Chapter 417 The store is open
On the fifth day of the New Year, Xia Juanjuan got up very early. Lin Yuru and Xia Shuangshan couldn't sleep either, so they woke up very early.
The halogens were prepared the night before, and included beef, beef tongue, beef offal, pig's trotters, pig's ears, pig's head and face, chicken feet, chicken gizzards, chicken racks, and a whole halogenated duck. Vegetarian dishes included halogenated bean curd skin, dried tofu, kelp shreds, bean curd sticks, winter bamboo shoots, and other varieties.
All this happened at around four or five in the morning. Xia Shuangshan had already ridden a cart and delivered two large pots of salty food to the store.
The name of the shop was also simple, it was called Xia's Halal. Xia Juanjuan had someone write the name of the shop in advance, and then asked a carpenter to do it, and it was hung up on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.
In addition to the store name sign, there is also a large wooden board with the types and prices of halal prepared daily written on it.
This way, you can avoid the trouble of bargaining. Besides, this is a new store, and many people will be hesitant to come forward and buy if they don’t know the prices. If the prices are clearly marked, people won’t be afraid of the embarrassment of coming over and asking and then not buying because they think the products are too expensive.
Xia Juanjuan's idea was to open the store in the second half of the day so that Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru would have a way to make a living and would be able to handle it physically.
However, today is the first day of business, so we must start in the morning.
Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru were both wearing new clothes and their hair was neatly combed.
Li Zhan set off firecrackers and put a sign at the door of the store with festive red paper that read "Big Opening Bonus" and a line of small words below it: Buy any salty food and get a free salted tofu.
The price of salty dishes is not expensive, the meat ones are 1.3 yuan per pound, and the vegetarian ones are 50 cents per pound. In fact, it is just hard-earned money.
However, the raw materials were all taken out by Xia Juanjuan from the space. She lied that she had made an agreement with the slaughterhouse in the suburbs, and the price was cheaper for the parts with dirty parts.
Ingredients such as dried tofu are all homemade, and it takes a lot of effort.
As the firecrackers rang, everyone's attention was drawn to it. Then, when they saw that it was a small shop, everyone became even more curious.
Over the past decade or so, people have had to go to state-owned food stores to buy salty food.
The food in the state-owned food store tastes pretty good, but the prices are 1.5 yuan per pound for meat and 70 cents per pound for vegetarian food, which are both more expensive than this store. What's more, the salespersons are arrogant and can't help but say something unpleasant when they see people buying small amounts.
Now seeing such a small shop, I couldn't help but go up and ask if it was a private shop.
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Yes! Isn't the country encouraging self-employment now? These are all made by my family, and the ingredients are all the freshest. Big sister, try this beef tongue, it tastes delicious!"
As Xia Juanjuan spoke, she took out a plate with beef tongue cut into small pieces, each piece having a small bamboo stick inserted into it.
This kind of food tasting is still common later, but in that era, every penny was spent very carefully and food was in short supply, let alone offering free food tasting!
The elder sister who asked the question just now was a little hesitant.
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Big sister, don't worry, this is a tasting, it's free!"
After hearing this, the eldest sister looked at Xia Juanjuan with a little disbelief, but she still took a piece and tasted it.
The taste was really good, very flavorful and not too salty. My elder sister couldn't help but nod her head.
Xia Juanjuan said to the other onlookers: "Everyone can try it, it doesn't matter if you don't buy it!"
After hearing this, everyone rushed over and took a piece to taste it.
Many people took the food but did not buy it, but there were also quite a few who thought it tasted good, was cheaper than the state-owned stores, and came with free dried tofu, so they went to buy it.
Although the price is by kilogram, people definitely buy it in small quantities of two or three taels.
Lin Yuru and Xia Shuangshan were in the store, with Xiaowen helping them.
Xia Shuangshan was responsible for cutting the meat and packing it into everyone's lunch boxes, while Xiaowen helped Lin Yuru collect money and do the accounting.
For those who didn't bring lunch boxes, Xia Shuangshan lent them bowls from the store so they could take them home.
After a while, more than ten people came and bought three or five taels of rice and left.
Xia Juanjuan watched from the side and felt that it was worthy of being called Beijing City.
