The scene at Nancy Supermarket in Kyoto was playing out all across the country.
The places selling Phantom Vision TVs had become a unique sight in every major city.
Never before had a new product from a Huaxia company received such an enthusiastic reception.
Even the Xiaomi Phone, which had pioneered scarcity marketing for smartphones, had only generated a frenzy online. How many people had actually been willing to line up at physical stores?
Perhaps only the launch of Apple's phones back in the day had received treatment like this.
But the two were hardly comparable. After all, Phantom Vision made televisions, an electronic product that was practically on the verge of becoming obsolete in today's society.
Almost every household still had a television, but how many young people spent their days sitting in front of one?
For the Phantom Vision Company to breathe new life into an outdated appliance was already an impressive achievement.
At the major stores, the 42-inch model, dubbed the S-Type, was the most popular choice. Anyone could see that it offered the best value and the most affordable price.
To prevent people from buying up stock and hoarding it, all the major stores had adopted the same purchase limit: one Phantom Vision TV per person. Even if someone bought the top-of-the-line 60-inch B-Type, they could not buy another, not even an S-Type.
But rules were inflexible, and people with other plans still had plenty of ways to get their hands on several Phantom Vision TVs.
Li Junze from Shanghai, for instance, was an electronics enthusiast.
He had attended the Phantom Vision Company's product launch in person.
Of course, the fact that he had flown all the way from Shanghai to Rongcheng just for that event showed that he was hardly short of money.
After listening