Chapter 492: The beautiful country

After registering for the conference, Xu Qiu and the three gathered at the entrance and exit of the conference hall.
　　Considering that neither Han Jiaying nor Wu Feifei had a bag, it was inconvenient to travel with a bunch of materials, so the three of them returned to the hotel.
　　 Then, temporarily store other materials including the MRS conference manual in the hotel room, and each person only keeps one tag to carry with them.
　　After putting things away, Han Jiaying and Wu Feifei came to Xu Qiu's room to discuss their next whereabouts.
　　 After some discussions, the three decided to find a supermarket to buy some bottled water.
　　 When going out, drinking bottled water is more at ease on the one hand, in case someone really cooks socks in a hot water bottle, on the other hand, it is also convenient to carry.
　　 Moreover, they have to change the bills of 50 and 100 dollars and some 1 dollars in change, so that they can give tips.
　　 In addition, Xu Qiu is also a little curious about whether the supermarkets in the beautiful country are different from the supermarkets in China.
　　 The map around the venue registered and distributed before can be useful.
　　 Xu Qiu unfolded the map and spread it on his big bed.
　　 Looking around, most of the places around the venue are hotels, and there are also some restaurants. The number of convenience stores is very small. It is not like domestic ones. You can find convenience stores everywhere.
　　In some places in China, there are even convenience stores clustered together, such as a family on the left and Lawson on the right.
　　 The nearest convenience store to the hotel is called "CVSStore". It is about two kilometers away from the hotel and spans several blocks.
　　 "CVS..." Xu Qiu used his mobile phone to retrieve CVS information, and said: "School girl, you can go to the Gugou map to check if there are other convenience stores nearby."
　　 "Okay." Han Jiaying responded.
Xu Qiu saw the information about CVS displayed on his mobile phone, and then discovered that CVS was actually the largest pharmaceutical retailer in the beautiful country. Originally, the CVS pharmaceutical business was the main business. He just opened a convenience store by the way. Accidentally spread the stores all over the beautiful country.
　　 This reminds Xu Qiu of the phenomenon that
brands making mobile phones are now making cars one after another.
Often it is not the second and third in this industry that defeats the leader of an industry, but other cross-border companies.
　　 At this time, the school girl finished searching the surrounding convenience stores, she shook her head helplessly: "CVS is the nearest convenience store, and another convenience store is four kilometers away from here."
　　 "Hmm..." Xu Qiu made a decision: "Then CVS, let's go."
　　 The three people left the hotel. It was near noon, and the sun outside was already very big.
　　 Xu Qiu carrying a backpack, and Han Jiaying holding a parasol, Wu Feifei holding another parasol, they checked the map while walking towards the CVS convenience store.
　　 After a few steps, they ran into the first intersection. Xu Qiu and the others were going from south to north. At this time, it happened to be a red light.
　　 There are also traffic lights in the beautiful country, there is no countdown number on it, and the style is not much different from the domestic one.
　　 In addition, there are white lights specially for passers-by to cross the road. There are two states of red light and white light. The style is the shape of a palm, the red light stops, and the white light runs.
　　 Xu Qiu found that there was a controller in front of the crosswalk next to it, with a sign on it:
　　 "You can manually control the changes of the traffic lights. Press the button to change the signal lights in the orthogonal direction from green to red."
　　 Seeing this, Xu Qiu tried to press the button.
　　In less than three seconds, the traffic lights in the east-west direction changed from green to red, and the red and white lights for pedestrians in the north-south direction changed from red to white.
　　 At the same time, the red and white lights also made a "da da da da" sound, which seemed to urge people to pass quickly.
　　 It seems that it works.
However, it is said that this thing is similar to the door close button of an elevator. It belongs to Schrodinger's button. The buttons in some places can work. For example, when Xu Qiu presses it here, and some places are broken, it can only play a comforting role. .
　　 The three of them crossed the intersection and moved forward for a few minutes. Han Jiaying suddenly exclaimed: "Brother, look at the small yellow car over there~"
　　 "Small yellow car?" Xu Qiu followed the instructions of the school girl and looked over and found that there were indeed two small yellow cars, and the style was almost the same as that of the small yellow cars put on campus in China.
　　 Obviously, it is impossible for someone to cross the Pacific Ocean to ride the small yellow car to a beautiful country, but the small yellow car company specially put it here.
