Suzhou, Guanqian Street. The original two-bay BBK flagship store was expanded again last year. The state-owned store next door was no longer in operation the year before last, and it was not sold to BBK for 800,000 yuan until the beginning of last year.

After the expansion, the flagship store on Guanqian Street has a huge area of nearly 100 square meters. The overall pattern has also undergone great changes, and the left hand of the door is a whole VCD disc wall, which is available in various positions in various countries and regions such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, Europe, America, Japan and South Korea.

At the back is a row of tape containers, neatly arranged by year. There is a large long table in the middle with several Walkman players.

Members can be allowed to try it out on the spot. On the right is a row of shelves, displaying all the products of BBK according to their functions.

Learning machines, Walkmans, VCD players, laptops for all stages. In the center of the flagship store, there is a booth.

It sits on it a slim silver DVD player and a 40-inch Toshiba rear-projection color TV.

Ren Xianqi's latest DVD album is played around the clock. High-definition graphics, multi-channel stereo system with built-in sound.

Make every song in it look extraordinarily beautiful. Everyone who enters backgammon can't help but stop and look twice.

It's just that the price of more than 4,000 people, and only a small number of people will choose to take it home. Li Chunling has been working in this store for three years.

This year, he was successfully promoted to store manager. She is an employee recruited when the flagship store was first established, and she has experienced first-hand the development from only a few products to today's dazzling array of products.

Now there are nine employees in the store besides her. The main reason why a store has such a large number of people is that there are too many members who come to rent discs and tapes every day.

Just to do the registration, it takes several people to do it at the same time. Especially this year, with the increasing number of VCD manufacturers in China, the original thousands of VCD machines have dropped to more than 1,000 this year.

This makes many ordinary families grit their teeth a little and buy one to go home. As a result, BBK's flagship stores and franchise stores across the country began to climb rapidly.

A store doesn't sell even a product, and you can live well just by renting a disc. Not to mention, in four years, BBK's electronic products have had a pretty good reputation.

Not to mention the best quality, but definitely the same price, the most cost-effective. What's more, as long as you become a member, there are various invisible benefits.

Therefore, in a big store like Guanqian Street, 6 people a day can only be said to be barely enough. If you have a holiday or something, you need to urgently allocate manpower.

"Manager Li! The company has a new device and needs you to sign for it. Just after finishing counting the accounts in her hand, Li Chunling didn't have time to rest when she saw a delivery man in a yellow vest walking in with a large square cardboard box.

"Yo! Xiao Tao is here, what kind of goods are coming today. "Zhu Xiaotao is a delivery man in BBK Logistics and SZ City.

For more than a year, Li Chunling has basically delivered the goods from the company's system. Seeing that the cardboard box he was holding was a little big, Li Chunling hurriedly went up to help take it.

The carton looks big, but it's not too heavy, about 40 pounds, which is a lot lighter than the whole box of VCD discs.

"I don't know very well, but it says that the managers of each flagship store will sign for it in person." Putting down the cardboard box, Zhu Xiaotao took out a delivery note from his waist bag, found the one that said Guanqian Street Flagship Store, and neatly pulled it out and asked Li Chunling to sign.

"If you want me to sign it personally, it won't be a new product." As an old clerk, I have experienced this situation a few times, and every time this time, it is a new product sample sent by the head office.

Generally, these are used to show and sell in advance. For example, the DVD player in the middle of the store was also signed by her personally when it was sent in June.

"I guess so, but this time it's your store, and the other flagship stores in the city haven't been on it yet." In four years, the flagship store in Suzhou has expanded from the initial one to 10, not counting those franchise stores.

If you count the franchise stores, there are at least 80 stores in the whole of Suzhou. This is still a situation that the company is trying to control, otherwise the number will be even higher.

"Of course, we are a star store, from performance to the number of members, we are among the top ten in the country, and of course we have to go first if there are good things." Li Chunling is still quite confident in this.

The last time the laptop first came out, it was also the first time they were in the store. At that time, the top ten star stores in the country were able to distribute goods in advance.

Compared with those who can't be on the performance list, no matter what a good thing it is, they have to have it first before it counts.

After a few idle sentences, he sent Zhu Xiaotao away. After glancing at the more than a dozen customers in the store, there were not many people in the morning, so she picked up the cardboard box and turned around and went into the workshop inside.

The cardboard box opened, and inside there was a machine that looked like a small TV, with a keyboard and many small parts underneath, and even more strangely, a small iron drawer.

