the key point, slapped the conference table hard, and scolded.
"Fart, the cost of 11 yuan is the limit. Then that Ningjiang brand radio on the market sells for 19 yuan, are you sure that its cost is more than 11 yuan?"
Secretary Wang's good manners in the past have long since disappeared with the anger in the past few days. Now he can scold whenever he wants without any scruples about anyone.
Zhong Zhihua's face turned blue and white, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
These days, because he was angry and because his plans and proposals were rejected, he was discouraged and did not pay attention to the market situation at all.
This is mainly due to the limitations of this era. Who would have dared to imagine that the market would change in just a few months.
If it weren't for that survey report, most people in the conference room wouldn't care about the price of the cheapest radio on the market.
We are all leaders and have to take care of everything every day. Who cares about those things?
Seeing the expression on Zhong Zhihua's face, Secretary Wang thought he had made the point, and then cursed loudly.
"They are all a bunch of trash. Do the dozen or so people in the technical department have to live for a living every day? The enemy has arrived at your doorstep. You don't even know what the other party looks like. If you were on the battlefield, you would have died many times!"
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After shouting these truths, Secretary Wang felt that the depression in his chest had dissipated a little. Since he had found the problem, he should solve it.
Then Secretary Wang slapped the conference table again and shouted at Zhong Zhihua.
"I'll give your technical department seven days, no, three days, to research a cheaper radio. Others sell it for 19 yuan, so we'll sell it for 18 yuan. Niang Xipi, I still don't believe it. Our wireless director
The factory can’t even handle a Ningjiang brand that came out of nowhere!”
These words can be regarded as completely defining the nature of this meeting.
The others glanced at Zhong Zhihua with gloating eyes, and then ignored the unlucky guy!
After the meeting, Zhong Zhihua returned to the technical department with a frown.
At this time, someone had already sent several radios currently on the market, all of which were portable radios. There were six of them in total.
Six radios were placed on the table in the technical department. The small and exquisite radio in the middle immediately attracted Zhong Zhihua!
Under the light, the small silver-gray radio looked out of place with the other pitch-black and strange-shaped radios.
It's as if this radio is an era ahead of other radios.
Zhong Zhihua picked up the radio and subconsciously said.
"Which country is this from?"
Before he finished speaking, he stopped because he had already seen the small Ningjiang logo directly above.
"Ningjiang!"
Zhong Zhihua murmured to himself, this seemed like a place name. Although Zhong Zhihua was from the Northeast, he didn't really remember where Ningjiang was at the first time.
Ningjiang is just a small county-level city. Most people really don't pay attention to the place name of this small county-level city.
Fortunately, a colleague nearby knew about Ningjiang and quickly explained.
"Ningjiang is a county-level city below Liaoshen, about three hundred kilometers away from us!"
Zhong Zhihua was even more surprised now!
How could a small county-level city produce such exquisite radios?
After playing with it briefly, he discovered that this radio was extraordinary!
It doesn't even have an antenna!
And with its smooth exterior design, it doesn’t feel like it’s a product of a northeastern county-level city.
At this time, Zhong Zhihua couldn't wait any longer. He quickly took out a screwdriver and other tools and started to take it apart.
Under everyone's gaze, Zhong Zhihua quickly opened the shell.
The casing is made of hard plastic and aluminum alloy, but the plastic casing is sprayed with a metal-like paint, which makes this radio feel very high-quality.
Also, the shape design doesn’t have that boxy feel to it, and it feels very smooth in the hand.
Wait!
Zhong Zhihua suddenly remembered something and quickly shouted to a colleague next to him, "Bring me a scale!"
A colleague hurriedly ran to get the scale!
Taking advantage of this time, Zhong Zhihua finally opened the shell. When he opened it, Zhong Zhihua was stunned when he saw the structure inside!
How could it be so simple?
Is this a hidden antenna?
This circuit board is so clean!
Zhong Zhihua carefully inspected each component. The more he inspected, the more frightened he became. He was even amazed by the other party's genius ideas and creativity!
However, he always felt that the structure of this radio had a false sense of familiarity!
While he was thinking about it, a colleague hurriedly brought over a nickname for the medicinal materials.
Zhong Zhihua couldn't care less and put the radio into the weighing pan. Once he weighed it, when he saw the weight on it, his eyes widened and he murmured.
"impossible!"
A pound!
The scale showed that it weighed just one kilogram. This weight broke Zhong Zhihua's understanding of portable radios!
You must know that the Jinpeng brand portable radio weighs 1.2 kilograms. At this weight, before the Jinpeng brand was launched, it was almost the lightest radio on the market.
Even if there are a large number of following products on the market now, the weight of those products is more than one kilogram.
But now, this radio only weighs 500 grams!
How could this not shock him!
It is common sense that electronic components in this era are heavy and large. Even if you want to reduce the weight of the casing, you have to start from the material aspect.
As for the radio in front of him, its structure is extremely simple, and its internal layout is very reasonable. Even the outer casing, he came up with the idea of using metallic paint to cover up the cheap feel of the hard plastic.
This man is simply a genius!
Wait!
Zhong Zhihua just thought of the Jinpeng brand radio, and then looked at the structure inside the radio, and his frown finally relaxed.
At this moment, he finally understood where that inexplicable feeling of familiarity came from!
Isn't this... a simplified version of the Jinpeng radio?
Chapter completed!