The peers in Bright Pearl City joined forces to encircle and suppress Wanlong Supermarket, which indeed brought quite a lot of trouble to the supermarket.
The most direct manifestation was that the most frequently asked question from customers was why the same products were cheaper at other places.
For a while, all branches of Wanlong Supermarket felt the pressure from their peers. Especially the front - line clerks had to answer almost the same questions countless times every day.
They were extremely annoyed!
Naturally, these situations were reported to Liu Yutong.
After getting a general understanding of the situation, Liu Yutong made a prompt decision and directly asked Zhao Tianyi to take action.
Soon, the Wanlong Association started to close in on their targets. A group of fake - product fighters previously sent out began to carry out a just sanctions on each of the peer supermarkets.
These fake - product fighters had clear targets. They purposefully bought near - expired products, products that failed quality tests, and even some suspected counterfeit goods on the shelves of those peer supermarkets due to management negligence.
This had been done before, and all the evidence had been collected.
First, they filed a lawsuit in the court, then reported the issues to the market regulatory department, and finally, they went to the entrances of the involved supermarkets with evidence and the media to conduct legal - knowledge publicity.
Although the Consumer Rights Protection Law in this era was not yet perfect, as long as the evidence was conclusive and they insisted on safeguarding their rights, consumers still had a great chance of getting three - or even ten - fold compensation.
Ten - fold compensation!
This was the core highlight of the Wanlong Association's publicity.
Since they had completed the case - filing and testing, they clearly knew which products in which supermarkets had problems. Then, they used the legal - knowledge publicity to tell the on - lookers that the products they exposed had problems and that there was a chance to get ten - fold compensation.
When those on - lookers heard about this great opportunity, that they could get ten - fold compensation for buying expired or sub - standard products, a group of them rushed to snap up the problematic products before the supermarkets could react and remove them from the shelves, especially those with quality and counterfeiting issues.
After buying, they immediately demanded compensation.
Now, those peer supermarkets were in an uproar, and the supermarket employees were in a complete mess. They were far more distressed than the clerks of Wanlong Supermarket.
The employees of Wanlong Supermarket only had to patiently explain why their products were a bit more expensive.
However, those peer - supermarket employees had to deal with the headache of compensation, which was much more difficult than explaining the price issue.
Some supermarkets even wanted to use security guards to drive away these so - called "malicious fake - product fighters", but they soon found it was completely unfeasible.
Because the people from the Wanlong Association would stand in front of the rights - defending customers and shout, "The Wanlong Association will defend the rights and interests of all consumers to the death. Let's see who dares to make a move!"
Seeing this situation, those security guards didn't dare to drive the people away.
They were just security guards, while the others were well - connected people in society!
As the incident continued to ferment and the media got involved, with extensive online and offline publicity, those supermarkets were instantly pushed into the spotlight.
Not only was their store business greatly affected, but they even had to close their stores and face huge compensation claims.
Taking this opportunity, Wanlong Supermarket directly stepped up its offensive.
It took out eleven Wuling Hongguang minivans and two five - seat sedans worth more than a hundred thousand yuan each, one black and one white, as grand prizes for the event.
These grand prizes could actually be considered as friendly sponsorships from the peer supermarkets because the compensation claimed by the fake - product fighting team of the Wanlong Association far exceeded the value of these cars.
So it was not wrong to say they were sponsored by the peers. Anyway, it didn't hurt at all to give away these cars.
Soon, these prizes were arranged at each store.
The eleven Wuling Hongguang minivans were the fixed grand prizes for each branch, while the two sedans were randomly distributed. Customers could win them by shopping and participating in the lucky draw at any store.
This way, it could avoid the situation where after the first - prize in one store was won, people would stop shopping there and flock to other stores.
What if the top - prize sedan worth more than a hundred thousand yuan was in this store?
Wanlong Supermarket's generous move of giving away more than a dozen cars was definitely the first in the history of supermarkets in Bright Pearl City.
On the day the promotional posters were put up, all branches of Wanlong Supermarket were packed!
Some people even changed several stores to shop in one day to increase their chances of winning, and some even went to the county - level branches to shop.
Of course, some people had ulterior motives.
For example, since Wanlong Supermarket promised a seven - day no - reason return and refund policy, some people deliberately took advantage of this loophole. They would first shop, then return the goods for a refund, and then use the receipts to participate in the lucky draw.
Of course, this situation was also anticipated by Wanlong Supermarket. Soon, the supermarket posted an announcement.
This kind of announcement had legal effect.
The general content was that if you wanted to participate in the lucky draw, once you joined the event, it meant you agreed to give up the right of no - reason return for this purchase.
The supermarket still supported returns and exchanges for customers whose products had real quality problems or other objective issues. It just didn't support the seven - day no - reason return policy.
Of course, those people would still try to be smart. They thought that if there was no quality problem, they could create one artificially to get a refund.
If they really did that, they would be completely wrong.
What awaited them would be a powerful combination of the Wanlong Association and Tianyi Law Firm.
As this large - scale lucky - draw event was fully launched, Wanlong Supermarket once again crushed its peers with an overwhelming advantage.
This business war was almost like an announcement.
In Bright Pearl City, if anyone dared to go head - to - head with Wanlong Supermarket, there was only one outcome: a dead end.
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Apart from those who tried to cheat in the lucky draw, the very attractive rewards of Wanlong Supermarket also caught the eyes of some ill - intentioned people.
Yao Qianshan, the deputy general manager of Wanlong Supermarket who was on an inspection tour, was targeted.
The one who targeted her was her former fiancé. Even though she had returned the engagement gifts, gold jewelry and all, he still wouldn't let it go and would pester her from time to time.
Especially after he learned that Wanlong Supermarket was giving away cars in the event, he came even more frequently.
Yao Qianshan had just arrived at the parking lot and was about to drive to the next store for an inspection.
Suddenly, a figure rushed out and blocked her car.
"Qianshan! I've finally waited for you!"
Yao Qianshan stopped in her tracks. After seeing who it was, her brows instantly furrowed.
The person was her former fiancé, Song Hui.
Song Hui was wearing an expensive but somewhat gaudily - matched suit. His hair was slicked back, shiny with hair oil. There was a so - called "affectionate" smile on his face, and he was holding a bunch of blue roses in his hand.
"Qianshan, this is for you."
"Get out of the way!" Yao Qianshan didn't even bother to look at him and directly tried to drive him away.
"Qianshan, don't be like this."
Instead of getting out of the way, Song Hui stepped forward and tried to force the flowers on her, while saying disgusting things.
"Look, I still remember you like blue roses. I know I was wrong before, but I've really changed..."
Yao Qianshan directly interrupted him and emphasized again, "Song Hui, I'll say it one last time. It's long over between us. We have nothing to do with each other. Please leave right away and stop disturbing my work. Otherwise, I'll call someone!"
The smile on Song Hui's face instantly froze and slowly distorted. He angrily cursed, "Yao Qianshan, don't be ungrateful! Do you think you're so great just because you're a deputy general manager now?!"
"I'm telling you, do you think you can get rid of me so easily? No way! I've wasted a whole three years of my youth on you. Who's going to compensate me for this loss?!"
Yao Qianshan endured the disgust in her heart and asked, "What on earth do you want?!"
"What I want is very simple."
Song Hui directly showed his true nature and shamelessly stated his condition, "You have to compensate me for the youth I've wasted on you in these three years. Your supermarket is giving away a car, right? Give me that black one as compensation, and I'll stop pestering you!"
