Walmart is scheduled to officially open on December 26.

The reason why this day was chosen is because New Year's Day is approaching, and the French people are about to start celebrating the New Year, and this time to open can catch the last wave of New Year's goods.

Zana and all the employees of Wal-Mart Commercial Company were busy with their feet on the ground, and they hurried to advance the opening time by so much.

The whole staff is struggling, but Alfonso, as the boss, is not in Paris at this time, he returned to Biarritz and Isabella yesterday for Christmas, and only got on the return train today.

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"Lucio, how much do you think you can make today?" Nasi and Lucio sat in their offices on the third floor of the supermarket, looking down through the window to the bustling crowd below.

Lucio sat in a wheelchair, laughed from ear to ear, and said, "Haha, it's definitely high, it's definitely high." ”

Before Wal-Mart opened, it was published in all the newspapers in Paris, and it also distributed leaflets on the streets for a week, and the publicity cost alone exceeded 3,000 pounds.

Coupled with the name of 20% off the opening ceremony, today's popularity exceeded everyone's expectations.

Even Zana ran to the scene to help, and only Lucio was still sitting in the office due to health reasons.

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Sixteen-year-old Jacqueline is the daughter of a dentist in Paris, a time when doctors, especially dentists, were quite respectable and firmly in the middle income group.

Jacqueline, who had a carefree childhood, is now studying at the Lycée des Girls' in Paris, graduating a year later.

After graduation, according to his father's arrangement, he may return to his family's small clinic to become a nurse, and then marry a lawyer or businessman.

Many people can't admire such a life, but she is extremely dissatisfied with the future that can be seen at a glance.

It just so happens that a rescue organization called the Red Cross has been in the limelight recently, and it has gained a large number of fans in Paris with a few touching stories and free sharing of how to make masks.

When she heard that they were recruiting battlefield nurses, she immediately wanted to sign up, but when she told her father about the idea, she was met with strong opposition.

She argued with reasons such as "the Red Cross is a humanitarian organization, soldiers will not attack nurses", "help wounded soldiers, contribute to French mothers", etc., but they all failed.

In a depressed mood, she heard that the Wal-Mart supermarket was about to open, so she brought her friends to relax.

"There are too many people, why don't you go back and come back another day..."Jacqueline looked at the crowd in black and retreated.

Her friend disagreed, and as the daughter of the racecourse owner, Caroline had a kind of bravery that ordinary women did not have: "No, the discount only lasts for three days, let alone look at this stance, I suspect that the goods will not last even a day."

It's not a lot of money, but I've been riding in a carriage for an hour, so I'm going to have to buy something today! ”

With that, Caroline pulled Jacqueline and rushed into the crowd.

In these years, the warblers are legal, but no one will take advantage of them, but the crowd pushes and shoves them, which makes it extremely difficult for them to move forward.

"Keep order! Don't push! Prevent stampede! "Many staff members stood in front of the shelves and roared hoarsely, but in the era when there were no megaphones, a person's voice was so small that most people couldn't hear it at all.

"No, there will be a stampede if this continues." Zana was so anxious that he poured all his heart and soul into the supermarket.

And Alfonso promised to give him 3% of Walmart's French department store dry shares if he behaved well, and if he wanted, he could spend some money to increase this proportion to 5%, so now he is the most important supermarket, more than Alfonso.

He had foreseen a possible stampede, arranged for a number of people to maintain order, and put up signs in prominent places, but the surging crowd still greatly exceeded his psychological expectations.

After thinking about it for a while, he said with difficulty to François on the side: "Limit the flow of people and enter in batches." ”

After saying this, he felt that all his strength had been drained, and before he promised Alfonon a military order for 500,000 francs in sales, if it exceeds this amount, he will have shares, and if it is not exceeded, he will have to negotiate again, and giving this kind of order is to cut off his own money.

But there is no way, once there is a stampede, it will be all over, and 3% of the dry strands will be broken.

There were four doors on the first floor of the supermarket, and François took a few staff members to write signs and put things in order, stipulating that only two of them were allowed to enter and the other two were only allowed to leave.

"Don't crowd, there are too many people today, please go to Gate 1 and Gate 2 on the left to line up to enter, thank you for your understanding and support! If you can't afford to wait, we welcome to come back tomorrow! François stood in the doorway, waving his hands and saying loudly.

Of course, no one listened to him, and no matter how loud a child yelled in this noisy environment, he couldn't hear it from a distance of 10 meters.

Fortunately, although the voice could not be heard, the message could be conveyed through body language and holding signs, and gradually, with the help of the Champs-Élysées police station, order was put in order.

Some people left, but more people still chose to queue up obediently, because in the case of a 20% discount, the selling price is basically the wholesale price of the factory, and the supermarket does not make money.

People spend tens or hundreds of francs on New Year's goods, and the difference between buying them in the supermarket and buying them in the grocery store starts at a dozen francs.

And the wages of ordinary people are only a few francs a day, which means that even if they stand in line for a day, as long as they can buy something, they will earn it from an economic point of view.

Jacqueline and Caroline were lucky enough to be the first to enter the supermarket.

Caroline looked back at the tourists who were blocked outside and were not allowed to enter, and at the same time she was full of a sense of superiority, obviously it was just an ordinary supermarket, but I could go to others and couldn't, and the supermarket suddenly became more fragrant.

"Okay, it's not too crowded now!" Caroline said happily.

"Well, what are we going to buy?" Jacqueline smiled.

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The scene was a little silent all of a sudden, the two families were not short of money, the New Year's goods had already been purchased, they came over to have a lively time, and they really didn't know what to buy for a while.

"First, let's go shopping." The supermarket has three floors, with a total of 7,000 square meters, and the two of them walked for a long time before they walked from the food area to the beverage area.

There are obviously fewer people in the beverage area, because in these years, drinks are still middle-class consumption, and ordinary people drink mostly boiled water.

Here they finally enjoy the treatment of shopping guides.

"The two ladies buy something, we have all kinds of coffee, milk, wine and drinks here, and a raffle ticket for spending more than 100 francs."

The two looked at each other, and Jacqueline preemptively asked, "What can be drawn for lottery tickets?" ”

"1st Prize, 1st Breguet Model 1868, 2nd Prize........."