Chapter 759 - 778: The Gourmet Appraisal Company Might Lose It All by Paving the Way for Another
Chapter 759: Chapter 778: The Gourmet Appraisal Company Might Lose It All by Paving the Way for Another
"What kind of event...? It’s a secret, so I can’t say for now."
"Yes, that’s right. It’s related to food."
"I’m the one spearheading it, so it has to do with me. It’s not a Taobao Food event, but it might be held on Taobao Food. Want a hint?"
Jiang Qiuqiu: "The hint is ’portable delicacies.’"
Portable. Delicacies.
She glanced at the billions of viewers in her stream.
’Among this massive crowd, they must be watching me.’ she thought.
’They wanted to beat me to the punch. Now they’re afraid I’ll beat *them*. They must be panicking.’
’Go on, panic. The more you panic, the better things will turn out for me.’
The hint was too abstract for her audience to figure out, and everyone started begging Qiuqiu for another one.
"That’s it for hints! It’s okay if you can’t guess. The secret will be revealed soon!"
"Goodnight, everyone! Thanks for hanging out with me for so long today. I’m going to get some rest!" She smiled as she ended the stream, then immediately opened her team’s chat group.
[Jiang Qiuqiu]: That should do it. If our rivals want to preemptively capture the market, they should launch officially tomorrow or the day after.
It’s a portable, canned delicacy, in a format that imitates Nutrient Liquid. But even as an imitation, a product like this is unprecedented—a true first of its kind.
Besides, Nutrient Liquid sells so well. It’s a no-brainer that the crab roe sauce won’t sell poorly either.
[Wanxing]: It’s still a shame to let our rivals be the first to market.
[Wanxing]: It’s on us for being a step behind. Our production license was just approved today. We’re doing an emergency hiring blitz, but it’ll still be three to five days before we can start official production.
[Qian Xingxing]: Yeah, it really would have been better if we were first.
[Mei Lin]: Is being first that special?
[Wanxing]: Yes. It’s very special.
[Jiang Qiuqiu]: That’s not necessarily true. The biggest AI company today wasn’t the first to make AI. Letting them go first is actually a good thing for us.
[Jiang Qiuqiu]: After all, this ’sauce’ is a completely new type of product.
As the first company to introduce this kind of sauce, the Delicious Appreciation Company will have to spend a fortune on advertising—hiring influencers, renting ad space, all sorts of promotions.
Then everyone will rush to buy it and discover that the crab roe sauce is actually delicious!
The masses will flock to it.
[Mei Lin]: And then the Delicious Appreciation Company will make a killing? #furious#
[Wanxing]: No.
[Jiang Qiuqiu]: And then, the Delicious Appreciation Company will run into a production bottleneck due to their insufficient supply of raw crab. They won’t be able to produce more crab roe sauce for a while and will probably have to resort to a pre-order system or something similar.
And at that moment—
[Wanxing]: That’s when we make our entrance.
Picture this.
Delicious Appreciation Company: We sell sauce.
The Public: What’s a sauce?
Delicious Appreciation Company: *Throws money at ads!*
The Public: Oh! (Now we know what a sauce is.)
The Company: More ad spending! Hire influencers! Hire famous chefs!
The Public: ! (We suddenly want to buy it!)
The Company: Keep spending, spending, spending big!
The Public: Buy! Buy! We want to buy!
And then, the Delicious Appreciation Company sells out completely.
The Public: AHHHHH, why is the sauce sold out already when I tried to buy it?!
Everyone around me keeps saying how delicious it is! I’m so curious!
Delicious Appreciation Company: (Panicked but also excited) ’Are we about to make a fortune? Are we about to go viral? With so many orders, are we going to become an epoch-making food company? We—’
Taobao Food bursts onto the scene.
"Hey friend, still waiting? Looking to buy some sauce? Why not check out the Gugu Meat Sauce from the number one interstellar food streamer, Jiang Qiuqiu?"
The Public: !
Delicious Appreciation Company: !
Verdict: The Delicious Appreciation Company is left with neither customers nor cash.
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And that was why Jiang Qiuqiu had to force her rival to launch their product as soon as possible.