"Mr. Bezos, what's the use of you sighing and lamenting here?" Tucker said as he saw Bezos's state.
"I don't want to be like this, it's just that my opponent's move is too brilliant. My initial plan was very simple: to rope in almost all sellers of Oriental Amazon, and at the same time, with major express companies refusing to cooperate with Oriental Amazon, to compress Oriental Amazon's business volume to the extreme, and finally let Oriental Amazon perish on its own!"
"It's just that I never expected Oriental Amazon to come up with such a clever move as cooperating with Walmart, directly solving the problems of express delivery and sellers."
"You must know that even if all the goods sold by sellers in Wanxian Pavilion were combined, they would probably not match Walmart's resources. Moreover, by relying on Walmart's logistics, Oriental Amazon can save a large sum of logistics costs, which will allow express delivery to be compressed to about 5 US dollars, thus establishing its advantage in express delivery!"
"And Jiangnan Group can rely on the cooperation with Walmart to help Oriental Amazon establish a firm foothold. The next step is to develop Oriental Express according to the plan, continuously build its own logistics network, and within three years, Oriental Amazon will probably restore its nationwide delivery capability on its own!"
"What's more terrifying is that since Oriental Express is operated by Oriental Amazon itself, it will inevitably be able to carry out various reforms according to the characteristics of e-commerce, so that their express delivery business can completely serve e-commerce."
"But the express companies we cooperate with now are not. These express companies are all old companies with decades of history. Their management is arrogant, dull, and conservative! It is impossible to expect them to transform and upgrade their businesses to adapt to e-commerce platforms."
"In the past few years, Amazon has experienced many crises due to express delivery. However, because there are only a few express companies in the country, all e-commerce platforms have no choice, so this factor does not matter!"
"But once Oriental Express completes its nationwide layout, their crushing delivery service will completely overwhelm all express companies. In the future, customers may only be willing to buy goods delivered by Oriental Express. At that time, Oriental Amazon will naturally achieve a comeback through Oriental Express!"
Bezos was indeed formidable. He clearly explained the future development in a few words, which also proved that his vision was truly astonishing.
"Yes, this is similar to the predictions given by our Goldman Sachs think tank. The move to cooperate with Walmart is indeed very astonishing. This Huang He is truly a monster, always able to come up with terrifying strategies!" Tucker also exclaimed.
"Wait, since your think tank has already made predictions, doesn't that mean you already knew about the cooperation between Oriental Amazon and Walmart? Why didn't you tell me earlier! I could have made arrangements for it earlier. Does such cooperation make any sense?" Bezos questioned angrily.
"Don't be angry. You know, Walmart itself is a huge conglomerate, and it is supported by the Rockefellers. They and our Goldman Sachs have never been on good terms."
"They are also very wary of us at Goldman Sachs, and it is difficult for our people to penetrate Walmart's high-level management. Therefore, we only received this news last night and asked the think tank to conduct a simulation overnight. I did not get this result any earlier than you!" Tucker said.
"Is that so?" Bezos nodded, but then thought of something and said, "No, according to the description on this delivery notice, Oriental Amazon should have established several distribution centers around Walmart."
"It's impossible to establish them in just one or two days. It takes at least 2-3 weeks of planning and arrangement. In this way, all levels of Walmart cannot avoid interacting with Oriental Amazon. How could you only receive the news yesterday? You should have been prepared two or three weeks ago!" Bezos questioned.
"This..." Tucker's expression suddenly became a little awkward. Did he have to tell Bezos that Goldman Sachs' usual behavior was to target the senior management of various companies, try their best to befriend these senior executives, and then defect these senior executives to become their own people?
Therefore, no manpower or resources were dispatched to monitor the grassroots units of major companies. After all, those who can join Goldman Sachs are basically top talents in all walks of life. Would you send these talents to be cashiers in supermarkets?
Seeing Tucker's awkward expression, Bezos roughly guessed what was going on. It turned out that Gao Shun had never paid attention to or investigated the grassroots of Walmart from beginning to end.
