"Grandma, our stewed food has been sold here for several months, and the price has always been this high. It's written on the wall. How can you say that?
Most of the customers who come to our store are repeat customers. Even you have come to our store to buy several times, which shows that you also like our braised food very much. You can't wrongly accuse us like this!" The salesperson He Honghong said hurriedly.
There is a large flow of people in the store, and the sales clerks cannot remember the faces of all the customers, but they are still familiar with some customers who often come to their store.
He Honghong had a deep impression of this old lady because she came to the store at least five or six times a month.
Three or four times out of these five or six times, I just walked around and ended up not buying anything.
She only made purchases two or three times, and each time she hesitated for more than ten minutes before buying a few ounces of braised food. Occasionally, they weighed out a few more grams, and she asked them to give her the bill for free.
Sales staff like He Honghong knew what was going on with this kind of customer at a glance.
——It’s just that her family’s financial situation is difficult, but she or her family members are craving for their braised food.
On several occasions, He Honghong and her friends couldn't bear it and wanted to give some of the leftover braised food from the day to the old lady for free, but Xie Qingxiao saw them and stopped them.
At that time, they thought their boss was too cold-blooded and inhumane. Now He Honghong is just glad that her boss stopped her from doing such a saintly thing.
Otherwise, judging by the old lady's behavior today, if she gave her the braised food for free, she might pester her to send her braised food every day in the future.
The old lady was being unreasonable: "It is precisely because I have bought braised food from you many times and I know that you always sell it at this price that I have more reason to say that you are a profiteer!"
The old lady pointed at the braised food on the shelves and the red paper on the wall with the prices of the various braised food on it, and shouted angrily:
"Duck offal costs 80 cents, pig intestines costs one dollar, pig head meat costs three dollars and eighty dollars, pork costs two dollars and fifty dollars...all kinds of vegetarian dishes cost 80 cents...how much do these things cost?
The offal is only one or two cents, the pig head is a little more expensive, but only one dollar and fifty cents, and the market price of pork is also eighty cents or one dollar! How many times have your prices increased? It's almost like you're robbing people, and you still dare to say it's not expensive! "
He Honghong's face turned red with anxiety: "Our marinated food costs more than this. Don't marinade ingredients, water, electricity, and labor have costs?"
"Those marinade ingredients and labor costs are quite expensive, right?" The old lady waved her hand impatiently and spat:
"I asked you before why your stewed food is so expensive, and you just brushed me off like this!"
"Why is your braised food so expensive? Other people's braised food is cheaper? Someone just came to the door to buy something, and his price is half the price of yours!
I have asked them, and they all said that the marinade and labor costs are not that much, you are just raising the price! You are profiteers! I warn you, lower the price quickly, or I will report you!"
When the word "report" came out, He Honghong didn't know what to do and turned to Lin Xiangyi for help.
Lin Xiangyi came over, patted He Honghong's shoulder soothingly, and indicated that she would take care of the problem.
Unexpectedly, the old lady looked her up and down and said with disdain: "Why is there another young man here? I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, call your boss out!"
"Grandma, I am one of the bosses," Lin Xiangyi said with a smile without getting angry.
"Yes, she is our boss's wife, the wife of our other boss," He Honghong said quickly.
The old lady was a little surprised. She looked Lin Xiangyi up and down. She didn't expect that she was the owner of this store. She was quite young and pretty... Thinking of this, she looked down on him even more:
"Girl, you are so young and beautiful, you should focus on the right path. Why do you only focus on the crooked path? Do you know that you are undermining socialism by setting such a high price? If I report you, you will eat peanuts!"
As soon as she finished speaking, He Honghong and several other sales assistants looked terrified.
Some customers in the store who did not know the truth, after listening to the old lady's high-sounding, one-sided words, really felt that Lin Xiangyi and her team's braised food prices were unreasonable and had cheated them out of their money. They were filled with righteous indignation and glared at Lin Xiangyi and the group of sales clerks behind her.
Seeing this, the old lady looked at Lin Xiangyi more smugly.
After being given such a big hat, she felt that Lin Xiangyi would immediately give in.
Unexpectedly, Lin Xiangyi's expression did change and became very serious.
"Grandma, you can eat whatever you want but you can't say whatever you want! High-quality goods and services often require more investment, so the price will be higher! If this means that we are exploiting consumers or damaging the interests of socialism," Lin Xiangyi frowned and asked back:
"Then the prices of food in state-owned restaurants are even higher. A portion of braised pork is 2.5 yuan. Generally speaking, a portion is 6 taels, so a pound of braised pork is more than 4 yuan. The cost of pork is probably only about one yuan. Their profit is much higher than ours!"
"Does that mean that state-owned restaurants are also stealing from socialism? If you can report us, can I also report state-owned restaurants?"
old lady!!!
State-owned restaurants are state-owned, and the prices of dishes are decided by top leaders after discussion. They must have their reasons for setting such prices. How could they possibly undermine socialism?
The old lady is just an ordinary citizen who is greedy for small gains, has little knowledge, and naturally trusts her superiors and the unit she works for.
As soon as Lin Xiangyi moved out of the state-owned hotel, she immediately surrendered.
She was afraid that Lin Xiangyi would really report the state-owned restaurant and implicate her.
He smiled awkwardly and said, "This... the braised pork in a state-owned butcher shop is so expensive? Haha, I've never been to a state-owned butcher shop and didn't know that the braised pork in a state-owned butcher shop was so expensive! It seems that what you said about high-quality goods really requires more cost, so the price will be higher..."
"Yes!" Lin Xiangyi said helplessly.
The customer who had just been misled by the old lady also agreed and said, "That's for sure. If the cost is high, the price must be high. Otherwise, how can people make money by doing business?"
"Yes! But then again, their stewed food is really delicious! My family is addicted to it and we have to eat it every now and then. Eating from other places doesn't suit our taste so well! Delicious food must be more expensive!"
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