Chapter 208: Promotional Economy
The time entered New Year's Day in 1643.
Entering the New Year, according to the custom, this day is a national holiday, because it is close to Saturday and Sunday, so the holidays add up to exactly three days.
During the holidays, you can always see performances and Principality competitions on the streets of Manchester City.
I don't know when the shops on the street began to learn big promotions, as long as they are nearby, almost every store will launch major promotions, such as buy one get one free, or give away shopping coupons and many other promotional offers.
This has also made immigrants from Europe and the Ming Dynasty have become accustomed to shopping during the holidays, and the shrewd Ming immigrants have found that shopping for many things in a day will be much cheaper than usual.
So long before the holiday season arrived, stores began to stock up on goods in large quantities from the beginning of December in anti-New Year's Day three-day promotional sales.
Of course, these three days are very happy for the people, and for the merchants are also happy for the three days, the sales of these three days are generally worth nearly half a month's sales, so there is no store that does not pay attention to it.
Changsha stinky tofu shop Lao Zhang two, although there is no large amount of hoarding tofu, but these days is also to increase the amount of tofu production, but also on the first day of the New Year's Day holiday launched a preferential activity, buy a pound of white tofu, send two taels, although this promotion is not as profitable as clothing and furniture and other goods, but still attracted a lot of citizens to buy, after all, tofu is a thin profit, people can not buy one get one free.
Recalling that this journey was not easy, Lao Zhang and his wife would unconsciously shed tears If they had met Australians earlier and came to Australia, the two babies would not have given them to others because they couldn't afford to be poor, and whenever they thought of the two babies, the couple would cry unconsciously.
Now that he has entered his forties, Lao Zhang, although his age is not very old in modern times, but now he is about to enter the situation of more than half a hundred years old, and he is very worried when he thinks that he does not even have a child by his side.
But God seems to be good to him, just a week ago, his daughter-in-law suddenly began to feel a little uncomfortable and vomited, went to the hospital for a checkup, and actually said that she had a child.
This can make Lao Zhang very happy, although the daughter-in-law is a few years younger than herself, but she is also a forty-year-old person, the doctor explained that she is an advanced maternal age, it is easy to miscarry and must pay attention to rest.
Seeing that there were no people in the store, Lao Zhang wondered if he should hire a few helpers, but he couldn't tire his daughter-in-law.
"Ximei, sit still, let me come," Seeing his daughter-in-law serving two cups of soy milk and fried stinky tofu to the customer with a plate, Lao Zhang immediately snatched the things from his daughter-in-law's hand and let her rest on the side.
Near noon, there were a lot fewer customers, and after finally sitting down to rest, Lao Zhang said to his daughter-in-law: "Ximei, I have seen the New Year, let's invite a few people, you have a child, you have to take care of it, the business in this store is getting better and better day by day, let's be busy ourselves." ”
"Invite someone, Zhang Ergou, you have only lived a good life for a few days, and you are thinking about the local lord's old wealth, what if you ask someone for money, I am fine, I can do it." Ximei was anxious when she heard that she was going to invite someone, this is not just a matter of eating a few meals, you have to pay someone a salary.
Ximei, don't get excited, don't I feel sorry for you, you see that we have been in Australia for so long to conceive a child, but there can be no mistakes, the doctor has said, you are an older mother and need to pay attention to rest, and it is not too late for us to quit when the child is born.
Hearing her husband's words, Ximei choked up in her throat and couldn't speak.
"Then, let's ask for one first, I can do the work of collecting money in the store, and I don't worry about others." Ximei finally agreed to her husband's request.
In fact, for Zhang Ergou, his business is very good, and it is hard to earn a few more people, but the ideology cannot be changed, if it is not for the night school training for a few days, and the importance of becoming bigger and stronger, he may be the same as his daughter-in-law.
The promotion of Changsha Minato Tofu Shop is still ongoing, and other shops on the other side of the street are not lagging behind, especially clothing stores and furniture stores, and the discount promotion is unprecedented.
Many of Yang Wenwen's clothing stores last year's popular models are basically sold at about 5% off, and some seasonal clothes are put at 3% off at the lowest price.
Walking on the streets of Manchester City, women and men everywhere can see in their hands carrying eco-friendly bags made of kraft paper, needless to say, either for food or for use.
The festive atmosphere of the whole New Year's Day is filled with a festive atmosphere because of the promotion of merchants.
This kind of celebration is also what everyone wants to see, originally because they were afraid that Chinese would have the habit of saving money, they would save their wages and not use it, resulting in poor currency circulation in the market, bringing an economic crisis to Australia caused by poor currency circulation.
But soon the clever travelers discovered a habit, although the immigrants have the habit of saving money, they are very fond of the products they promote when they consume.
Poor people live on a budget, usually looking at how much things are costing, and once they drop it, they will buy it immediately.
Since they love promotional goods, they invited business operators from all over Manchester City to a business symposium under the leadership of the government. The topic of discussion was the holiday promotion.
Originally, the operators of these shops were still a little resistant to this kind of promotion, but after several holidays and German promotions, a statistical account book found that the sales were much larger, and the income was more than before.
New Year's Day promotions, Spring Festival promotions, and other traditional festival promotions have been used by savvy merchants, and sometimes there is no big festival, and some ways will be come up.
The money in the hands of the people of Australia circulates and circulates in this kind of promotion, which not only promotes the development of business but also promotes the development of banking business.
Nowadays, the proprietors of various shops are accustomed to depositing their surplus money in the bank, although the interest rate is not high, but at least it is safer than keeping it at home.
To a certain extent, this also gives banks more money to lend to those who want to start a business, this circular economy, Hu Xijing called the promotion economy, that is, through promotion to achieve the habit of letting the people consume, and drive the circular development of the conscience of the surrounding related industries.