Chapter 164 Pricing
Wei Mingliang: "Sister, how do you decide the prices for the goods? Can we open the store tomorrow?"
When they customized the price temporarily before, it was roughly based on the gold, silver and jade articles, and it was just a rough estimate.
From now on, this convenience store will serve the residents of the entire base.
The number of residents who registered tonight, plus the rescue soldiers and medical staff recruited, is close to ten thousand.
And more and more people will move into the base in the future.
Without a fixed price, management would be very confusing.
After Wei Mingliang mentioned this, Xu Sichen also remembered the problem of estimating the value of base points.
This not only concerns the sales of the canteen, but also the salary and benefits to be announced at tomorrow's recruitment meeting.
Before the end of the world, the price of goods was determined by cost, supply and demand, efficiency and information.
The first factor that affects the price of goods is the cost of the goods.
The second factor that affects prices is supply and demand.
The third factor affecting price is efficiency.
The fourth factor that affects prices is information.
The third and fourth ones do not need to be considered for the time being, because Xu Sichen is the only source of goods for the entire base, and there is basically no need for competition.
The second influencing factor is actually not necessary.
After all, the current conditions can only meet the limited survival resources of the base, and other things will not be considered for the time being.
The only factors that determine the base price are the price of the goods and the scarcity of the goods.
The higher the cost of something, the higher the price will be.
Production costs will decrease as technology improves, and prices will also decrease accordingly.
When French Emperor Napoleon entertained his guests, he used very fine silver tableware.
He himself only uses aluminum cutlery. You know, silver is much more valuable than aluminum.
Many people think that Napoleon used aluminum cutlery because he was low-key and simple, but it was actually the opposite.
In that era, using aluminum tableware was a symbol of noble status.
Because aluminum is extremely expensive to refine and aluminum tableware is very rare, it is expensive, even more expensive than gold.
Later, aluminum smelting technology advanced by leaps and bounds, and aluminum became very cheap.
Because of the scarcity of metallic silver itself, the value of silver far exceeds that of aluminum.
Therefore, cost affects price.
In the early days of the base, the convenience store prioritized selling goods that met the basic survival needs of the base residents.
For example, food, for example, water.
If the island space is not opened yet, no matter how much food she stores in the space, it is limited.
Until the land can produce food stably, the price of food will inevitably be set high, especially scarce fresh ingredients.
But now that we have the island space, it means that fresh ingredients can be produced continuously. In addition, the growth rate of the space is much faster than the actual output, so the price in this regard can be adjusted down.
In contrast, other daily necessities will have their prices set high before the production method is found.
According to her previous idea, the basic working hours for physical labor are one point per hour, the basic working hours for technical jobs are 1.5 points per hour, and the basic working hours for mental jobs are 2 points per hour.
Based on a ten-hour workday (in these difficult end times, don't expect an eight-hour workday or holidays, after all, conditions don't allow it), a resident's minimum daily wage is 10 points.
A person needs to spend money every day on rent, water, food...
After a while of consideration, Xu Sichen began to list the basic commodities, and then filled in the points price at the back while calculating.
Wei Mingliang watched his sister writing and drawing on the cash register for a while, but he didn't disturb her. He went to clean the warehouse and put the goods on the shelves.
When he filled all the shelves, Xu Sichen handed him a notebook.
"The existing products should be priced according to the list. If there are any omissions, you can roughly adjust them based on similar products."
After Xu Sichen finished speaking, he turned around and left quickly without waiting for Wei Mingliang to react.
Hey, the electrician is still waiting for her to power up the equipment.
I don’t know if they have moved all the stuff from other warehouses in Building 5, otherwise they will have to find a new warehouse to store the goods.
After thinking about the future work arrangements and the weight of those things, Xu Sichen directly occupied the empty lower floor.
Afterwards, not only the circuit equipment in the space was released, but also all the building materials in the space were released.
After recording the supplies stored in each room, Xu Sichen went directly to find Fang Tiexiong.
"Professor Fang, this is a list of supplies needed for the upcoming work and their storage locations. You will be responsible for their management for the time being. When Captain Wang returns, I will have him come and hand it over to you."
Fang Tiexiong immediately took it over solemnly, ensuring that the material dispatch work would be completed and not a single penny of the base's property would be wasted.
Qian Wenbin immediately retorted: "What base property? This is the base commander's personal property!"
Fang Tiexiong was stunned for a moment, then quickly changed his words and said, "Yes, yes, yes, we all have a stable place to live thanks to the base commander."
Although Xu Sichen doesn't want everyone to be grateful to her, everyone must understand that the entire base belongs to her alone and she has the final say.
Her ultimate goal in building the base was for herself, and everyone else was just a component of it.
After all, she wants to live freely, but she doesn't want to live alone.
Xu Sichen was very satisfied that they thought so.
"Will the solar generator be operational by ten o'clock tomorrow morning?"
Qian Wenbin thought for a moment, then said, "There are still seven hours until ten o'clock in the morning. If we work quickly, we can finish setting up everything on the lower floors. The upper floors may take another five hours."
Xu Sichen: "Sure! After finishing the small high-rise, there's no need to rush to the high-rise. Let's finish modifying the main electrical box in the base first."
"The base commander has a high-voltage generator?" Fang Tiexiong asked with some surprise.
Xu Sichen: "It's on the supplies list for you. You can arrange it yourself."
Upon hearing this, the normal people and the electrician couldn't help but clench their fists excitedly.
The base actually has a high-voltage generator. With this, there will be no problem with the base's basic electricity supply in the future.
After explaining everything, Xu Sichen entered the space and took stock of the materials in the space.
Uh, I didn’t expect that after taking out so many things, only a corner was left empty.
It can be seen that she collected all the supplies she saw at that time, and she collected a lot of things.
Especially the containers that came later, I still feel a sense of wanting more when I think about them now.
It’s a pity that the teleportation function disappeared after the apocalypse, otherwise she would still want to go out and continue the raid.
This kind of zero-dollar shopping happiness in units of containers is something that most people cannot experience.
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