　　 After the three people approached, Xu Qiu tried to scan the code with domestic software, and found that the domestic software was also compatible.
try{mad1('gad2');}catch(ex){}　　 However, when they saw the price, they were all dumbfounded. They actually cost a dollar for a ride!
　　 The money from a beautiful country is so easy to make.
　　 You need to know, now that the domestic small yellow car has just gotten financing out of the campus, the price has only risen from fifty cents to one yuan, and it costs one dollar once.
　　 There is no harm without contrast.
　　 After using the bicycle service of 50 cents a time, Xu Qiu felt that it was a bit expensive to increase to one. Now the price of the same service in the beautiful country has increased by nearly seven times.
　　 Even if Xu Qiu and the others are not short of the money, they still can't accept it.
　　 So, the three of them continued to walk...
　　 The streets along the way are still relatively clean, and there are no homeless people living on the streets. Maybe this is a place with better public security, plus it is because of the day.
　　 It's hard to say at night, anyway, Xu Qiu decided not to go out after eight o'clock in the evening.
　　 Moreover, Phoenix is ​​not Las Vegas. Looking at the surrounding area, apart from the fact that there are more hotels, other supporting facilities are probably not as good as second-tier cities in China. There is no nightlife.
　　 Among the pedestrians around, half of them are hanging the MRS conference tag, and some do not have the tag on them, but Xu Qiu infers that many of them are also participants, and the characteristics of scientific researchers are sometimes more obvious.
　　 Following the map navigation, the three of them walked for nearly 20 minutes, finally arrived at CVS and walked in.
　　 Although CVS is nominally dominated by pharmacies, looking at it, the convenience store is very large. It is estimated that it covers an area of ​​more than 500 square meters. The area of ​​the pharmacy is about 100-200 square meters. It is in a corner inside the convenience store.
　　 Wu Feifei acted alone. She received the task of purchasing for her family, saying that she was looking for a vitamin jelly for health care.
　　 Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying acted together, because they were relatively low-key and didn't hype about going to a beautiful country, so they didn't receive the task of purchasing agents, so they walked around more easily.
　　 The product classification here is very detailed. There is a tag on the top of each shelf to indicate the category of the product.
　　 sells a wide variety of things, including a variety of drinks, food, maternal and child products, toys, small luxury items, such as lipsticks and so on.
For the price of 　　, except for some fruits, other commodities are cheaper than the same number of domestic soft coins if calculated at US dollars.
　　 For example, a bottle of Happy House Water is 0.99 US dollars, 24 bottles is 11.99 US dollars, domestic, at least 2.5 times.
　　 2 liters of Fat House Happy Water, 1 bottle is 1.99 US dollars, and 4 bottles of special offer are 4.99 US dollars.
　　 The cheapest mineral water, 1 bottle is 0.5 dollars, 24 bottles is 8.49 dollars.
　　 In addition, there are also souvenirs, including acrylic hang tags, metal hang tags, and T-shirts with various patterns, etc.
　　 Among them, T-shirt clothes are on sale, $5 per piece and three pieces of $9.9 USD.
　　 "Three pieces of 9.9 dollars, it's a good deal." Han Jiaying stopped and touched the fabric with her hands. It felt okay, so she turned to ask Xu Qiu's opinion: "Brother, should we buy three pieces?"
　　 "Then buy it," Xu Qiu smiled and nodded: "It happens to be the three of us as a souvenir."
　　 "Okay." Han Jiaying began to carefully select styles.
A few minutes later, the school girl picked two T-shirts, one white and one black, printed with the same Phoenix pattern, which happened to be the couple clothes for her and Xu Qiu. In addition, she also helped Wu Feifei to choose the print. There is a T-shirt with a dog head pattern.
　　 A couple with a dog, very recognizable.
　　 After walking around, the two took three T-shirts, mainly because there was nothing to buy other than water.
　　 is like daily necessities, including toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, shower gel, conditioner, shower cap, soap, razor, etc. The hotel provides all disposable items and can be replaced every day.
　　 If you didn't just see this T-shirt, and the price is right, they probably won't buy it specially.
　　 Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying found Wu Feifei to gather.
　　 Han Jiaying asked: "Sister Wu Feifei, have you found that kind of vitamin gum?"
　　 Wu Feifei shook her head: "I didn't find it. I guess I have to go to a special pharmacy to buy it. Let's talk about it next time."
　　 Xu Qiu showed the patterns on the three T-shirts: "Look, we bought them for you, do you like them."