Trying to take these things out, although Li Chunling saw them for the first time, according to her experience as a clerk, she guessed that this should be a tool used for checkout.

Sure enough, inside the cardboard box, she found another document. The installation method and purpose of this thing are detailed above.

As she expected, this thing is the company's latest research and development of the cash register. Now another ten units have been built, which are still in the experimental stage, and they are specially given to the ten star stores with the best performance in the country to take the lead in trial.

As the manager of the BBK flagship store, I will visit and train at the head office every year. She remembers that during the training last year, in the final Q&A session, she heard a suggestion to equip the flagship store with auxiliary management equipment.

Although the store also has a learning machine with Internet access, it can send and receive emails and print documents. But these things are only convenient for them to check goods and communicate with the head office, but they can't help them improve the management efficiency of too many stores.

Now that I see this, I guess it's used by the company for store management. Li Chunling called a waiter, and the two of them moved the things to the service desk outside, and installed them in three times and two clicks according to the method on the manual.

After all, it is often necessary to help customers install and debug learning machines or something, and many sockets can be known as long as you look at them twice.

Power on and on. In the small TV-like display, an interface all in Chinese appeared.

"Sister Li, what's the use of this." Look at the options above, Outbound, Inbound, Membership, Rental, Sales.

The clerk Xu Juan operated the up and down keys on the keyboard, selected a member and clicked in.

"It says you need to copy your membership information first." Glancing at the manual in her hand, Li Chunling looked at the interface again.

Sure enough, there are several options for import and new creation on the members page. BBK's member information has been doing electronic versions for a long time, and a copy will be submitted to the head office basically every quarter.

took out a USB flash drive issued by the company last month, and Li Chunling inserted the latest member information through the interface next to it.

Ten minutes later, the information of more than 500,000 members in Suzhou was all transferred to the cashier.

Li Chunling, who had already studied the manual several times, asked Xu Juan to bring a few VCDs and a few cassette tapes.

Try following the process described above and clicking on the lease. As soon as you click in, an input box pops up, and you need to enter the member's number.

Every backgammon member has a card-sized membership card with a seven-digit number with letters on it.

Li Chunling tried to enter her siu4821. Sure enough, as soon as I pressed enter, my membership information popped up.

Pick up the infrared scanner connected to the cash register, and press the scan button one by one on the VCD disc and the encoding on the tape.

As the encoding was recognized, the names of the discs and tapes began to appear on the interface.

"This is good! With this, you won't have to write them by hand one by one in the future. ”

"The head office is really caring, just scan the data and it's all out." Several other clerks who had been watching curiously on the sidelines immediately called out in surprise.

In this era when technology is not yet developed, the biggest problem with leasing is that the data can only be written by hand in the most primitive way.

Guanqian Street, one of the top 10 stores in the country in terms of performance and number of members, can write their hands soft just by recording data every day.

Now, with such a simple and fast device, rental data can be displayed with a single scan, which not only greatly saves registration time, but also eliminates the need for writing at all.

It's just so convenient. Cash registers existed as early as the last century, but they were mechanical at that time. However, at that time, the machine could only record business records and had no other functions, but it also showed the prototype of modern management concepts.

In the late sixties, Japan took the lead in developing a new type of electronic cash register. It just has the function of running a ledger, which makes cashier and settlement more convenient.

But there is no purchase, sale and inventory function. The improved electronic cash register in the 90s began to catch fire in supermarkets.

By improving the current cash register, it is possible to print, enter, and manage product names, as well as simple purchase, sale, and inventory.

However, due to the limitation of CPU resources, the functions of electronic cash registers are still extremely limited. Since the acquisition of Arm, Chu Qing has begun to figure out a way for the application of Arm chips.

It wasn't until he saw the electronic cash register in the supermarket in the UK that Chu Qing had the idea of making a more advanced cash register.

ARM chips, which really became popular, started from the ARM7 series. The three-stage pipeline working mode allows it to perform multiple operations at the same time.

ARM's low power consumption and low cost are excellent choices for these applications. So after returning to China, Chu Qing asked the company's R&D department to urgently develop such a set of cash registers according to some of the performance of ARM7.

The current ten units are the final version after two rounds of testing. As for the use of it at the beginning, it is also today's BBK flagship store, and it is time to reform.

In four years, BBK has accumulated more than 30 million members. After the rapid development at the beginning, it has slowed down a lot.

However, if such a large membership information is all manually registered, it is a huge project.

Therefore, the introduction of technology has become an imperative option.