Chapter 16: The Charm of Coupons
Grain and oil stores have money to earn, and they have motivation and order to operate.
Fan Jianxin added two cashiers to collect money, freeing his mother from only being responsible for settling accounts with the accounting department of the factory.
In the past few days, the store has been too busy, grandma and sister Yingzi have no one to take care of, grandma didn't say anything, just make some pasta, but as soon as my sister Yingzi got out of school, she shouted to eat the pasta and vegetables made by her mother, Fan Jianxin couldn't help but liberate her mother.
In the family, the most leisurely is the father.
Nominally, he is in charge of the overall work of the store, but in fact he is not responsible for anything. If you want to be really responsible, you are responsible for managing the tobacco, alcohol, tea, etc. that entertain customers and business units in the store, and be responsible for contacting the snack department or small restaurant to deliver food to the store when you are busy.
It's okay to smoke the hospitality cigarette in the store, and walk around, so uncomfortable.
Fan Jianxin is most happy to see his father like this, that is, he smokes more, he does not interfere, and even encourages him to drink a little wine before meals.
It's always much better than going missing in a previous life!
The grain and oil store is full of customers every day, and there are queues from the opening of the morning to the evening. The clerk didn't have time to go home to cook, and it was not a problem to always eat the food delivered by the commissary.
Fan Jianxin decided to set up a small canteen for workers and converted a house behind the courtyard into a kitchen. Dad Fan Fagui volunteered to go to the vegetable market every day to buy. Fan Jianxin hired a chef to specialize in cooking, and when the staff was not too busy, he helped choose and wash vegetables.
A small canteen was opened.
Dad complained that the price of vegetables was skyrocketing every day.
In the early to mid-80s of the previous life, prices rose wildly at the end of each year, which became a trend at that time. This reminded Fan Jianxin of a price increase notice issued by the State Price Administration on the first day of January 1983......
It's a matter of lying down and making money!
Thinking of this, raising funds has become Fan Jianxin's first priority.
At the end of the evening, Fan Jianxin held a meeting of all employees. Each employee will receive a year-end bonus of 100 yuan, and the contractors of the seven stores will each receive a contract dividend of 200 yuan.
Yang Miao was not there, and Fan Jianxin asked people to send the money to Director Yang's house.
In addition, it was announced that grain and oil stores will start to engage in welfare fund-raising from today, and voluntarily participate, with an interest rate of not less than 10% per year, depending on the store's operation at the end of the year.
However, there is a limit to the amount of funds raised, and each employee can raise a maximum of 500 yuan. Funds shall not be withdrawn in the middle of the process, and they can be transferred at a premium between store employees, and the store can be recorded.
As soon as the news came out, Feng Shuisheng was the first to shout that he wanted to participate in the fundraising. Since Fan Jianxin took office, in less than half a month, he has received a lot of benefits.
The salary is not worse than one point, the bonus is higher than the salary, not only the monthly bonus, but also the year-end bonus, dividends, festival fees and meal subsidies, and the store also manages lunch. If you work overtime at night, you will be in charge of dinner. This is a treatment he has never been treated before in his career.
He was certainly willing to participate in the fundraising.
At that time, when Fan Jianxin mobilized him to be a contractor, he promised him, "In a year, you will have money to ask for a wife!" β
Of course he didn't believe it, but he paid 100 yuan and became one of the seven contractors.
What he thinks is that if no one has a wife over forty, this time he should be drunk, and he will use the money to play in the water, maybe he can really beat his wife.
He remembered the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the Cowherd was a small herding cow baby, with no family background, no background, and still married a fairy.
This time, when he heard Fan Jianxin say that he wanted to raise funds, he was the first to participate enthusiastically......
The next day, Fan Jianxin raised more than 10,000 yuan in cash and issued five transfer checks from the factory. The amount of each cheque is $10,000. This is the store limit given to him by the factory, and only 10,000 yuan is given at a time.
For these five checks, he found Director Yang to get them.
