Chapter 22: I Am at Ease with the World (1)
If you have a long time of leisure, you will feel bored, and if you have a long time of stressful days, you will also feel that there is no fun. Lying on the beach all your life may also feel like a garbage dump. Man is such a strange animal.
Chen Zier has been living a leisurely life for more than half a year, which may be an important reason why he felt that school life was difficult a few days ago.
Han Qian is right, he is a participant in this world.
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On March 16, after Sun Hong was busy for nearly a month, the decoration work was officially completed.
Chen Zier went to take a look, basically in line with his ideas, he didn't understand professional things, but he generally knew that this should be a simple modern design style, the floor was reflective silver gray white, the wall was also pasted with tiles, and a few linen-colored wooden boards were pasted on the wall after the cashier, with funny italics: It's good to have pudding.
This is the advertising slogan that Chen Zier imagined, a little ashamed, but that's it...
The door is a glass door, and the original cement wall has also been replaced with curved glass, because it is just at the turn of the intersection, but this curved tempered glass is not cheap.
But Chen insisted on using it, and he also had a long table placed next to the glass in the store, a bit like a bar, where customers can see the antique school gate of CUHK, and at night, the scenery is very quiet and pleasant.
Chan believes that someone will like it here.
The first stage of work was completed, and the decoration cost more than 60,000 yuan, which is much more expensive than the average convenience store, the floor, light bulbs, refrigerators, air conditioners, tables, cash registers, and the font design of the advertising slogan, and of course, the curved glass, which were all spent a lot of money.
Sun Hong saw that the money was spent, his teeth hurt, this is to open a convenience store, this is a high-end club, but it is precisely because Chen Zier has spent real money that he is more attentive.
Feeling different makes him feel hopeful.
The first phase of the work has been basically completed, Sun Hong wanted to use the shelves in his original store, but Chen Zier vetoed it, and the dust on it was like the surface of the moon, so he resolutely did not use it.
The convenience store has only three rows of shelves, and the rest of the goods are all placed on the shelves against the wall, and there are also a few small items at the cash register.
Sun Hong felt that it was inappropriate, he said: "In this way, we will have a lot fewer goods, and I think we can put another shelf." β
Chen Zier denied again, "Three is enough, I'm still wondering if I want to put two, you put another one, how can people go inside?"
None of this is so important, what matters, what exactly do you put in?
When Chen Zier asked this question, Sun Hong was stunned, "Just put the things that are commonly used in daily life?"
"What are those things?"
"What else can there be, firewood, rice, oil and salt, this is at the school gate, and put some stationery or something, we are a small shop, we can't put much. β
Chen Zier carefully recalled the 'magic weapon' of running a convenience store. β
He walked out of the store, walked outside, looked around, "Do you know who lives here?
Sun Hong said: "This is not the gate of CUHK, students." β
"And the back of the row, the group of apartments at the back of this row of faΓ§ade houses. β
Sun Hong shook his head. These days, he runs around, buying materials and running procedures, how can he have time to take care of these.
"I talked to our counselor, and he told me that our school's School of Foreign Languages, School of Journalism and School of Law live outside the school, right there," Chen said. I asked him how many people numbered, and there were about a thousand of them. β
Every weekday, they have to pass by the pudding convenience store and cross Taiyuan Road to their classrooms. So we don't sell firewood, rice, oil, salt, we sell breakfast. β
"Ah, sell breakfast, sell breakfast, a roadside stall, solve it?!What are we doing with all this?"
Chen Zier was bitter, "How can we say that it is a roadside stall, we are licensed to operate! Selling breakfast is decided according to the market." β
"Forget it, you are like this, let's recruit two little girls first. I'll tell you about it when the time comes. β
In this era, the concept of management and competition is still stuck in price.
At present, Changhong TV is engaged in,Do everything possible to reduce the price,In the end, I only make 10 yuan per TV,There is not enough profit for research and development,Of course, there is no awareness of research and development,They all want to reduce costs on a large scale to defeat competitorsγ
Some people may not believe it when they say it, but when it comes to the last madness, the TV set is sold by the pound, a real event.
The cashier of a convenience store must be recruited, and Sun Hong said he can do it.
Chen Zier: ......
He understood Sun Hong's idea of wanting to save every expense, but it was absolutely not feasible, not to mention anything else, he had just gone bankrupt, he hadn't smiled much, standing there with the cashier, the expression on his face was as terrifying as the boss of the underworld.
Consumers come to pay, it's like paying protection money, who wants to come?
There was no way, Chen Zier insisted, and Sun Hong did it.
There are two conditions for recruitment: optimistic and cheerful, and good looks.
Sun Hong's expression was strange, and he said: "This has nothing to do with our job at all, are you recruiting people, or are you recruiting beautiful girls......
