Nine Hundred and Ninety First, Send You a Thunderbolt

"Well, that's good, but you have to watch this line closely for me."

Xiao Feng nodded to Pablo and said, Pablo nodded.

At this time, Helen also just came down from the upstairs. Xiao Feng said that she had business to discuss before, but she never came down.

At this time, I felt hungry and came down to find something to eat.

Xiao Feng looked at the weather outside, and simply talked to Helen.

"The weather outside is nice today, so let's go out and eat."

Helen naturally nodded in agreement, and the two got into the car and went straight out of the street.

A small commercial area was soon found near a residential area...

The layout of cities and towns in the United States is very different from that in China.

Cities in the United States are generally divided into downtowns and residential areas.

The city center of every city is a bustling scene full of tall buildings.

Such places are generally the most prosperous areas in the city.

Various companies, commercial buildings, shopping malls, restaurants, and movie theaters are also gathered here.

But such a place looks glamorous during the day, but once it's night, it's hard to say.

The city center of most cities has a different scene at night.

Homeless people are everywhere, young people gather, and it can even be said to be the most dangerous place.

The reason for this is that the poor have no money and cannot afford a car.

Therefore, in order to work nearby, they can only choose to live in a place relatively close to the city center.

As for the homeless, because the city center is bustling, they can easily get food here during the day.

So they will also choose to live near the city center.

But they dare not roam the streets during the day, because they will be expelled by the police.

But at night, all these homeless people come out.

And except for a few blocks that the police pay more attention to, almost other places are dominated by homeless people and gangsters.

For where there are poor and vagabonds, there will be evil.

So many people know that in the city center of the United States, there are generally two worlds during the day and at night.

The rich, on the other hand, choose to live in the outer suburbs.

Because they have a car, they can drive to and from get off work every day.

That's why they don't live in poor neighborhoods near the city center, where the law and order situation is very poor.

Moreover, the land in the outer suburbs is large, so they can live in a big house.

So this is exactly the opposite of domestic cities, where the city center is generally the most prosperous, and rich people also like to live in the city center.

After all, it is convenient to do everything here, but poor people live in the outer suburbs and squeeze the subway to work every day.

Of course, this is mainly related to the ban on guns in the country and the good social security.

This is also the reason why many Chinese, after arriving in the United States, will have the impression that the United States is a big rural area.

It turns out that in American cities, there are so many high-rise buildings outside the city center, and all other places are full of one-story houses?

And in the city center, at night, heaven turns into hell, doesn't it?

In addition, why is the public transportation in the United States so bad?

There are few lines, and the interval between them is still long.

why?

It is because the rich people living in the outer suburbs do not want the poor to flow too much into their neighborhoods!

Those poor people who live in the city center generally don't have a car, so they can only choose bicycles or take public transportation to get around.

Without too many buses and lines, they can't travel to the wealthy neighborhoods in the outer suburbs.

However, rich people living in the outer suburbs also have certain inconveniences, such as shopping.

Therefore, in general, every neighborhood where rich people live will be equipped with a small commercial center nearby.

It is a small square with a small shopping mall, gas station, cinema and so on.

For example, the small business center that Xiao Feng and Helen came to this time, although it is not big, has everything inside.

Xiao Feng took Helen to find a restaurant, had a simple breakfast, and then went straight into a nearby Vogelin.

This is another important purpose of Xiao Feng coming out today.

Just to check out this pharmacy.

About ten years ago, Voegelin embarked on a path of crazy expansion.

By 2015, their expansion reached a peak.

At that time, because of their good relationship with ***, they participated behind the scenes in promoting the promotion and implementation of ***'s medical reform policy.

And successfully obtained more than 30% of the country's medical prescription rights.

Voegelin was full of ambition at that time, and they launched a plan.

That is, in every large residential area in the United States, a Voegelin drugstore must be opened within five miles.

So now almost every supporting commercial area near every residential area can find Vogreen's chain stores.

After Xiao Feng and the others entered this chain pharmacy, he was shocked after only one glance.

What the hell is this pharmacy? Or a supermarket?

Because when he entered the store, he realized that almost everything was sold here.

Originally, he thought that this pharmacy would be the same as domestic pharmacies, specializing in selling medicines.

But when I went inside, I found that there were more than just medicines for sale here.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a coffee shop, and there was actually a manicure and hair coloring service next to it. The most exaggerated thing was that there was a sushi restaurant next to it.

Going further into the store, the shelves are filled with all kinds of products.

From daily necessities to fruits and vegetables, there is everything here.