If this happened in another small county, even if you opened a store, I'm afraid no one would dare to come in and buy.
Why? Although the service attitude of state-owned stores is a bit disappointing, at least they are fair and will not cheat you.
It’s a privately owned shop, so who knows if they might be shortchanging you on weight?
Moreover, even if the policy has been issued, it still takes a long time for it to be transmitted to the lower levels. If you dare to open a store brazenly, someone may report it to the relevant department right after you open it, and then bring people to trouble you.
So, the fact that the store in Beijing was so popular on the first day of opening shows that people's acceptance of the policy is completely different from that in other remote places.
Xia Juanjuan felt more confident.
When she was setting up a street stall before, she actually felt that people would not mind her being private. Moreover, she had done it many times and no one came to complain about her disturbing the order. So after opening the store, she should not encounter any troubles.
Looking at the situation of the salty food store now, the clothing store should not have any major problems.
Seeing that there were already four or five people lining up at the newly opened halogen shop, Xia Juanjuan and Li Zhan quietly left and went to the clothing store.
At the clothing store, Qi Ningyu was waiting.
Originally, it was agreed with Qi Jia'an that Qi Ningyu would go to the brine shop to help, but Xia Juanjuan asked Qi Ningyu what he thought.
After Qi Ningyu followed Xia Juanjuan to sell clothes for a few times, he became more interested in clothing stores.
Therefore, Xia Juanjuan asked her to come to the clothing store to help.
When she was setting up a stall before, Qi Ningyu was given a commission based on how much she sold. She still gets a commission now, but it is much lower than when she was setting up a stall before.
After all, Qi Ningyu had to take some risks when setting up the stall before, and it was also quite tiring in the wind and sun.
Now, in the store she bought, many customers come to the store for the store and the clothes. Compared with the time when she set up a stall, people do not play such a big role, which is why Xia Juanjuan reduced the commission.
However, in addition to the commission, there is also a salary of 40 yuan a month, which is higher than the salary of senior workers in the factory.
Add to that the commission for each item sold, and it’s a guaranteed high income.
Qi Ningyu had nothing to say, so he happily came to work.
Seeing Xia Juanjuan coming over, Qi Ningyu hurried over to greet her: "Sister Juanjuan, Brother Lizhan, you are here. Shall we set off firecrackers now?"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Let it go!"
Just like the salty shop, there is also a promotion here, 20% off if you buy two.
The firecrackers popped.
This is on Wangfujing Street, and there are quite a lot of people. When they heard the sound of firecrackers, many people gathered around.
Xia Juanjuan and Qi Ningyu enthusiastically invited everyone into the store to have a look.
When renovating the store, she replaced all the doors with glass doors and knocked down a wall to install glass, so the interior of the store can be seen from the outside.
The main clothes are hung facing the window so that people can see them from the outside.
Xia Juanjuan regretted that there were no plastic mannequins with clothes hangers yet. Otherwise, she could put clothes on a few of them and put them in the window, which would be more attractive.
The clothes in the store have been put out. They are all sweaters and jeans that Xia Juanjuan brought back from Guangzhou. In addition, there are more than twenty coats.
There were no warm cotton coats in Guangzhou, but thick woolen coats were good. The purchase price of one was twelve yuan, so she brought twenty pieces and set the selling price at eighteen yuan.
In addition, there are four or five cotton-padded jackets filled with down and cotton, which are not handmade, with a good sense of design, a waist-pinching design, and a hood. The fabric is also similar to waterproof and windproof, not the usual cotton and linen.
These pieces were actually designed and made by Xia Juanjuan herself.
There are no factories in Guangzhou that produce thick cotton-padded clothes, but they are indispensable in winter.
She drew two designs, provided fabric, cotton and down, and asked Manager Li to find a factory to make a few sets.
Even with this kind of private help, the efficiency is relatively low. In more than 20 days, only five or six sets were made. Although the materials were all Xia Juanjuan's, the processing fee alone cost eight yuan for one piece!
These pieces of cotton jackets, which are a mix of down and cotton, were priced at twenty-five yuan by Xia Juanjuan.
However, the discount is only for two items, and all items will be discounted without exception, so after the discount, it will only be 20 yuan per item.
