Chapter 362 There is a problem with the goods
It was exactly as I'd expected. As soon as the event ended, the store lost much business. Huang Qiuju had previously envied Chen Dongshuang for having so much free time, but now she didn't need to envy her anymore; she had even less time.
Occasionally someone would come in because they heard there was an event, but when they heard the event was over, they would turn around and leave.
Sun Xiaoxue had nothing to do, so she lit the iron and ironed the wrinkled clothes, then sorted the various goods into categories.
There was no business all morning. Lu Donglin was watching here, but Lu Dongping didn't stay here and went out to do his own thing.
Lu Donglin was not used to being so idle all of a sudden, so he took the clothing newspapers and magazines that Lu Dongping brought back from Guangzhou and flipped through them.
Huang Qiuju leaned over and leaned over the counter, knocking on the table with her hand: "Lu Donglin, there's no business today, what should we do?"
Lu Donglin raised his eyelids and said, "I'm not anxious, why are you anxious?"
"It must be frustrating to have no business! A few people just came in for the promotion, but when they heard it was over, they turned around and left. Tell me, should we continue? As long as people come, we have to keep them."
Lu Donglin put down the newspaper in his hand, leaned back in his chair and looked at her: "You have a lot of ideas. Are you bored and can't find anything to do? When customers come, you should greet them and find ways to get them to buy clothes. This is what you should do. How to do business and how to offer discounts are not something you need to worry about. Didn't you hear what my sister-in-law said last night? Do you want me to tell you again?"
"Buy one get one free every day for 365 days. What are we going to eat and drink? Are we going to starve?"
Huang Qiuju was disappointed and walked away with a pout.
I was muttering to myself, this guy changes his attitude so quickly. He was chatting and laughing in the morning, but as soon as he came to the store, he started to act arrogant and aggressive.
Sister-in-law, what's wrong with two grown men listening to a woman!
While she was muttering, she saw a woman coming in from outside. Before Sun Xiaoxue had time to stand up, she went up to greet her.
"Hello, is there anything you like? The clothes in our store are all new styles of the season, directly supplied by the factory. They are of good quality, new styles, and not expensive."
The woman looked around, checked the prices, and chose the cheapest shirt. "Do you have my size?"
"Yes, yes, wait a moment, I'll get it for you." Huang Qiuju rummaged under the shelf: "Yes, yes, wait a moment, I'll iron it for you and try it."
She greeted them warmly while Sun Xiaoxue watched from the side.
It was obvious that the woman was in urgent need of buying clothes. It was already May, but she was still wearing a padded jacket that had been washed so much that it looked bleached. She had a big red scarf on her head, leaving her eyes uncovered. I don't know if there was anything wrong with her, but she didn't feel the heat at all.
Huang Qiuju took her to the corner behind the curtain to try on clothes. After taking off the outer jacket and putting on the shirt, it fit her perfectly, but the headscarf was still wrapped around her face, which looked really weird.
Huang Qiuju said, "It's not cold anymore. Although it's windy, you can take off your headscarf. It will look better if you take it off and wear light clothes."
The man ignored her and just said, "Please pack up my clothes for me."
Huang Qiuju responded, "Then come with me to pay and I'll pack your clothes." With that, the two of them went to the counter.
Lu Donglin was slightly stunned when he looked at the first customer of the day. The other party was also stunned for a moment, and then looked away.
He paid quickly and left with his bag.
After the others left, Huang Qiuju said, "What a weirdo! Covering your head with a scarf in this hot weather, not even worried about it getting rotten. I wonder if you have something shameful growing on your face that's why you're covering it so tightly."
Lu Donglin leaned there and squinted his eyes. He didn't feel strange, but he felt that the person looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere.
What purpose does that headscarf serve? When I lifted my head just now, my face was exposed. It's not like I'm particularly unusual, and I'm not disfigured. Perhaps I have some kind of condition that requires my head to be kept out of the open air? Maybe it's confinement after childbirth?
He couldn't remember and was too lazy to think about it. He had a very good memory and would have some impression of everyone he met. He had been in Tonghua Lane for such a long time and had met many people, so it was not surprising that they looked familiar.
The shop with three storefronts sold several pieces of clothing in the morning.
Business in the store was not good, which was something he had expected long ago. Lu Dongping brought them lunch at noon, took a look at it, and told Lu Donglin.
"Business is like this. It's not always good. Don't get carried away just because business was booming during a few days of promotions. This is normal now."
Lu Donglin said "hmm": "I know." He absolutely refused to admit that he had been feeling a little carried away these days because of the booming business, but he was just being strict in front of Huang Qiuju and the others so that no one would notice.
He also knew that this was normal. Before, when he was at Aishang, it was common for him to not see a single customer come in for most of the day.
Lu Dongping urged him again: "If you have free time, read more books and try to catch up on your cultural knowledge this year so that you can get a junior high school diploma."
