Wang Zhaodi found it unbelievable: "Judging from this, you've sold more goods in just four days than the supply and marketing cooperative does in a month."

Currently, the county supply and marketing cooperative purchases less than 1,000 yuan worth of goods from them each month.

Lin Yu and his team had only been running the store for four days, yet they were already making so much money.

Lin Yu explained, "The provincial capital has a large population and a big market, plus we've run some promotions."

It must be said that this kind of promotional tactic, which would become commonplace in later generations, was really effective at that time.

Lin Yu talked to them while eating.

After dinner, the whole family goes to work, and the children go to school.

Lin Yu and Lin Aiguo went straight to the conference room for a meeting.

The meeting was attended by office staff, brigade cadres, and factory director Lin Yu.

"These are the sales figures for the past four days. Do you have any questions?"

Accountant Li asked, "Will we incur a loss by doing this activity?"

Lin Yu replied, "We've lost some profit, but the overall profit margin is higher than usual."

Because those goods are from their own factory, there are no middlemen.

Direct sales from the place of origin minimize costs.

Therefore, even with promotional activities, the profits are higher than those from wholesale sales.

Accountant Li looked at the accounts she had calculated and nodded in acceptance.

Lin Aiguo then asked, "What was the department store's reaction?"

Lin Yu shook her head: "It shouldn't be anytime soon, after all, the food is just one of their counters."

The biggest concern of the executives has always been that the specialty stores and the department stores will clash.

Now that Lin Yu has explained it, they understand.

Department stores have their own pride; they are large entities that cover all aspects of life, including clothing, food, housing, and transportation.

They don't care about a food counter at all.

This is why food purchasing managers collude with black market speculators.

The problem has been solved, but the food counter is currently a neglected department.

They hadn't even realized that the food factory had opened its own specialty store.

Lin Yu felt it didn't matter if they found out, since the department store itself had lost customers.

She did not engage in malicious competition.

Hearing her confident tone, everyone felt relieved.

Lin Yu then talked about the next steps in the plan.

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After the meeting, Lin Yu returned to her office and distributed the pastries she had brought back from the provincial capital to everyone.

She then secretly slipped the small wallet that Song Meili had bought to Zhou Huanan.

Zhou Huanan's face flushed red, and he unconsciously wore a silly grin.

Lin Yu secretly reminded him, "Be discreet, don't be too flamboyant."

Zhou Huanan seemed to be incredulous that she would say such a thing about him, his eyes wide with disbelief.

Lin Yu ignored him and turned back to her office to handle her own work.

After work, she delivered the items that the four sales clerks had asked her to deliver to their respective homes.

Upon arriving at their home, we were naturally warmly received.

They even pulled her aside and asked her to tell them more about her own children.

Lin Yu knew they were all worried about their families, so she patiently told them about what had happened in the past few days.

After visiting four families in turn, Lin Yu's voice was almost hoarse.

The provincial capital would call every day to report on sales. Later, the turnover did indeed decline, but gradually stabilized at around two hundred.

Lin Yu felt that this result was already very good.

Meanwhile, the group that had gone to Guangcheng for the inspection returned to the Lianhua Brigade.

The purchasing team rushed into the office excitedly.

After not seeing them for a month, Lin Yu thought they were some criminals when they rushed in.

They were all tanned dark all over, and when they smiled, only their teeth were white.

"What happened to you all?"

Bao Decai laughed and said, "There's nothing we can do, it's too hot over there. We're running around every day and we've gotten tanned."

Lin Yu had been to Guangcheng once and knew that the climate there was warm and humid.

Bao Decai and his group went to western Guangdong, where it was even hotter.

So it's normal for them to get this tanned.

So she changed the subject and asked him, "How's the procurement going?"

Bao Decai smiled and said, "It's done. We bought a truckload of pineapples and signed an agreement. The fruit there is so cheap. I also bought some other things. We can give it a try."

Lin Yu patted him on the shoulder: "Not bad, you can even apply what you've learned to other situations."

Bao Decai scratched his head; he just wanted to come up with some good ideas for the factory.

He was overjoyed to receive praise from the factory manager.

He kept urging Lin Yu to go out and see the pineapples they had brought back.

The people in the factory had never seen so much fruit before; basket after basket were pineapples.

There were also several baskets of expensive fruits such as mangoes, durians, and mangosteens.

Lin Yu had considered these options, but they were inconvenient to transport and not as cheap as other fruits.

It's actually not suitable for canning.

So she took out those baskets of fruit and gave some to everyone in the factory.

None of them had ever seen these fruits before, and some even asked Lin Yu how to eat them.

Lin Yu pushed Bao Decai out and asked him to teach everyone how to eat fruit.

Bao Decai, who loved to show off, naturally agreed.

Someone immediately opened a mango and exclaimed, "This tastes so good!"

"Let me try it, let me try it, mmm, it's so sweet."

"What's this called? It's really delicious."

Bao Decai told them it was a mango, and many of them had heard of Mango brand cigarettes.

"So this is what a mango is."

Lin Yu thought these people were all strangely cute.

The pineapples that Bao Decai brought back were delivered to the research and development team by Lin Yu.

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