After seeing Xiao Youzhi off, Meng Zhao turned to Shen Qinghe's classmates and said, "Gentlemen, thank you so much for coming today. If you see any styles you like, just let me know and I'll recommend them to you."
For today's opening, Meng Zhao dressed up specially. When the pretty lady asked her questions, the younger ones were a little embarrassed. It was a slightly older one who stepped forward and said, "We heard that Brother Chen gave Master Yan a gift box, and Master Yan praised it highly after using it. So we would like to buy the same gift box to see how it works."
Meng Zhao immediately guessed which set it was, so he took out the gift box and began to introduce it to them.
At this time, those who could afford to study were mostly from relatively well-off families, but even so, a gift box costing one or two taels of silver was still not cheap. Meng Zhao subtly changed the subject after noticing this.
"I see that you are all busy with your studies. If you feel that there are too many items in the set and you can't use them all the time, then you might as well just buy this soap. Use it to clean your clothes and you will have a light minty scent all over your body. Moreover, mint has an invigorating effect, which is very beneficial for your studies."
Although not everyone is wealthy, Meng Zhao's introduction successfully impressed many people, and he still sold three sets of boxes, four soaps, and three sets of toothpaste and toothbrushes.
Before leaving, Meng Zhao gave them some sample packs of other scented soaps to take home and try on their families. In the end, everyone left with a smile.
In the evening, Meng Zhao finished his busy day and began to tally up the accounts. A total of thirty-seven gift boxes were sold today. In addition, various other items such as soap, toothpaste, and toothbrushes were sold, and the total sales amounted to seventy-eight taels of silver.
Even after deducting all costs, there was still a profit of forty or fifty taels, which was undoubtedly a very good result for her new store opening.
However, Meng Zhao was not blinded by greed. The gift boxes she sold could be used for about three months under normal conditions, so the repurchase rate would not be very high in the short term.
Sure enough, starting from the fourth day, the number of people buying gift boxes began to decrease gradually, but the good news was that the number of other items purchased increased significantly, especially soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes, which have become popular items that customers must buy when they enter the store.
One reason was that on the first day of opening, many luxurious carriages gathered at the entrance, which directly elevated Meng Zhao's shop to the level of a luxury item.
At first, many people thought that Meng's Treasure Pavilion sold extremely expensive items, and many people were curious but dared not go into the store to take a look.
It was only after hearing from people coming out of the shop that we learned that the items in that shop weren't as expensive as everyone had imagined.
Common scented soap and bath powder are only one or two coins more expensive than those in other shops.
The soaps that smelled so good, even the cheapest one only cost forty coins, weren't completely unaffordable. So, everyone wanted to try them out for themselves and see what was so good about these things that were coveted by the wealthy.
As a result, customers found that the high price was justified once they used the products. Mengji's products were indeed good, especially soap, a consumable item used by the whole family. Many people bought it for two or three yuan at a time.
Although the profit margin for a single item is not as high as that of a set, the large volume of orders gradually helped to boost the business of the shop.
As more and more people entered the store, Meng Zhao worried that it would affect the mood of the ladies and young women from wealthy families. After all, these distinguished guests valued the comfort and privacy of the shopping environment. Therefore, Meng Zhao issued a VIP card to those who made higher purchases.
Customers holding this VIP card can not only try new products for free, but also enjoy home delivery service. Every time a new set is launched, someone will be sent in advance to ask if they want to reserve it. If so, it can be delivered to their door, so they don't have to come to the store to shop. At the same time, it can also solve the problem of insufficient parking spaces in front of the store.
But this is not a long-term solution. After all, once the teahouse opens, there will probably be many carriages, and then there will be even less place to park.
So she decided to turn the backyard of the Treasure Pavilion into a parking lot, since they didn't make soap there anyway, and Xu Ping's grandfather would be in charge of guarding the place.
After returning from Hongnong County, Meng Zhao specially brought some gifts to Xu Ping's house and told him that he wanted Xu Ping's grandfather to go to Hongnong County. However, when Xu Ping's grandfather heard this, he refused to go no matter what.
“I’m not going. He’s doing his job well over there. Why should I go and cause trouble? Do you really expect him to support this old man?”
Meng Zhao patiently reassured him, "When you get there, you can help keep an eye on the gate. People come and go from the workshop every day, so if anyone tries to smuggle anything in, you can keep an eye on things for me."
Grandpa Xu remained unmoved. "That won't do either. I know Xu Ping too well. If I'm at home, he'll still think about me, his grandpa. But if I'm always around him, he might find me annoying. We don't get along, so if we stay far apart, he can still think about me and work in peace."
Seeing that Grandpa Xu was so determined, Meng Zhao had no choice but to give up the idea for the time being and send his second aunt and two children over instead.
Now, Treasure Pavilion is in dire need of someone to watch the parking lot, and Meng Zhao once again thought of Grandpa Xu Ping.
Meng Zhao had already noticed from their previous conversations that although Grandpa Xu was stubborn, he was clear-headed, saw things clearly, and was not confused.
So they invited people over and started to renovate the parking lot. They not only planned out places for horse-drawn carriages and mule carts to park, but also prepared common horse hay and water troughs for feeding.
In addition, she set up a rest room with tea, so that if the host stayed in the shop for a long time, the drivers could have a place to sit down and rest.
When Meng Zhao introduced the place to Grandpa Xu, he understood. "I understand your intentions. The coachmen of those wealthy families have much more spare money than us farmers. Today they are driving the carriages, but tomorrow they may be customers of our shop."
"Besides, if we treat them well, if our masters don't know where to go next time, even if they just mention it to their masters, it can bring a lot of business to our shop."
Seeing that Grandpa Xu understood his thoughts immediately, Meng Zhao didn't give him any more instructions. Anyway, the work wasn't tiring, so he let him do it for now.
Shortly after her second aunt settled in Hongnong County, Meng Zhao received news about Liu Laisheng and Zhu Lihua.
A letter had already arrived, saying that the two people's small workshop was doing quite well, and the starch they produced was not much different from the starch produced in her workshop.
However, they encountered some problems in sales, for the same reason that Meng Zhao had encountered when he tried to sell starch: even though their prices were lower, no large restaurants or grain stores were willing to buy from them.
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