The two of them discussed choosing a shop.

The mall is quite large, many floors are still empty, and the original developer went bankrupt in the 70s due to the economic crisis, and the investment was delayed.

In 1980, after a bank auction, another department store chain took over and continued to build it, but due to the high rent, it did not attract many investors to open the store, and its popularity was tepid.

Like a customer, strolling from the first floor to the fourth floor, and then came to the first floor again, Su Mu and Boss Han coincidentally took a fancy to a large area of shops on the street, located next to the parking lot, but unfortunately the area is a little smaller, several shops add up to about seven or eight hundred square meters, and the rent for a year is as high as 180,000 US dollars, Boss Han feels that the area is large enough, but Su Mu is not satisfied at all, the small area means that there is not much goods, and at this moment persuaded Boss Han Yu to say:

"Now that we have decided to invest, we should do a good job, such a large area is more like a large convenience store, you can't put too many things, just the vegetable and fruit sales area, you have to occupy half of the position here, how many products can be placed in the remaining area?

We have to cultivate the awareness of our customers that they can buy what they want as long as they come to our supermarket, so that they will want to come and shop, because the shops are so small and the rent is ridiculously expensive, maybe they work hard all year round for nothing, and all the profits are used to pay the rent, which is not in our interest. ”

In the past, he only opened a grocery store, and Boss Han's thinking was restricted, and he couldn't think of something deeper, so after hearing Su Mu's words, he thought about it for a while, and said, "Hmm...... If you sell those things, the area seems to be really not enough, no one goes to the third floor, and the first floor is too expensive, then where do you think we should open it?"

When deciding to open a store, choosing an address is the top priority, and the location is not good enough to attract customers, and the rent is bound to be expensive if the location is too good, which is not in their interests.

Su Mu fell into thought, his head quickly thought about it, thinking about where there was a suitable place to open a store around, the area required by the supermarket was too large, and he didn't think of where to rent it for a while, just when he was about to give up, he suddenly thought of something, and his eyes lit up instantly!

Happy smile: "Go drive, I'll take you to a place, that place is absolutely amazing!"

Boss Han was very satisfied with this shopping mall, but unfortunately the rent was too expensive, so he had to give up, followed Su Mu out suspiciously, and drove away.

More than ten minutes later, he stood in front of a dilapidated abandoned factory in a daze, and said to Su Mu speechlessly: "You want to open a shop in a glass factory?

Su Mu looked at this old factory, the roof collapsed a lot, only the outer wall was still good, the corners of the wall were covered with moss, it had been abandoned for I don't know how many years, and many glasses were smashed by naughty children.

The factory, which used to specialize in glass and has a towering chimney next to it, was rented by a clothing company in the sixties when the glass factory moved out to make clothes.

Labor was plentiful and cheap near Chinatown, but as labor-intensive industries moved from the United States to Asia and Central America, garment companies left, so the old glass factory remained abandoned to the present day, with World War II-era slogans written on the walls: "Do your job well, help the front line win the war." ”

The United States today, unlike the powerful United States, which was revealed in various details on the radio, is still in a "bipolar world" pattern of competition with the Soviet Union.

Fears of war with the Soviet Union have continued since World War II and have not abated, with the United States officially spending too much money on the arms race, with the Star Wars program alone spending hundreds of billions of dollars so far.

In addition, plagued by the economic crisis, which led to the bankruptcy and closure of a large number of enterprises, the unemployment rate in this era is very high, people are not rich, two billion dollars can become the world's top ten richest people, the dollar is still very valuable, and it is precisely because it is too valuable, high labor costs and resource costs have forced away a large number of local enterprises, and abandoned factories can be seen everywhere.

Su Mu asked rhetorically, "Why can't you use it?"

It's better to fix it, it's better than the rent of 180,000 US dollars a year, even if we spend 100,000 US dollars on renovations, we can earn it, it doesn't cost too much money to rent here, and the area is large, I think it's almost 4,000 square meters.

You see, after we arrived, there were already thirteen pedestrians passing by, and the bus stop was right here, and the school bus used to go down this road when we went to school, which I thought was good. ”

Renovation only needs to be invested once, and renting a store in a shopping mall requires paying $180,000 in rent every year, which of the two is better Boss Han can naturally see that after approaching the old factory, looking through the window, the ground is full of dust, and there are many messy sundries, which is really far from the store he imagined, and the location is quite good.

After struggling in his heart, he said to Su Mu: "First as an alternative, if there is really no store, we will open it here, look around the factory, and then go to other places to take a look, in case we can meet the right price......"

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When Su Mu came home in the evening, his father was busy greeting the guests who came to the restaurant to eat, there was only one table of customers, and there were not many dishes ordered, and the profit could be imagined.

The old man has a cold these days, but he still insists on going to work, even if he only takes half a day off, the $100 attendance bonus is gone, he is reluctant, so he gritted his teeth and insisted.

Su Mu's mother had just gotten off work and had come back with two large bags of messy fabrics, ready to take time to process the clothes worn by the dolls in the evening, and she could only get forty cents for making one, and she could make up to five pieces an hour, which was two dollars.

They are all busy for this family, busy for Su Mu, they never thought that one day in the future, they would be able to enjoy happiness because of Su Mu, they just hoped that the only descendant of the family could live a better life on the road of life in the future.

All for the sake of the children...... This seems to be the gene in the blood of the Chinese nation, it is both correct, but also full of tragedy, the past hundred years of poverty and backwardness brought to the Chinese psychological trauma, are in pursuit of the best for future generations.

In the past, seeing the elders busy, Su Mu could only silently cheer himself up, hoping to repay their efforts in the future, but today is different, he began to have confidence, the confidence that the whole family can live a good life.

When the mother saw her son coming back, she smiled brightly and said, "Are you back, are you tired?"

I'm going to make dinner for you, what do you want to eat? Let's drink the cold medicine first, I only remembered when I went out to work today, I didn't bring you the medicine in the morning, so I ......took it with me at noon."