Chapter 116 Further Development of All Categories

Tengying's development is completely within expectations.

After Chen Pingsheng toured the company, he called Jiang Peiyao to have dinner together.

She turned eighteen a few days ago and is now nineteen, but she has never touched the 100,000 yuan pocket money she is given every month.

She is still very pretty.

By the way, he also called Gao Hu over. These brothers from his hometown only gathered together at his daughter's full moon banquet.

Gao Hu enrolled in an advanced EMBI management class in Beijing, with tuition of 280,000 yuan per year.

Chang Fu even laughed at him for having just graduated from junior high school and going straight to study for a postdoctoral degree.

It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, but you only have a few days of classes a month.

"You know nothing."

Gao Hu retorted, "That course is quite good. I didn't know that before, but now I realize how much I lack. There are more than 30 people in the class, and half of them are junior high school graduates. All of them are big bosses now. I'm the worst off among them."

Chen Pingsheng also wants to apply for one, but he hasn't decided which school yet.

Among the top business management programs in China today, the most famous one is definitely Professor Ma’s Huxiu University.

The second is the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Shantou.

These are too far from home. Besides, you need the founder’s sponsorship to enter Teacher Ma’s course.

To put it bluntly, you can't just spend money. They are not short of money at all. What they want is a group of students who also have top resources.

It's actually quite scary to gather all these people together.

Gao Hu said, "Old Chen, I think it would be best if you could enroll in our top-tier program, which costs 680,000 yuan a year. There are certain restrictions for enrollment there as well. The applicant's company must have assets of at least 100 million yuan. There are no industry-specific requirements, so you can enroll with any company you choose."

This kind of class is actually the best way to expand your network.

The so-called class reunion in society does not refer to your junior high school and high school classmates.

Instead, students in the CEO class who have been screened and can spend 600,000 or 700,000 yuan a year on studying also have to review company information.

You won’t be short of money.

"Okay, we are still lacking in education, so it will be beneficial to learn more."

It is a novel experience to be a student when you are in your thirties.

Chen Pingsheng filled in his information online. This kind of class is only held twice a year.

The next one happens to be in early August, so it’s just the right time for him to sign up.

With his investment, Chang Fu spent 500,000 yuan to rent an office building of more than 700 square meters in Shijingshan.

It's not the whole building, just a small floor.

Another 200,000 yuan was spent to build more than a dozen live broadcast rooms.

There are two popular live streaming platforms now, one is Douyu and the other is Huya.

Most of them use beautiful women to attract users. Chen Pingsheng felt that this market was too small, so he invested 5 million and acquired a 49% stake, but lost interest after watching it for a day.

Among the hottest entrepreneurial trends in the market now, mobile phones were the most popular in the past few years.

It was defeated by Xiaomi.

By the way, Xiaomi also defeated all the copycat manufacturers. In this regard, Xiaomi has indeed made a huge contribution.

The era of mobile phones has passed, and mobile Internet has officially arrived. Now everyone is focusing on niche areas.

Like Vancl, which specializes in shirts.

And now I am very popular and I am my own spokesperson, specializing in selling cosmetics.

They all achieve excellence in one niche field before seeking to enter multiple fields.

Chang Fu is still working in the live broadcast industry that he is most familiar with. Yang Qian seems to have nothing to do, so Chen Pingsheng asked her to go to Tengying Entertainment.

People like her who have worked in the system are very suitable for dealing with people.

Tengying also happens to need such a person. He will officially arrange the job for her after she is familiar with Tengying's business.

After finishing his work here, Chen Pingsheng went to work with Zhang Tao to study all kinds of fresh produce.

To put it bluntly, he wanted to move the vegetable market into his own Tengsheng Fresh Supermarket.

The best-selling item in the vegetable market every day is undoubtedly pork.

Next are various seasonal side dishes, the prices of which fluctuate greatly every day.

It's like a string of beans. The price is one at one in the morning and another at two in the morning.

By three o'clock, the wholesalers all knew that they had almost purchased all the goods they needed.

Just set off the fireworks.

The original wholesale price was fifty cents, but I’ll lower it to twenty-five cents for you.

This also greatly increases the difficulty of operation.

To put it bluntly, the purchase cost is difficult to control, and the person in charge of this matter has a lot of room to maneuver.

This is just one type of dish; there are dozens of other side dishes, including meat.

"Taozi, our vegetables and meat should be managed independently."

A store manager who is in charge of fruits will definitely not be good at vegetables.

Likewise, the person who is in charge of vegetables may not necessarily be able to handle meat well.

Take the simplest pork for example. In the vegetable market, they hang it up and cut it.

Supermarkets cut the food first and then let customers choose, which involves two issues.

The traditional method of hanging up one side of pork and cutting and selling it immediately is good, but it greatly affects the aesthetics of the entire supermarket.