Chen Zier smiled angrily at him, "Hurry up!" This condition is what we need most in this job, and the machine will settle the accounts for her when she collects money, who won't train it? Hurry up, and remember the order of my two conditions, be optimistic and cheerful in front, don't look for some iceberg beauties to come back, and when you get here, you should be Guanyin Bodhisattva." β
In this era, there was a shortage of jobs, and in addition, Chen Zier's salary and benefits of 900 yuan a month were not available for two days, so Sun Hong recruited people.
Chen Zier received a call from him and came to the store.
He took a brief look at it first: the two little girls were not smiling, maybe Sun Hong was a little nervous when he told them that the 'big boss' was coming.
But at least he didn't dare to speak, but took the initiative to say hello: "Hello boss!"
Chen Zier nodded, "Hello." β
At a glance, it basically meets the requirements, the body condition is good, and the shopper looks comfortable.
Chen Zier nodded at Sun Hong, meaning that he was doing a good job.
Chen Zier hugged his hands around his chest, leaned his buttocks against the cash register, and faced them.
He spoke first: "My surname is Chen, and my name is Chen Zier." β
The two girls immediately bent down, "Mr. Chen is good!"
Chen Zier was a little embarrassed.
He hurriedly said, "You guys relax first, I'm not a vampire type person, so you don't have to be nervous." Well, let's introduce ourselves to me first, just be simple, and let's get to know each other. β
The girl on the left spoke first, she looked very confident, and said: "Mr. Chen, my name is Qian Hongying, from northern Anhui, I have been a cashier before, I am very familiar with this job, I believe I can do it well." β
Chen Zier nodded, this girl is clever in her words, and when she laughs, she can still see the little tiger teeth on both sides, which is very cute, which is good.
Next is the one on the right, "Mr. Chen, my name is Hua Ruoqiu, I am from southern Jiangsu, eh, I think I can serve customers well and do this job well." β
It seems that I have never done any work in this kind of shop. The little girl is very thin and white, and she talks like a warbler and a little bit of a Jiangnan girl.
Sun Hong applauded beside him, and at this moment he felt that he had recruited someone who was very good, at least he didn't stammer.
Chen Zier nodded and said approvingly: "It seems that Boss Sun has recruited two talents for our store." β
praised the three of them in one sentence, and the atmosphere was a lot soothing.
He continued: "As for the content of the work, Sun Hong should have also told you, that is, the cashier and some daily work, including the cleaning of the store. β
"I won't repeat these contents, but what I want to talk about today is some business philosophy, service guidelines and some things that I think are important and need you to learn. β
"Sun Hong, you also listen. Although there are only four people in our shop now, no matter how small the sparrow is, it must be complete. β
Sun Hong's face was grim, and with two employees, he, a small boss, also had to have a posture, and he couldn't stand without standing.
Chen Zier groaned, he has a lot to say, but where to start has to think carefully, and finally he said: "Let's talk about welfare first, it is 900 yuan a month, and now the average salary of workers is about 800 yuan, Zhonghai may be a little ahead of the country, but 900 is not a lot, besides, this is not all your income in a month, my idea is that you have a commission for the daily turnover." I still have to discuss the specific amount with Sun Hong, but there must be one, you can rest assured. During the New Year's holidays, I will not let you be empty-handed. β
The two girls looked overjoyed.
Chen Zier has never liked to pick and search, he has so much money, and he can't spend much, which hurts the hearts of employees.
"Second, I hope you can have a sense of ownership, this is not a slogan, this involves the specific business philosophy of pudding, I will explain it slowly. β
The two girls' eyes widened. Sun Hong also had a serious expression.
Considering that he had a lot to say, they might not all be able to understand and remember, so he stopped and asked Sun Hong's notebooks to come over, and let the three of them sit on the long table, listening and memorizing.
"You certainly don't have to memorize the content of the welfare, and the part of my speech that you remember most clearly is it. β
All three were amused.
Chen Zier continued: "First, the variety of goods in convenience stores should maintain a high replacement rate, and the goods we imported back for the first time cannot all be sold out, there must be a backlog, and there will be no selling, and there will be the second and third waves." These are the products that need to be eliminated, so your usual work is to statistically screen and screen the sales volume of each product in each period. I don't want to sell a few items in a month and get them back next time. This is the job of the two of you, and Sun Hong is not responsible for this, understand?"
"Second, your work is not only in the store, but also outside the store, the convenience store is small, the goods that can be placed are limited, we only serve customers within 500 meters, you don't have to think about it from a distance, but within 500 meters, you have to find out what kind of people are the most here, in fact, you need to collect a lot of information, such as the consumption level of most people, age, weather temperature, and whether there are any festivals nearby, etc. β
Hua Ruoqiu didn't understand, "May I ask Mr. Chen, what are we collecting these for?"