Chapter 329 Becoming a prince in the United States

Abel stayed in Alexander's office for about more than an hour.

During this period, he had a working meal at the County Hall of Tarrant County.

Perhaps because of Abel, today’s work meal seemed richer.

There are fried chicken steaks, braised pork chops, biscuits with gravy, corn cakes and fruit pies, all of which are synonymous with home-cooked delicacies that Texans dream of.

Abel, who was accustomed to fine dining in New York, occasionally had such a meal after returning to his hometown.

It made him feel physically and mentally comfortable, as if the Texan genes in his body had been reawakened.

After eating, he did not leave immediately.

Accompanied by Alexander.

The father and son appeared near a square at 33-39 Southern Avenue in Fort Worth.

This square was originally named South Plaza, but was later acquired by a consortium and renamed Pacific Plaza.

The consortium that acquired this square, as well as many commercial buildings in the square, was the Pacific Supermarket Company under Abel's name.

Pacific Supermarket Company currently has only one subsidiary under its name, Pacific Mall.

The plaza on Southern Avenue in Fort Worth is the first Pacific Mall store in the United States.

The first Pacific Mall has two floors, each with an area of ​​66,453 square feet.

That is to say, the total area is a little over 130,000 square feet. When converted into square meters, it is already more than 12,000 square meters.

It is undoubtedly a large supermarket and the largest supermarket in the entire city of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.

If a large supermarket with an area of ​​more than 12,000 square meters were located in China, it would probably rank first in the country.

For example, Carrefour Supermarket in Zhongguancun, the imperial capital, once known as the largest supermarket in Asia, has a business area of ​​only 11,600 square meters.

But here in the United States, a 12,000-square-meter supermarket is indeed considered a large supermarket, but there is nothing new about it.

Because there are many supermarkets larger than it in area.

The supermarket industry in the United States can be said to be a miracle composed of modern food, daily chemical industry, and light industry.

In the larger supermarkets, you can find everything from home-grown goods, canned goods, meat and poultry, seafood, dairy products, baked goods, frozen foods, beverages (including alcoholic beverages in some states), household essentials, ready-to-eat meals (

It has a wide range of items including sushi, pastrami sandwiches, grilled chicken and other deli items.

Some supermarkets even sell cars, small speedboats, and motorboats.

Some also have pet markets and plant breeding markets inside.

According to data from the Food Marketing Institute, which is relatively authoritative in the United States, each supermarket in the United States sells an average of more than 33,000 products.

Therefore, supermarkets in the United States are very large, with the median area being 41,561 square feet.

The median area of ​​supermarkets is more than 4,000 square meters.

It can be seen from this that large supermarkets with a large area and a wide variety of products, like a small city, are very common in the United States.

Among them, the more famous ones, such as the Woodman's chain store in Kenosha, Wisconsin, occupy an area of ​​almost 245,469 square feet.

A supermarket with an area of ​​about 23,000 square meters.

But that's not the biggest thing.

Florida's Popular Supermarket Company has a supermarket with a business area of ​​45,000 square meters in Miami.

This supermarket is the largest in the United States, and probably the largest in the world.

Supermarkets in China can only be said to be shopping malls.

Supermarkets in most places in the United States are really "super" markets.

A super big market with a huge variety of goods.

Just imagine a supermarket with such a large area.

Even with the help of some mechanical tools, the number of workers it requires will undoubtedly be many.

This is also the reason why Abel wants to invest in this industry that is not very profitable.

According to data from the U.S. Department of Labor, in 2000, almost 4.8 million people worked in tens of thousands of supermarkets of all sizes across the United States.

Abel's Smith Intelligence Group has data showing that it is undoubtedly the world's No. 1 retail hegemon.

In the United States alone, 1.6 million people work for Walmart.

The second place is Kroger, a century-old American supermarket store with about 350,000 employees.

These statistics are so terrible. They are equivalent to almost 0.5% of Americans working at Walmart and 0.13% working at Kroger.

The American Volkswagen Supermarket Company, which tried to enter Texas before but did not develop very smoothly here, also has about 100,000 employees.

Excluding Wal-Mart, a listed outlier, half of the top ten retail groups in the United States are private companies that are not listed.

The controllers behind these guys are one of the masters of this country.

They control people's livelihood, spread across every state in the United States, and influence local politics and economy. They can be described as princes.

In comparison, Wal-Mart, which has more employees, is not a concern.

Why is Wal-Mart a listed company? Control is no longer in the hands of the Wal-Mart family.

It is precisely because power has been infinitely dispersed that Wal-Mart can spread throughout the United States and then go out of the United States to the world.

But these private retail giants cannot do it.

The reason is that the controlling families behind them are unwilling to hand over control.

This means that giants such as American mass supermarkets are often limited to regional development in one or two states, or at most three or four states.

It is not like a listed company like Wal-Mart, which can open stores all over the United States.

Since you are a prince, you will have territory.

It doesn't matter how you open a store in your own territory. You have to open a store in other "princes" places.

Either you accept the other party's investment, or you launch a "war" and survive the battles on all fronts.

Like American Mass Market Company, it is mainly rooted in several places near Florida and Alabama.

In the past two years, I wanted to come to Texas to develop, but I was trapped by the local snakes in Texas.

This piece of land on Southern Avenue was negotiated and built by the Volkswagen Supermarket Company at that time.

But after the construction was completed, they were stabbed in the back.

Forced by desperation, Volkswagen Supermarkets had to choose to withdraw from Fort Worth.

And the development in other Texas areas is not very smooth either.

From these things, we can see the terrifying and low-key influence these private retail giants have on various states and localities in the United States.

Let's put it this way.

In the United States,

Wall Street and the financial oligarchs control finance.

The military-industrial complex has mastered the force.

The energy complex masters energy.

These retail giants, as well as the agricultural companies that are inextricably related to them, control the people's livelihood in the United States.

In addition to these, there are also some industrial giants who control American industry.

Finance, military force, people's livelihood, energy, industry.

From these behemoths, countless political sects, large and small, were born.

They hang like a shadow over all Americans.

Too often, the elephant and the donkey are the “farce” in the White House and on Parliament Hill.

Even the commander-in-chief.

They are just tricks played by these beings to show the American people after they fight, contend, and compromise with each other.

It’s not that the United States doesn’t have a leader who can’t see this shortcoming.

Yes, the last Commander Voslo saw it.

and determined to change.

He started "eating" a capitalist every day.

Want to carry out a series of social reforms and change the national attributes of the United States.

What's the result?

The result was that he was about to lead the United States to win World War II, but on the eve of victory, he died of an inexplicable cerebral hemorrhage in the white room.

Since then, the United States has never seen a leader at the level of a statesman.
To be continued...