This is not a pharmacy, this is simply a supermarket!

"WTF? Is that what this store does?"

Looking at the display in the store, Xiao Feng felt like he was going to scold his mother.

If it wasn't for the last row in the store, there was indeed a wall of medicines, and there were a few pharmacists beside them.

He couldn't believe it, but he walked into a pharmacy.

At this time, Pablo, who accompanied him to inspect the pharmacy, had no choice but to come out and explain.

"Boss, this is indeed Voegelin's business model."

"In fact, they did it years ago."

"Why do you do this?"

Xiao Feng couldn't help asking, and Pablo immediately explained to Xiao Feng.

It turns out that American pharmacies are really different from those in China.

In fact, before Vogreen's massive expansion, the largest drugstore chain in the United States was Wal-Mart.

That's right, it's the Wal-Mart that does the supermarket.

Many Wal-Mart stores have drug counters, so they are the largest chain drugstores in the United States.

At that time, Voegelin did exactly what Xiao Feng thought, and only sold medicines.

But at that time Voegelin, with a large number of drug prescriptions in his hands, was doing well.

Later, Voegelin found out that this is not possible, since you Wal-Mart can sell medicines.

Then why can't our pharmacies sell department stores?

So they also started to diversify their business, not only buying department stores in the store, but also buying sushi, sashimi and coffee.

And wait until today, buy coffee drinks sushi sashimi, these non-drug sales.

It has already accounted for 36% of the pharmacy's revenue.

Xiao Feng was also speechless when he heard the data reported by Pablo.

It turns out that all pharmacies in the United States play like this!

The diversity of people is the real diversity!

"But since they did such a good job, why do they still lose money?"

Xiao Feng asked Pablo again, so Pablo explained to him again.

"In the past, a large part of Voegelin's income came from selling health care products and shampoo."

"But then Amazon got involved and they bought an online pharmacy."

"Relying on its own big business, Amazon tried to subsidize it on a large scale, so it grabbed a lot of business in toiletries and health care products from physical pharmacies."

"Coupled with the many prescription drugs in Voegelin's hands, the patent protection has expired. Competitors have put generic drugs on the shelves."

"That led to a significant reduction in Voegelin's profits."

"The most important reason is that Voegelin borrowed heavily to expand in the past two years."

"This has led to great financial pressure on them, with loans of more than 10 billion yuan, causing them to pay a huge amount of interest every year."

"And these interests eat up all their profits."

"In fact, if you just look at the main income, they are still quite healthy."

After listening to Pablo's report, Xiao Feng basically had a bottom line in his mind.

For Voegelin, he already has his own judgment.

"Well, good, I see."

After leaving the pharmacy, Xiao Feng and Helen went back to the villa directly.

But today they don't plan to stay in Hallandell.

Xiao Feng and Helen boarded the plane and flew directly to San Francisco.

Although Hallandale's beach is nice, Xiao Feng is not here for vacation after all.

The plane landed at San Francisco Airport, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

After leaving the airport, the two went straight back to the winery, and Helen pushed the tablet in front of Xiao Feng.

"An accident happened to Flagship Capital."

Xiao Feng raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What's going on?"

"Haha, it's a project they invested in, and it's preparing to go public as a 100X company. It is said that there is data falsification."

"Currently, the US Securities Regulatory Commission has stepped in and launched an investigation."

Helen explained to Xiao Feng with a smile.

Xiao Feng took the tablet from her hand.

The above is a tweet from an independent reporter in New York just now.

It introduces the situation of these 100X companies in detail.

This is a gene sequencing biotechnology company that mainly undertakes gene sequencing outsourcing projects of major pharmaceutical companies.

Help major pharmaceutical companies to complete the research and development of targeted drugs.

Because of some unique technologies, flagship capital led the investment in this project a few years ago.

At present, the C round of financing has been completed, and the asset scale has reached 3.7 billion US dollars.

Not long ago, I just submitted materials to several banks and prepared for IPO.

Now that such a big melon has burst out, it will be a lot of fun.

The investors must be in a hurry at this time, and Flagship Capital must be even more panicked.

If this matter is not handled properly, they will be in great trouble.

At that time, just looking for investment institutions to sue them for compensation will be able to strip them of their skins.

Seeing this, Xiao Feng's heart suddenly moved, and he remembered what Eric had said to himself before.

He will give himself a gift!

Could it be this one?

Hey! Don't tell me, this guy really has ideas.

Who would have thought that his gift would be a thunderbolt!