　　Wu Feifei understood in a second, and Xu Qiu glanced in vain: "Let's go, let's buy water."
　　 In the end, the three bought a box of 24 bottles of mineral water, $8.49, three T-shirts, $9.9, and a 2 liter bottle of Fat House Happy Water, $1.99.
try{mad1('gad2');}catch(ex){}　　 CVS convenience store has a manual checkout channel, but there is only one channel, and the queue is relatively long, and there are three self-checkout machines.
　　 Xu Qiu and the others chose the self-checkout machine in order to save trouble, put the goods on it, scan the code, and then pay in cash, the machine will automatically find change.
　　 There are no security guards around the self-checkout machine, only a few cameras next to it.
　　 In China, there is also a payment company piloting unmanned supermarkets and unmanned hotels in big cities, but it is found to be very difficult to implement.
　　 On the one hand, it is easy to lose things. On the other hand, it is mainly because the prices of goods sold in unmanned supermarkets are even more expensive than ordinary convenience stores.
The reason is probably because the domestic labor force is relatively cheap. If you ask a clerk, you only need to pay a few thousand dollars a month, and if you upgrade various equipment that is not sold, you may have to increase by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands in the early stage. Investment, and later maintenance costs will be higher than the cost of hiring labor.
On the other hand, in a beautiful country, the labor cost is high. If you hire a clerk, you will pay thousands of dollars a month, but it is thousands of dollars. The absolute cost of upgrading unmanned equipment and equipment maintenance is almost the same. After converting the exchange rate, no one The cost of sales is lower than the cost of someone selling, and the company will naturally tend to promote unmanned sales.
Moreover, the personal credit system in the beautiful country is more complete, and the cost of dishonesty is very high, which will affect employment, promotion, renting, leasing, industrial and commercial registration, etc., and the record of dishonesty will be retained for many years, which leads to people Will tend not to be greedy for petty gains and cause one's trust, and it is also beneficial to the normal operation of unmanned sales.
　　 Xu Qiufen checked out three times and got some one-dollar bills and some cent coins.
　　 In addition, the price of the goods here is not tax-added, and an additional 10% tax is required at the time of checkout.
After 　　 paid the bill, Xu Qiu collected the change, then took apart the bottled water and put it in his backpack. Feifei Wu held a 2-liter Coke and Han Jiaying carried three T-shirts, and the three returned to the hotel together.
　　 After arriving at the hotel lobby, Xu Qiu first went to the free drink supply point there and drank a glass of lemonade.
　　 Then, Xu Qiu found that the lemonade here was ice cubes, it was very cool, especially to cool off the heat, so he took another drink, and Amway gave Wu Feifei and Han Jiaying and asked them to each have a glass.
　　 This is also a difference between domestic and foreign. Generally, people in China, especially the previous generation, don't like to let children drink ice water, and they don't like to let children drink beverages with other things, and they prefer boiled water.
　　 And foreigners prefer to drink iced water, as well as tasteful water with other things added, such as lemonade, coffee, or alcohol, and they rarely provide plain water without anything added. UU reading www. uukanshu. com
　　 After that, the three of them stored the things in the hotel and came out again, preparing to settle the lunch.
　　 They also saw some shops on the road before, such as pizzerias, doughnut shops, sandwich shops, coffee shops, bars and so on.
　　 are some of the chain brands that can be seen in China, such as "PizzaHut" and "Subway", and a few are local specialty brands, such as "DowntownPizzaLounge" and so on.
　　 In addition to the door face shop, there is also a movable dining car in the beautiful country movie over the venue. Now it is the meal point, it is estimated that it will be open for business.
　　 After discussion, the three of them finally decided to start with cheap meals and discover the "Shaxian snacks" of the beautiful country.
　　The first shop I chose was a doughnut shop called "AngkorDonut", located between the hotel and the CVS convenience store, and it was only a ten-minute walk away.
　　 The three people came to the store and saw a large donut decoration outside the house, and a square chimney, occasionally smoke would be emitted.
　　 walked into the store, there were three shop assistants, one was a fat black woman, one was a fat white woman, and a little white brother.
　　 They were chatting happily while working, and occasionally they had physical contact. It seemed that two fat women were beating the white brother.
　　 The white guy seems to enjoy it too...
　　PS: The previous hotel name was wrong. Hyatt's translation name should be Hyatt. I wrote it as Hilton, but it should not have a big impact on reading. After that, I wrote it in accordance with Hilton.