Episode 139. D-Tab3 VS Apad
“Where will the second launch country be?”
“The rest of Europe, South America and China.”
“uh? Except for Japan?”
“yes. It’s a bit shady there. I need to break that technical arrogance that has no bottom and no end. In the past, how well our D-Tab2 came out, but there were articles that said that it is too Korean to make such useless things as it is too inconvenient because there is no keyboard.”
He nodded his head as if he remembered.
“but. It was.”
“Yeah, so put Japan in the last third release country.”
“okay. But I think it’s a bit lacking in my hands to prepare everything at the same time. Originally, we were going to release it in 5 parts.”
“We take this opportunity to dramatically increase the number of people in the tablet division.”
“Because of this temporary thing? After the release preparations are over, there will be a lot of people playing.”
“It’s okay though. The remaining manpower from the tablet division will later be turned to S-Project. Tablets and smartphones have a lot in common. S-Project would have to hire and train people anyway, but in that case, it would be better to bring in people who have been trained in the tablet business.”
“In that sense, I understand. I’ll hire people and pull it out so that the second release can be done within the next month.”
University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Fred said hello to a friend he met in the classroom.
“hi. Tony.”
“Uh, hello. Fred. Your face looks brighter today. Anything good?”
“braided! I bought this with the money I saved up.”
With those words, Fred placed the iPad he bought a while ago on the desk.
“Is it an iPad?”
“yes. Goodbye to those heavy textbooks. If you have this, you can view the major textbook as an e-book. I came to school with only my iPad today, so how comfortable it was. haha.”
At that moment, Tony also took out a tablet PC from his bag.
“It would be good. I bought one this time too, but because it was D-Tab3, the major textbook e-book service was not available.”
Fred asked surprised.
“Did you buy a tablet PC too?”
“yes. I thought about the A-pad for a while, but I chose the D-Tab3 because I didn’t just study with a tablet PC. All the latest games these days are for D-Tab first.”
‘I didn’t buy it just to study.’ ‘ asked Fred, who swallowed the words.
“What games have come out with it these days?”
“First of all, the most famous is the Diablo 2 expansion!”
“Is there an extended version?”
“yes. Two more characters were added, and a new story was added. Besides, Diablo 2 had a good hitting feel, but the expanded version was even better. Look at this.”
Freddie’s eyes widened when Tony started the Diablo 2 expansion and started defeating monsters with the newly added assassin character.
“Wow! It’s not really a joke. It really feels like hitting.”
“Is not it? Because this is almost like a hand feeling. haha.”
Tony continued.
“Not only these games, but also movies and dramas made by Haner Brothers with D-Tab3, so I like to enjoy them even when I have a little spare time.”
“From movies to dramas?”
Hearing those words, little by little, regrets began to sprout in Fred’s mind, ‘Did I choose an A-pad for nothing?’
Class started soon.
Fred, who was listening to lectures while reading major books on his iPad, realized that his writing was wrong and frowned.
‘Oh, I wrote it wrong.’
As he took out the correction fluid and painted over the note, Tony could see how he was making simple corrections with the touch pen.
Even the color of the letters was varied, making it more plausible than the notes he had written.
‘How great would it be to have such a feature on the iPad?’
after class.
During recess, Fred watched Tony giggle.
As I got closer, a familiar cartoon floated on the D-Tab3 display.
“Is that Batman?”
“yes. All comics from TC Comics and Mobile Comics are available as e-books.”
Fred swallowed once and asked.
“Can you watch other comics besides Batman comics?”
“okay? Then can we see Iron Man?”
“Of course. All the series are available as e-books.”
Iron Man has been Fred’s favorite cartoon since he was a kid.
I didn’t bring it to school because I was afraid someone would laugh at it.
As long as there was a D-Tab3, it was possible to bring it to school.
At that moment, Fred decided to refund the iPad and buy the D-Tab3.
The sales of the clothing division of Damoye Shopping Mall increased more than 20 times compared to a year ago.
The number of Dao Mall (Damoye offline shopping mall) branches across the country has also increased to more than 100.
And in recognition of that achievement, Manager Park Si-woong was promoted to general manager.
He appointed him as the head of the sales team.
Damoye Center, shopping mall division.
Team Manager Park started a briefing on the 2Q results of the shopping mall division.
“The total sales of shopping malls in the second quarter was 2.12 trillion won. Specifically, the apparel sector generated 1.3 trillion won in sales, the electronics sector generated 730 billion won, and the supermarket sector generated 90 billion won in sales. Net income was 152 billion, 99 billion and 6.7 billion, respectively.”
“The apparel sector’s sales and net profit are higher than those of electronics and supermarkets combined.”
Team Manager Park replied with a proud face.
“yes. Except for luxury clothing, most of the brands sold in Korea are already in Dao Mall. In terms of market share, it can be said that we accounted for 30% of the domestic apparel market. In addition, after Umarket lost its financial power and went out of business, there is no shopping mall that can be called our competitor, so the profit rate is good.”
“It’s amazing. One out of three clothes sold right now is sold at Damoye.”
“That’s right. Even department store brands that have endured to the end have entered our store this year, and their sales are continuing to increase. It is difficult to predict how far it will go.”
“haha. good. But it’s grown so much, what’s the problem?”
“I wouldn’t say it’s a problem, but Kang Kyung-ah is having a hard time these days.”
The apparel sector had grown so large that it was impossible to put samples of all the retailers in Dao Mall.
