History of Hong Kong Island

Chapter 36

The earliest electrical appliance store in Kowloon is located on Apliu Street, Sham Shui Po. The first electrical appliance store was opened by overseas Chinese. Later, it was famous for selling TVs and stereos. Now there is a row of electrical appliance stores specializing in repairing and selling radios and record players.

These days, the pavement of Apliu Street is full of loess, and the street facades are very low. There is no trendy electronics industry in each electrical store. The signs and boxes are piled up at the door, and the boss hides in the cramped counter. They are all welding transistors, like the ancient Huaqiangbei.

Ni Kun pulled the big boss to the door of a small shop, wiped his forehead with a sweat towel, and said, "Boss, the place is here."

"This shop has a good reputation among its peers. It is considered to be of high quality and low price. It has never done anything to rip off customers."

He Dingxian stepped out of the car and looked up at the signboard: "Xiaoqing Electric Appliance Store."

He nodded and entered the shop. Seeing that the boss was still busy, he started to visit alone.

Radios and record players are stacked on top of the wall cabinets. Prices are marked under each machine. There is even an area dedicated to selling second-hand goods, and a large number of accessories are scattered in one corner.

Another two TV sets are placed at the highest place as a facade, which is more meaningful for display than for sales.Because TV sets are only popular in foreign countries these days, all of them are paid channels, and the average Chinese can’t afford it at all. Only the chief ghost will have a TV set in his home. The world’s first Chinese-language TV station will also be approved for a license six years later.

At this time, the boss "Wu Xiaoqing" put down the work at hand, wearing an undershirt and sleeves on his hands, came over and introduced: "Boss, there are Japanese, American and British products. If you just want to hear the news If so, I suggest buying a second-hand Sony.”

"If it's a gift for someone, the British will buy British products, and the Yankees will buy American products. Ghosts like to support their own things these days."

He Dingxian looked at the capable middle-aged boss with great interest and asked, "I want to buy one with a clear voice and a reasonable price for listening to the radio at home."

Wu Xiaoqing is in his thirties, able to prop up the stalls of an electrical appliance store, and has hard work at hand. He immediately pointed to a machine with his palm: "Nissan's Sony is [-]% new and second-hand. Replacing the antenna and speaker can last ten years." , but the antenna is easy to break, and you have to replace it every two or three years.”

He Dingxian said with satisfaction: "The price of the antenna is cheap, and the machine looks new. How much is the price!"

Wu Xiaoqing raised three fingers: "250 yuan!"

He Dingxian felt a bit pained: "It's almost a month's salary. It's really not ordinary people who can have big things at home. Fortunately, next month, I can earn [-] plus a month. It's not too much to reward myself."

He asked straightforwardly, "Can it be cheaper?"

Wu Xiaoqing replied with a smile: "Everyone asks this, is it because everyone likes the process of bargaining, and always thinks that if the price is reached, it will be regarded as a profit? Sorry, my firm has real prices, and no counter-offers are accepted."

He Dingxian felt very interesting: "Since it is the real price, I won't counter-offer, but don't let me know that it is more expensive than the ones sold outside, or someone will smash your store. Is there any fake goods to sell to me? Parallel imports It must be cheaper!"

He still instinctively felt that the electrical appliance store likes to quote randomly. In his previous life, there were too many guys who took advantage of poor information to make money, making the electrical appliance store notorious.

Wu Xiaoqing pointed around the store with a simple face, and exaggerated: "Boss, everything you can see in the store is parallel imports. If it weren't for parallel imports, it would cost at least another 100 yuan. I really think it's so good." The money you make? All of them are imported goods, all of which are for your Chinese money, I don’t even want to sell domestic products, what can I do?”

He Dingxian also felt embarrassed when he heard the words, took out a small stack of Hong Kong dollars in his arms, put them on the table of the merchant's goods and said: "250 yuan, order a little, I'm going to call someone to pick up the goods."

Wu Xiaoqing was not in a hurry to count the money on the table, first lifted it out quickly, He Dingxian waved to Ni Kun outside when he saw this, Ni Kun came in and carried the goods to the car, Wu Xiaoqing finished everything before returning to the shop to count the money , locked the money, and said with a happy face: "Thank you, boss, thank you for sharing."

He Dingxian felt that the boss's conversation was insightful, and he was very thoughtful in his business. He seemed to be a descendant of a merchant family. He must have read books when he was a child.

There are countless people like this in Hong Kong Island, but the owner of this electrical appliance store has good business principles, and has found a business that will become more and more profitable in the future. The most rare thing is that he actually wants to start a domestic electronics industry It means that the sum of the three points is destined to make his future not ordinary.

"Do you have a phone number and a business card? If the machine is easy to use, I will introduce friends to your store to buy." He Dingxian wanted to try to make friends.

Wu Xiaoqing shook his head with a distressed face: "There is no telephone line, and the monthly rent is not reasonable. Introduce a friend and directly report the name of Aqing on Yaliu Street. If you want to find me, you can call the street grocery store."

He Dingxian nodded understandingly: "No problem."

In fact, Hong Kong Island was the first Chinese city to develop the electronics industry. It was only about ten years later than Rishima, and earlier than Taiwan Island. It was expected to catch up with Rishima and make the electronics industry an economic engine. It will shine in the 80s and [-]s. However, it is a pity that the port city's characteristics of "manufacturing is not as good as selling" have killed the industrial capacity of Hong Kong Island from the perspective of capital.

However, Hong Kong Island has also accumulated mature electronic technology in decades of maintenance, sales, and manufacturing. The technology accumulation of Shencheng Huaqiangbei originated from Hong Kong Aberdeen. Brothers who are connected by blood are also intertwined in technology and economy. .

He Dingxian felt that it was quite pleasant to take a stroll in the electrical street with nothing to do. Even if there is no dazzling array of electronic products in later generations, he can still smell a modern atmosphere in the barbaric world, like people in the city plunged into the virgin forest. Feel the pleasure of breathing natural oxygen.

He Dingxian was sitting in a rickshaw with the radio in his hand. After he came all the way to Shanghai Street, he first asked Ni Kun to take the electrical appliances home alone, and then came to the office of the film store company alone. Wu Shihao, Wu Shijie, and Jiang Yanhong were wearing white shirts. , sitting at a square table making tea, saw the big boss coming and quickly got up and shouted: "Boss He, Boss He!"

"Sit down." He Dingxian waved his hands to several of his subordinates. He didn't care that some of them were slacking off, or that their work content had changed, and they became the actual middle management. At work, I only need to be responsible for settling the boss’s troubles. Drinking tea in spare time is a good habit, which is better than getting drunk and smoking opium, which can easily delay things.

(End of this chapter)