Then he asked him, "Where are your textbooks? I'll bring them to you later."
Lu Donglin surrendered with his lunch box in his arms: "Come on, I'll just relax today. I'll get it myself when I come over tomorrow morning. You don't need to bring it to me."
He took the lunch box to the counter and asked Lu Dongping: "Brother, have you eaten?"
Lu Dongping said: "Not yet, I'll go back and eat now."
Lu Donglin asked him again, "Have you been to the station to check? Have the goods arrived?"
"I checked, but they haven't arrived yet. It's still early, probably another three or four days."
Lu Donglin sighed, "It's only because there's not much business today. Business is good now. If we get delayed on the road, it'll be really annoying. The time is really unbearable. The shipping cost is expensive and the shipping time is long. It would be great if we had a wholesale market here."
Lu Dongping said, "What are you thinking? If there's a wholesale clothing market here, then everyone can do the clothing business. If the streets are full of clothing stores, how can business be good?"
"That's true." Lu Donglin opened the lid of the lunch box and looked at the rice inside: "Wow, there's meat. Brother, did you cook this?"
Lu Dongping hummed, "Chen Dongshuang cooked the meal. Your sister-in-law bought some vegetables this morning and she packed them up. I went back home and fried it."
"Okay, keep an eye on it. I'm going back now. I have other things to do this afternoon."
He said that installing a telephone was not just talk, and he had to go to the telecommunications bureau several times before he got this done.
By the time this matter was settled, the batch of goods on the way would have arrived.
He transferred the money to the other party, and then called Lu Donglin to go to the cargo yard to unload the goods.
After getting the goods back into the store, I started to get busy again.
The quantity of each style must be clearly compared with the quantity on the invoice.
Sun Xiaoxue and Huang Qiuju were busy picking out the same styles and resizing the clothes in the store. Those with different styles and patterns also had to be ironed and hung out.
While everyone was busy working in an orderly manner, Huang Qiuju called out to Lu Dongping, "Boss, look, the material of this skirt is different from the last batch."
Lu Dongping was stunned for a moment, then stood up. He took a look and saw that the style and color were the same, but the feel was completely different. There was definitely something wrong with the material.
Sun Xiaoxue also said, "The sizes are wrong too. There are more sizes at the ends and fewer in between." When it comes to clothes, the largest and smallest sizes have the smallest audiences, and the sizes in between usually sell out faster, so when restocking, they don't stock too many large and small sizes. However, there are several styles of clothes that have almost no sizes in between.
Lu Donglin was furious: "What does this mean? Are you bullying us because we are so far away? Are you just fooling around like this?"
Lu Dongping sighed deeply and said, "I'll have to work hard today. I'll sort through all the incoming goods and register any problems."
I was careless.
It was his fault that he didn't remind us when we were replenishing the stock, but even if he didn't remind us, it would have been just a matter of quantity. It would have been too much to pass inferior products off as good ones.
Now we need to see how many problems there are in this batch of goods, and then make a phone call after summarizing them.
You have to ask, otherwise the other party will think you are a fool.
But you have to ask politely, without even a hint of emotion. Otherwise, it's not just impossible to cooperate later. Guangzhou is too chaotic right now, and some people there are really too wild.
Fortunately, there are only two models with different fabrics, and there are not many cases where the size is wrong.
Lu Dongping called and was very polite, and the other party was also polite, even offering to send some intermediate sizes. As for the material, the other party explained that it was the same material, just because the fabric factory applied the thicker or thinner sizing.
No matter how uncomfortable Lu Dongping felt, he still hung up the phone politely.
This matter has been weighing on Lu Dongping's mind and has never been resolved.
But what if they didn't disperse? He even impulsively thought that he might as well set up his own workshop to produce and sell the products himself. However, as soon as the thought arose, he forced it down.
He'd already taken a big step, and couldn't rush into anything else. Even if he wanted to go the route of self-production and sales in the future, that was a matter for the future. He needed to get the hang of this business and become familiar with it before taking the next step. For adults, drive alone isn't enough; weighing the pros and cons is more important.
After resolving this matter, life returned to normal.
Lu Dongping started his night school life again.
I also went back to the compound and brought Dandan over.
He had been running around for the past six months, neglecting his wife and children, and had become almost dispensable. Now that he was free from his busy schedule, he naturally had to return to his family and take on the responsibilities of a husband and a father.
Dandan was now hanging out with Wen Shihua in the compound, and for him, his father was really dispensable. She was willing to come with him because she wanted to go to Li Laiyu's place, and because she had to be woken up before dawn every day to go running in the compound, but it was comfortable to come to Tonghua Lane and sleep until she woke up naturally.
But what he didn't expect was that Lu Dongping and his father-in-law completely agreed on letting him exercise, and his wish to sleep until he woke up naturally was still not fulfilled.
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