At present, the grain and oil store is applying to the bank for a corporate account, but it will not be approved for a while and a half, and all the accounts of the unit will have to go through the account in the factory.
Fan Jianxin took the money and checks, took the two brothers, and came to the state-owned brewery in Weizhou City. He remembered that the price of liquor would rise by 50% after New Year's Day, and he would do his best to stock up on liquor.
Fan Jianxin rode his father's old bicycle, and Erhezi secretly rode out the permanent brand bicycle that his brother had just bought to give to his fiancΓ©e. After the three of them converged, Fan Jianxin took Hua Wei and rode a bicycle to the gate of the winery.
Fan Jianxin said to Erhezi and Hua Wei: "You two have also been running with me for these days, this time at the winery, which of you two will take the lead?" β
Ersunzi and Hua Wei, you look at me, I look at you, they are all a little stage frightened.
For Fan Jianxin, he hopes that the two brothers can grow up quickly, so that he can have time to pan for gold in other fields. This is an opportunity to train the two of them, and of course he will not let it go.
"What are you two afraid of? β¦β¦ Originally, you two had nothing, and you were afraid of losing anything?! β
Although Hua Wei has dropped out of school for more than two years and set up a painting book stall for a year, he still refers to Erhezi and asks him to go to the winery to contact the wine.
"A cigarette is a letter of introduction, a wine glass is a large seal, and you can decide to ...... it as soon as you take the chopsticks."
Erhezi's heart was horizontal, and he muttered about the smoothness of doing things in this era, and entered the distillery with a letter of introduction issued by the grain and oil store......
They made an appointment to meet at noon at a restaurant not far from the winery.
Fan Jianxin and Hua Wei walked around the door of the winery.
On the side of the distillery's main entrance, there is a retail liquor store outside the distillery. The first is to sell loose liquor produced by the distillery; Second, with the internal preferential ticket issued by the distillery, you can play a certain amount of wine in the store for free or buy some preferential wine.
This was a benefit for the workers of the distillery back then, and it was also a way for the distillery to liaise with its affiliated units.
In this day and age, this practice is common.
For example, soy sauce factories issue discounted tickets for the purchase of soy sauce; Tofu shops issue discounted tickets for the purchase of soy products; Cigarette factories issue cigarette stamps for the purchase of "white paper packets" of cigarettes...... All of this is a manifestation of the pervasive welfare, or privilege provision, that prevails in this era.
Those who have connections and have a certain amount of real power can get such and such cheap good goods. Those with greater power can also enjoy special supplies of various rare goods.
For ordinary people, if you can smoke the "white paper pack" cigarettes produced by the local cigarette factory, it shows that you have the ability, and it is a thing worth showing off.
In fact, "white paper pack" cigarettes are indeed cheap and good, but they don't have a beautiful outer packaging.
The flour produced by Yuejin Flour Mill mainly includes coarse flour, standard flour and special flour (also known as Fuqiang flour). Usually the grain store supplies standard powder. For ordinary citizens, even if you have money, you can't buy special powder, and only during the Spring Festival can you buy a limited amount of special powder with food.
If you are a cadre of a certain level or a person in a special occupation, such as a seafarer, a high-polluting worker, an engineer, a senior teacher...... You can also buy special powder at the special grain store.
Others, if they want to buy special fans on weekdays, they have to buy them with special relationships or tickets.
It is in this way that the coupons issued by Fan Jianxin's grain and oil store can attract a lot of buyers.
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Fan Jianxin and Hua Wei entered the winery's retail store.
There are two salesmen in the store, one is a middle-aged woman who is on the fat side, and her face looks like you owe her money, and it is difficult to get along with each other; The other was a beautiful little girl who seemed to have just started working.
Two female clerks, cigarettes are definitely not good, Fan Jianxin regretted not bringing some White Rabbit toffee, he bought a lot of snacks for his sister Yingzi yesterday.
He chose the little girl as the person to talk to.