"You guys! Mr. Tucker, forgive me for being blunt, but if Goldman Sachs continues to ignore the grassroots of enterprises and ordinary American people and only focuses on the top, there will be big problems sooner or later!" Bezos reminded.
"Yes! Yes!" Tucker nodded, then said indifferently, "However, this is only because Walmart's situation is special, and it is difficult for us to place our own people in high positions. Otherwise, if we could control the real Walmart top management, then this top management would reveal the news of Walmart's cooperation with Oriental Amazon to us in the first place, and there would be no need to pay too much attention to those grassroots matters!"
"After all, those grassroots employees must also follow the instructions of the top management to execute. At the same time, the situation at the grassroots will be directly summarized to the top management. Therefore, as long as we control the top management personnel, we can directly grasp the grassroots situation."
"But if we waste energy on the grassroots, we cannot know the movements of the top management!" Tucker explained indifferently. Obviously, although a problem had occurred, Goldman Sachs did not take this accident to heart.
In their opinion, this was only because their efforts at the top were not enough. What should be done next is to work harder to dig into the corners of the other party's top management, rather than paying attention to the grassroots situation.
"I hope so!" Bezos had nothing to say. He himself lacked the position to speak, and did not dwell on this issue any further. Instead, he asked, "Since your company's think tank has already conducted a comprehensive simulation of this, it should also have proposed how our Wanxian Pavilion should respond to the opponent!" Bezos asked.
"Of course there is, but we also want to understand Mr. Bezos's thoughts!" Tucker said.
"My thoughts? My thoughts are very simple: to learn from the opponent's strengths, attack the opponent's weaknesses, and finally do better than the opponent." As expected of Bezos, he quickly gave a corresponding solution.
"First of all, what we must learn and absorb is the model of cooperation with large supermarkets and selling fresh products. This model cannot be defeated, but it can be imitated and surpassed."
"As you just said, if Walmart and Goldman Sachs are not good partners, then as a company invested by Goldman Sachs, Wanxian Pavilion cannot reach cooperation with Walmart, am I right?" Bezos looked at Tucker and asked.
"That's right!" Tucker shrugged. "And according to the intelligence we obtained today, Walmart and Oriental Amazon have signed an exclusive and exclusionary cooperation agreement. For at least three years, we will not be able to cooperate with Walmart!"
"Then we will cooperate with other supermarket chains. The United States is not only Walmart. We also have Kroger, Costco, Target, and others. The number of stores of these supermarket brands combined is not much lower than Walmart!"
"I will immediately send a delegation to negotiate with these companies, so that our Wanxian Pavilion can also reach cooperation with these supermarkets, and at the same time establish transit points near these supermarkets to provide fresh services for all Wanxian Pavilion users!"
"I think if we can complete this work within a month, we should be able to win back a lot of market share!" Bezos said. xxs壹贰
"No problem, this is the same as our expert team's plan!" Tucker immediately said, "In fact, besides Walmart, nine out of the top ten domestic supermarket brands maintain good relations with Goldman Sachs."
"You don't need to send any delegation. Goldman Sachs Group can communicate with these supermarkets directly. It will take no more than three days to reach an alliance and cooperation relationship. You can rest assured about this!"
"In fact, Oriental Amazon's choice to cooperate with Walmart is also a bad idea, because in this way, all Walmart's competitors will naturally stand on our side. They cannot refuse to cooperate with us, and this will also strengthen Goldman Sachs' control over the entire retail sector. Oriental Amazon has helped us do a good thing!" Tucker smiled.
"Since that's the case, I'm relieved!" Bezos also breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time felt the great benefits of relying on a large enterprise like Goldman Sachs again.
Although there are also many points to criticize.
"Then what's next?" Tucker asked, "You're not just going to imitate Oriental Amazon's plan, but have no other moves, right!"
"Of course not!" Bezos shook his head. "As I said before, in addition to absorbing the opponent's strengths, we must also attack the opponent's weaknesses. And the opponent's weakness is also very obvious, that is, everything depends on the cooperation with Walmart. Walmart's business is equivalent to all of Oriental Amazon's business. It's too tightly bound, leaving no room for maneuver!" Bezos showed a frightening smile on his face.