To put it bluntly, it lowers the grade.

This has nothing to do with price and everything to do with customer psychology.

So if they want to make it, they can only make it cut.

Cutting pork is a technical job. If it is not cut well, it is likely to result in a lot of waste.

They want to sell a full range of fresh produce, but it can't be as dirty and messy as a wet market.

The best way is to keep researching and evolving.

Fortunately, Tengsheng Fruit is already rich and can plan ahead before doing anything.

Chen Pingsheng announced the establishment of the fresh vegetable and meat departments at Tengsheng’s headquarters in the suburbs of Shijingshan.

Then use 500 square meters to build a simulated model room for Tengsheng Fresh Supermarket.

How to arrange the fruits, where to put the vegetables, and how to place the meat all need to be clearly studied in this model room.

Only then will you actually open the first one.

Lao Guo also introduced him to two people who had been working in the wholesale market for more than ten years.

First, let them sort out all the categories of fresh food that Tengsheng wants to deal in.

Regardless of the purchase price for now, what we need to do now is to arrange and manage the vegetables and come up with a clear idea.

Chen Pingsheng stayed here for more than ten days.

The model room can be completed in one day, from placing the incoming vegetables to weighing them for customers.

We discover problems one by one and then make improvements, and then move on to freezing and cutting the meat.

Almost all of them are constantly improving.

Chen Pingsheng said, "People usually come to buy vegetables very early in the morning. After the vegetables are brought in, they need to be sorted for two hours before they are finally presented to customers in a beautiful and clean manner. The vegetable and meat department has three shifts: one group arrives at 3:00 a.m. and closes at 10:00 a.m., another at 9:00 a.m. and closes at 5:00 p.m., and finally another group arrives at 4:00 a.m. and closes at 10:00 p.m."

"The early morning shift is paid 8,500, the midday shift 6,500, and the evening shift, which is the easiest, is paid 6,000."

"The specific year-end bonus depends on the store's operating performance."

After more than ten days of research.

Chen Pingsheng not only set specific standards for the placement of side dishes and meat, but also wrote out detailed procedures for what employees should do every day.

He hired four people to do something that three people could do in two hours.

Excessive spending on personnel not only makes employees less tired, but also enhances the customer experience.

These days, there are at least seven or eight executives from headquarters who have been accompanying him to continuously research and improve.

Only after everything is ready will we start recruiting and training people.

Then go directly to the Third Ring Road and invest 10 million yuan to open five super-large Tengsheng fresh supermarkets at the same time.

It was officially announced that Tengsheng has entered the full-category fresh food market.

The reason for hiring and training people in advance is that we would rather spend more money before opening the store than get into a rush and mess after the store opens.

He wants to standardize the weighing and cutting of each fish into a standard process.

There is no need to worry about employees having any opinions about training, and your salary will be paid as usual.

You should still eat the same amount of fruits and vegetables every day.

According to the standard opening process, we also need to undergo comprehensive simulation training here for one month.

During this training process, we constantly discover and improve problems.

Of course, training without customers is ineffective.

For this reason, Chen Pingsheng also notified the surrounding residents and small manufacturers that they could come and get fresh food for free every day.

There is definitely no need for fruit, as we have already been trained.

Seeing his attitude, the headquarters could easily guess that he wanted to focus on improving the vegetable and meat categories, so as to advance into all categories.

Otherwise, since I'm such a big boss, is it necessary for me to study with you every day about the arrangement of side dishes and the method of cutting crucian carp?

Which big boss would do this?

Generally, when people have a lot of money, they just sit in the office and give remote commands when they want to do something.

Let the people below do it.

At most, he would come to take a look occasionally, unlike Chen Pingsheng who was so focused on studying with them.

There are people who participated in the whole process, so it’s not impossible.

That's definitely one in a thousand.

Even the big boss came in person to help kill the fish and cut the pork. Which other executive would dare to just sit in the office and listen to other people's reports?

Producing all kinds of fresh produce such as vegetables, chicken, duck, fish and meat is dirty and tiring work, but anyone who just wants to sit in the office and come up with plans with their hands behind their backs is...

None of them can be done well.

This requires all executives to participate in the entire process so that they can truly have a concrete and profound understanding of the entire product category.

To put it bluntly, although Chen Pingsheng was not very educated, he was absolutely willing to endure hardships and bend down to do the work himself.

Because he knew that without his participation, the matter would probably only be half-hearted.

As I said, when people become rich, they will no longer want to touch the things they used to have.

After working in the office, I no longer want to kill fish and prepare side dishes by myself every day.

If they fail to do this, they will not be much different from other supermarkets.

He has so much to do, yet he still insists on studying here every day, let alone other people.

Anyone who just wants to sit in an office will be driven to the grassroots level by him.

(End of this chapter)