"Little sister, how is the loose wine here wholesaled?"
"Oh? β¦β¦ Our liquor here is only retail, not wholesale......"
"Uh, young lady, what is the ex-factory price of your wine?"
"It depends on what kind of wine."
"Little sister, how much is the ex-factory price of this first-class liquor?"
"6 corners and 5 points, right? The large amount may be 6 jiao...... I don't know much about the ex-factory price of the wine. All the liquor we sell in our shop is loose liquor, and the price is marked on the jar......"
Fan Jianxin is not stupid, as soon as he enters the door, the door is clear. There are seven or eight large jars of liquor in a row of the store, and the names and prices of the liquor are posted on the jars.
The retail price of first-class liquor is 8 jiao per catty, 1.2 yuan for Mizhou Daqu and 1.8 yuan for Mizhou Tequ......
"Little sister, we want to buy some wine from your factory, who are we looking for?"
The little girl was dumbfounded, obviously not knowing how to answer.
"You two little boys are cramping! Want to entertain us?! β¦β¦ If you want to buy alcohol, take out the wine ticket, or get out of the way! β
The middle-aged fat woman listened to Fan Jianxin's call of a "little sister", and regarded Fan Jianxin as a disciple, and opened her mouth to look for a quarrel.
Fan Jianxin thought to himself, Erhezi was not there, he and Hua Wei would never have a playful look at girls, and when they asked seriously, this old woman was impatient.
This is truly a time when sellers are gods!
"This big sister, we are jumping into the grain and oil store of the flour mill, and we want to buy some wine from your distillery and go back, when the Spring Festival benefits are distributed to the employees......"
As soon as the middle-aged fat woman heard the words "grain and oil store", her eyes lit up, and when she saw the business negotiation letter handed over by Fan Jianxin, her face immediately changed from freezing point to boiling.
"You guys jumped into the flour mill grain and oil store?"
Fan Jianxin and Hua Wei both nodded.
"I heard that there are discounts and giveaways for buying grain and oil in your store?!"
"yes."
"We're too busy here to get out, and the factory has also received coupons from you, but we haven't got a single ...... in our store."
The fat woman's face was a little angry when she said this, and she turned her face and took out a pack of Donghai brand cigarettes from her bag under the counter.
Donghai Tobacco Fan Jianxin is very familiar, he often helped his father to buy this brand of cigarettes in tobacco and liquor stores when he was in elementary school. From the original two corners and nine points of a pack, the price has now increased to five cents and eight. Ordinary salaried people can smoke such a grade of cigarettes, which is not bad.
I saw a fat woman, who took a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it to Fan Jianxin, and also smoked one and held it in her mouth.
This surprised Fan Jianxin!
He never thought that this woman would actually smoke. Quickly took out his big front door cigarette, handed it over, and kept saying "sin, sin...... I don't know that my big sister smokes, I'm really sorry. β
The middle-aged fat woman saw that Fan Jianxin handed over the big front door, and smiled sweetly, "Little brother, you are a good smoke!" He took the cigarette, replaced the Tokai cigarette from his mouth, and skillfully lit it with a lighter.
Then, with a flattering expression, she said, "Little brother, look at you like a little capable person." Can you get a coupon from your store? β
Fan Jianxin couldn't tell what he was feeling in his heart. Quickly stabilized his emotions, took out the big front door cigarette from his pocket, and handed another one to the fat woman, he didn't smoke it himself, but just held it in his hand. Then he said unhurriedly:
"Big sister, there is a limit to the coupons issued in our store...... How easy is it?! Still, I still have a few ...... here."
Fan Jianxin said, took out ten coupons from the grain and oil store, pretended to be very reluctant, tore off two and handed them to the fat woman.
The middle-aged fat woman took the two coupons, not too satisfied, and still looked at the remaining coupons in Fan Jian's new hand, her face showed a pitiful look, and then she turned into a coquettish coquettishness, and said, "Little brother, you can give a few more ......"