So, I entrusted my cousin, Kyung-a, to select sample clothes for Dao Mall.
As I expected, the clothes that Kyung-a chose were well received by consumers.
Encouraged by this, the clothing scoring system, which started as a half-hobby, greatly increased consumer satisfaction again.
Because of that, Kyung-a was also promoted to assistant manager last year.
“Are you Kyung-ah? why?”
“Since the score given by Deputy Kang is gaining a lot of trust from consumers, there is quite a difference in sales even with a difference of 0.1 point. Because of this, companies keep coming in and say it’s difficult.”
“lobby?”
“yes. At first, most of the requests were to raise the score because they would give a part of the sales outright, but after refusing all of them, they complained to me that they did not ask for anything and just delivered a gift. did.”
“haha. This guy has become a popular person in the meantime. Still, seeing that Team Manager Park knows all of these things, he doesn’t seem to have had any accidents at all, right?”
“That’s right. At that age, it might be a bit harsh, but he acted cautiously in order to avoid harming the CEO. He has good skills, and he has a good physique. I think I understand why the CEO recommended it.”
From the beginning, I never thought that Kyung-a would fall into the lobby.
How much would it cost if the lobby came in?
No matter how big it is, it won’t be in the billions.
It was too little money to live with a cousin who earns trillions of won a year.
I imagined Kyung-a’s face, who must have been terrified by asking, ‘What if my brother misunderstands me?’
“I’m glad that Kyung-a is doing well. In my opinion, the apparel sector still has plenty of room to grow. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the core part of the shopping mall, so please pay close attention to Team Manager Park in the future.”
“By the way, you seem to be a little friendly with Kang’s assistant, don’t you? Because Kyung-a is the type of person who doesn’t talk to other people well even when it’s hard.”
At the question without much thought, Team Manager Park put on a bewildered expression.
“It’s not that he’s friendly, but since Deputy Kang is the first to work in a company, he seems to have a tendency to depend on me.”
Hmm… what about this reaction?
I narrowed my eyes and looked at Team Leader Park.
He continued to speak with an even more bewildered expression on his face.
“Trust me. I have never once dealt with Deputy Kang as a selfish person.”
I’m a person who can’t lie.
It’s only after tea… I’m sorry…
“Whatever it is, I see. By the way, everything else is fine, but the online mart sales are too low. What’s the problem? It is said that the business area is limited to Seoul, but even considering that, it is a bit far from my expectations.”
“Recently, large supermarkets have lowered prices a lot. Of course, our prices are always below the mart price, but sales were lower than expected because the price difference was not large.”
“Hmm… are you keeping the price gap between us small? If that is the case, is it correct to think that the hypermarket is hardly making any profit?”
“Our sales team is of the same opinion. It is possible that some branches have already turned to the red.”
“We are still in an advantageous position, but over time the hypermarkets may come up with a different number. What they need most right now is time, so we’re going to take it away.”
“..what do you mean?”
“Build 4 more warehouses in Seoul. And let’s expand the service area to the whole country by building two in each metropolitan city and one in major cities.”
“..even if I do a rough calculation, the investment cost alone will cost more than 500 billion won, but is it okay? In addition, if we increase our warehouse and don’t sell any products, the management cost will increase, and we may turn into a loss.”
“There is a way. Get the price 10% lower than it is now.”
Manager Park gave a worried expression.
“Is it 10%? If your sales don’t grow more than 4 times what you have now, you’re going to lose money. Of course, if you lower the price, it should sell a lot, but will it sell 4 times as much?”
“However, lowering the price is limited to bundled products. For example, if one ramen is 500 won, if you buy 10 of these, you can buy it for 4,500 won instead of 5,000 won.”
In the future, a foreign warehouse-type mart called Castco, which bundles large-capacity products and sells them at a low price, will appear and become very popular with people.
From the seller’s point of view, the margin is not large, but since you can sell a lot instead, an appropriate profit is guaranteed.
It was a good sales model that could be said to be a win-win because consumers could also buy goods at a low price.
However, since a large warehouse was essential to operate in this way, we have not been able to try it until now.
The plan was to increase the level of pressure on large marts by expanding the distribution warehouse this time.
Team Leader Park clenched his fists and said.
“ah! Obviously, selling like that would be a very good way to lower the price and increase sales.”
“yes. Then the online mart will proceed like that, and today’s meeting will end with this.”
“We will report on the progress from time to time.”
“Please do that. Oh, and ask Deputy Kang to come to my office.”
“Chief. Please prepare only 10 million won as a check.”
“Do you need it right now?”
“yes. Her cousin, Kyung-a, is coming up soon, and I’m going to give it to her as pocket money.”
“..You’re giving me ten thousand won as pocket money?”
“He’s a little bit weird. Originally, I didn’t want to give pocket money, but I want to give it this time.”
The manager smiled sadly.
“Ha ha… I’ve never received more than 100,000 won in pocket money… I think I could get 10 million won if I met my cousin.”
“The manager met the boss well. How many bosses pay off the 200 million won in debt owed by subordinates?”
“..that’s right. I will prepare it right away.”
Kyung-a came up to the office immediately after Manager Lee withdrew 10 million won.
As soon as he saw me, he pouted his lips.
“Why are you calling me? I’m very busy. I had to make a sample list within an hour and spray it on the Dao Mall branch.”
“When the CEO calls, he runs to say yes, do you talk a lot? why? Is your salary too high these days? Can you cut it in half?”
The boy politely put his hands together.
“..I called you, sir.”
