Quick Pass: Start a grocery store

Chapter 473. 473. The Ocean: Opportunity

To be precise, instead of selling [-] liters of fresh water for [-] pearls, only [-] liters of fresh water were sold and [-] pearls were harvested.

This result is unacceptable to the nobles.

You must know that in order to save this batch of fresh water, he robbed it for several days, and then spent [-] pearls to buy five water purifiers, and then paid someone to work continuously for two days. With this batch of fresh water.

I thought that part of the cost could be recovered, but who would have thought that it would not be sold at all!

They can't even recover the cost of buying a water purifier, so they still want to make money?
Just a crazy dream!
This situation has appeared in almost every noble family who bought a water purifier.

When they find out that their reality is completely different from their imagination, they feel bad.

Five hundred pearls for a water purifier, this is not a cheap price.

If it is a noble like You Xin who has a fleet of ships, even if she can't sell fresh water, she can still be self-sufficient and save the cost of materials for sailing.

But the kind of aristocrats who make money by opening shops are different.

The main purpose of them buying water purifiers is to make fresh water and then sell it to make money. It is impossible for them to supply free fresh water to the people around them or the staff in the store.

Even if they did this, the number of staff in the store was nothing compared to the casual number of hundreds or thousands of crew members, and they simply couldn't consume so much fresh water.

They thought of many reasons, but none of them thought of lowering the price.

Fresh water resources are important, but before there is no water purifier, everyone can still live a normal life, which proves that the previous fresh water production is sufficient, and now the fresh water produced by the water purifier is not necessary.

Under such circumstances, fresh water overflow is inevitable.

Just like if there are only [-] people on the island, even if fresh water is their necessary material, but [-] people are [-] people, and their daily demand will never exceed [-] parts of water.

This is something that cannot be changed.

In other words, the 'one hundred people' here are actually the 'people who are willing to buy fresh water'.

If there are a thousand people who are willing to buy fresh water at the price of 1 pearl = 2 liters, then no matter how much water these nobles produce, they can only sell a thousand copies of fresh water every day.

This thousand shares is the upper limit of the fresh water market, and all the nobles are fighting for this share, so everyone can only get a part of it.

At this time, the factor limiting their profit is not the quantity of goods, but the quantity of consumers.

If nobles want to make more money, what they need to do is not to increase the amount of fresh water, but to expand the upper limit of market demand.

For example, fresh water is sold at the price of 1 pearl = 2.5 liters or even 3 liters.

At this time, the number of people willing to buy may increase to 500 or even 2000.

If the market cap is increased, the nobles will earn more, and they can even monopolize the market.

Because only the aristocrats who have reduced prices are eligible to compete, and consumers who do not choose the aristocrats who have reduced prices will not choose at all.

The above information can be summed up in two words - internal volume.

Let these nobles roll with each other.

The more you roll, the bigger the market, the more you earn, the lower the price, and the more water ordinary people can drink...

This is a benign involution.

But it's not good to keep rolling, so the price of fresh water will eventually stabilize at the limit where a noble can make money, but ordinary people can also afford water.

Su Mo predicted that the market price of fresh water would stabilize at about 1 pearl = 5 liters or 6 liters.

But this is the price after stabilization.

Before that, the fresh water market will face a certain collapse due to the competition among the nobles, and there will be 1 pearl = 7 liters, 8 liters, 9 liters or even lower prices.

But this is all temporary, after all, water purifiers need to consume energy.

An energy body with ten pearls can produce one hundred liters of fresh water, which means that once the price is lower than 1 pearl = 10 liters of fresh water, the nobles will lose money.

What's more, they still need to spend manpower to transport seawater, clean up salt crystals, and make water containers... so the actual cost will increase.

1 pearl = 5 liters is basically the final price in the market, and there will not be much fluctuation.

In this plane, a person consumes at least one liter of fresh water per day.

According to the previous price, everyone spent about a dozen pearls on fresh water a month, but their monthly income was only a dozen or twenty pearls.

Unless I occasionally get some fresh water through distillation, there are not many pearls left every month.

But once the water purifier appears and the fresh water market stabilizes, they won't spend a lot of money even if they drink it every day.

But this is all in the future. The current nobles are not conscious of lowering prices. Asking them to lower prices is almost as painful as asking them to cut off their own flesh.

Unless there is an opportunity...

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"Xiaoyou, Xiaoyou! Have you run out of fresh water in your house?" Ah Shan knocked on the door of the next door, with a look of anxiety and excitement on her face.

Seeing that she was in such a hurry, Ah Shan thought something was wrong, so she quickly put down the half-dried fishing net in her hand, then walked to the door, opened the door and replied, "Not yet, probably enough for a day."

Xiaoyou looked at the matter of asking about fresh water as soon as she arrived, and thought it was because she had no water to drink, so she asked again: "Is your house short of water? I can give you some first."

Ah Shan shook her head frantically, "No no no, there is no shortage of water, I just bought water!"

Because she was standing at the door just now, her lower body was covered by the fence, so Xiaoyou didn't see that she was actually holding two containers filled with water, which seemed to contain about six liters.

Xiaoyou pointed to something in her hand in surprise, "Why did you buy so much water?"

Under normal circumstances, everyone buys some and uses some. It is really uncommon to buy so much at once like Ah Shan.

"I'm about to talk about this!" Shan shook the container in her hand, "I just went to buy water, and I heard that a fresh water store has reduced the price today, and one pearl can buy three liters of water!"

At first, Ah Shan thought it was fake, but she was also going to buy water, so she planned to stop by to have a look.

Anyway, where to buy not always buy.

What if?
It turned out that such a 'what if' was actually true!
In this store, one pearl can actually buy three liters of water!

After confirming that the quality of the fresh water was fine, Ah Shan bought six liters for two pearls without hesitation, and rushed back to inform others of the news after buying it.

Xiaoyou was one of the people she notified.

"Is there such a thing?"

(End of this chapter)