At first, the onlookers were too embarrassed to come in, so they looked at the door curiously. Fu Nanzheng took Yue Sizhu in first. Yue Sizhu picked out a loose sweater and a coat, went to the fitting room to change into them, came out and looked at herself in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling mirror, and smiled, "This dress is pretty good."
However, Yue Sizhu was actually a "traveller". Xia Juanjuan had already given her a loose sweater, so there was no need to buy her another one now.
After my belly became apparent, the clothes I bought now can no longer fit me.
With Yue Sizhu going in first, everyone else followed in. They saw that the shop was bright and clean with large mirrors everywhere. The most valuable thing was that there was even a fitting room!
"Boss, do you have a fitting room here? Do you mean I can try them on?"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Of course. You can't tell whether the clothes look good or not by just hanging them up. You have to try them on!"
"What if it doesn't fit after we try it on? You won't force us to buy it, right?"
State-owned department stores don’t allow you to try on clothes easily. Sometimes if you accidentally open the packaging and try it on yourself, you will be forced to buy it!
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "How could that be? The try-on is free. If you feel it doesn't fit, just put it down. You don't have to buy it!"
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but pick a few pieces to try on.
Soon someone paid for it.
The Chinese New Year had just passed, and everyone still had some money in their hands, so we sold more than ten orders in just this morning.
The most expensive cotton coats are actually the most popular.
Basically, I just try on everything I like and buy it in the end.
The garment was ankle-length and looked bulging and thick, but when they took it off and touched it, it was soft and light, much lighter than a normal cotton coat!
Moreover, although it is light, the warmth you feel when you put it on forms a sharp contrast with the cotton-padded jacket you are wearing!
More importantly, the price is 25 yuan, but with a 20% discount, it can be saved by 5 yuan! And there are only five pieces, so they will be gone once they are sold out!
If you don’t buy it, there are several people behind you who are eagerly waiting to buy it!
Therefore, the person who got the clothes gritted his teeth and paid for it!
Xia Juanjuan never expected that all the cotton-padded clothes she designed and made would be sold out in a short time!
The cost of these five pieces of clothing is actually only the eight dollars of processing fee! The fabric and cotton down are all in the space!
Several customers who didn't get their hands on the jacket came over and asked, "Boss, are you out of stock of this jacket? When can you get it back?"
Xia Juanjuan thought for a moment and said with a smile, "The manufacturer is also out of stock. I'll ask if they have any left. However, it may take more than half a month."
After hearing this, the customer couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
However, Beijing will still be cold in half a month, so it's not a bad idea to wait.
So, I asked, "Boss, next time you come, I will definitely buy some, and you must leave one for me!"
Xia Juanjuan agreed with a smile.
After staying in the store for most of the day, Xia Juanjuan handed the store to Qi Ningyu, and she and Li Zhan went back to the halal shop to take a look.
In order to show his support to his daughter, Fu Weixin asked Aunt Chen to come over to buy salty food, but Aunt Chen and Lin Yuru were declining because of the money issue.
"Sister Chen, we can't accept this money! Juanjuan's father and grandfather eat salty food, and if we charge them, what will happen?"
Xia Juanjuan came over and saw it, and also laughed and said, "Aunt Chen, put the money away quickly. How can you pay for food at home? Don't be afraid that my dad will scold you. Wait until I go back and tell Dad and Grandpa."
After hearing this, Aunt Chen looked at Xia Juanjuan in embarrassment, and finally had to put it away. She smiled and said, "Okay then. I'll keep it then."
By the afternoon, the halogens were almost sold out.
On the first day of opening, we didn’t prepare much, mainly to avoid selling overnight goods, and also to prevent Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru from being too tired.
However, although the quantity is not large, there are many categories prepared. The main purpose is to see which categories can sell faster, so that there will be a focus later.
At the end of the day, I actually made fifteen dollars!
Lin Yuru couldn't believe her eyes.
"Juan'er, this... is this really the money your father and I earned? If we can earn fifteen yuan a day, then we can earn hundreds of yuan a month, right?"
Xia Shuangshan said, "If you don't know how to count, then don't count. Didn't Juaner buy this shop for free? And the salt, pig's trotters, pig's ears, beef offal, and various ingredients like bean curd and dried tofu, which one of them is free? After deducting all these, we can only make a profit!"