Turning thirty is an awkward age. Some people shine brightly and achieve glory at this age, while others find their lives a messy struggle.
Undoubtedly, Chen Pingsheng belonged to the latter....
A heavy rain brought a wisp of fog to the Magic City.
The huge raindrops hit the front window with a crackling sound. The best vehicle to drive in rainy weather is undoubtedly a large off-road vehicle.
Chen Pingsheng drove out the Black King Kong Bosu G-Class from his garage, which he had not driven for a long time.
This car is tall enough and powerful enough.
He took his cousin Chen Sai to Nanjing Street to look at storefronts. Nanjing Street is also known as the ceiling of domestic shopping streets.
The average price of storefront orders there is basically between 1.2 million and 2 million.
It depends on the location, but a slightly better one will not be less than one million per square meter.
Even a smaller one would cost at least 50 or 60 million.
He has a huge Shuiyunjian flagship store and a Tenghui department store here.
The combined price of these two storefronts alone is a whopping 1.5 billion.
Chen Sai's foot is still in a cast and he can only walk with the help of crutches.
Chen Pingsheng plans to buy a small shop here for her to do business and collect rent.
It is about half lower than the normal market price.
Judging from the flow of people and consumption level on this street, any business you do will not be too bad.
As long as you can run a storefront on Nanjing Street, it will be much better than delivering food.
Eldest sister Chen Yao also came here. She wanted to rent a storefront here and start a clothing business like Chen Sai, which would be a good idea.
The two of them opened their shops next to each other, so they had someone to chat with.
Xiao Le and Xiao Ya are both grown up anyway, and all the shops of his eldest sister's family are his own.
There is no pressure to earn seven or eight million a year without even paying rent.
It was her own idea to open a store on Nanjing Street.
"Big sister, why don't you call my younger sister and ask her to open one too."
My younger sister Chen Qi doesn’t plan to have a second child. Hu Qilin is enough for her.
The little one is going to kindergarten soon, so my little sister still has time.
It's not good for her to be too idle. She has to find something to do.
"My little sister likes to open a clothing store. If she hears you're buying her a storefront, she'll definitely come running over."
"Okay, it wouldn't be bad if the three of you could be the boss ladies here together."
Chen Pingsheng asked his secretary to choose a seat for them, three sets of seats in a row.
The smallest is 95 square meters and the largest is 120 square meters, and both have attics.
For a store like this, it would definitely be a good idea to open a more refined clothing store.
Although physical businesses are becoming less and less prosperous, good shopping streets are still crowded with people.
The three stores all have the same owner, a retired man in his sixties.
He made his fortune in the early days by relying on demolition, and later speculated in real estate, stocks and storefronts.
The old man from Shanghai is still very stylish, wearing an Armani suit.
He has more than just these few storefronts. The main reason he wants to sell them is that his grandson needs money to start a company.
The price is 320 million, no bargaining accepted.
For a location like Nanjing Street, this is the price.
Chen Pingsheng felt no pressure at all, mainly because his wife now not only went to Beijing to organize the Grand Night at Shuiyunjian, but also to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
If we wait another year or two, we will also be able to do it in the eight newly opened cities. The income will be too good to be true.
"Do you think this facade is okay?"
There is nothing wrong with the storefront on Nanjing Street. Chen Qi arrived very quickly.
She was also the youngest, so she shamelessly asked:
"Brother, if you buy this, how much rent do you plan to pay us per year? If it's too high, I, your sister, can't afford it."
"Just forget it."
Chen Pingsheng wanted to pat his little sister.
"I just saw that you were too idle, so I thought of finding something for you to do. I can charge you a million yuan in rent a year for this location, so what kind of pressure can you have?"
"One million a year, you're going to scare me to death."
Chen Qi thought about it and first stretched out three fingers, but when he felt pressure, he retracted two.
The most she can offer is 100,000 yuan a year.
Even this is still a matter of luck. You can only make money if you have great talent.
"You're paying 100,000 a year?"
Chen Pingsheng was too lazy to talk to her. He had to buy the storefront first no matter what.
We can discuss the rent later, he doesn't rely on this money to make a fortune.
I just want to put a little pressure on them.
One hundred thousand a year, even if you just sell mineral water, you won’t make more than that in a year.
Chen Pingsheng looked at Chen Sai's crooked foot, and then at her pitiful daughter.
After thinking about it, I decided to rent it to them at this price.
As for what kind of store they use the money to open, that is none of his business.
I don't have the time to care about it. If the rent is like this, I still can't make money in Nanjing Street.
I’m afraid even the water of the Huangpu River cannot wash away this big joke of the day.
Chen Sai had never done business before and knew nothing.
But Chen Qi still acted like a female hooligan, helping her look here and there.
When it comes to blackmailing her own brother, she has absolutely no bottom line.
Who told her brother to be so rich that he gave her an excavator to dig every day?
She will never be able to finish digging in her lifetime.
Chen Qi has long wanted to open a more exquisite clothing store. After all, as a woman, who doesn't like selling clothes?
The three of them discussed for a while. Chen Qi planned to sell clothes, Chen Sai planned to sell shoes, and as for the eldest sister Chen Yao, she would sell bags and other things.
There is no such thing as small profits but quick turnover in a place like Nanjing Street, because the rental costs are there.
Secondly, many of them are tourists from other places, and they buy once and never come back again.
Thirdly, the locals in Shanghai who have a little spending power don’t like cheap goods.
If you just pick a shoe store in the alley and ask, you will find that the starting price of most shoes is one or two thousand.
There are many people who cannot afford it, but there are also many people who can afford it.
Anyway, these shop owners tacitly respect one principle: they all sell mid- to high-end products.
We compete in everything except price.
If a newcomer who knows nothing competes with them on price, he will make you question your life in minutes.
The small shop owners here are all from wealthy families.
Chen Pingsheng's Lujiao Coffee is opened here. Business is good, but it still loses several million a year.
It’s nothing, the rent is so high that it makes me question my life.
Some stores are like this. They don't expect to make money at all. They just open them in places with high traffic to increase their popularity.
Lujiao Coffee is still in the central location, with a total storefront area of about 200 square meters.
The annual rent is 12 million.
If you want to buy that kind of storefront, don't even think about it without four or five hundred million.
This is not just one shop supporting three generations, but one shop supporting ten generations.
Chen Pingsheng himself has many storefronts, so he certainly won't complain about the high rent.
I was exploited by my younger sister again invisibly.
Only she dares to think of reducing the annual income to 100,000.
It’s good for the three sisters to open a shop together so that they can take care of each other and eat some melon seeds outside when they have nothing to do.
Looking at the bustling Nanjing Street, it has its own unique charm.
After he bought these storefronts, many relatives came.
The main reason is that now that the family startup fund is gone, it doesn't mean that he won't help his relatives.
Chen Sai is an example. After she was hit by a car, it was Old Chen who helped her deal with various things.
Now they are giving her 100 million to buy a storefront for her business. Seriously, the rent for such a location is 100,000 a year.
This is almost like giving it away for free.
(End of this chapter)