Chapter 83: Shopping in a Department Store
Sun Zeyan was also a little worried: "We don't know what to do with it in our factory. It has been crowded for so long, it's really a headache! The factory has not been profitable in the past two years, and the counters can't sell out. They are all returning goods. No one wants them even if they are used to pay the workers' wages! I guess we'll just pile them here for now!"
Especially with the recent rumors, it is very likely that even the factory will go bankrupt!
Song Shiwei listened and nodded in understanding. Although these cotton-padded jackets were not made of the best fabrics, they were made of economical and durable nylon blended fabrics. Polyester has high strength, alkali resistance, wear resistance, and good resilience. It ranks first among all fibers and is very durable!
However, it has a drawback, which is that it is not soft enough. However, this cotton coat should have taken this into consideration, so its lining is made of acrylic. Acrylic, commonly known as "artificial wool", has the characteristics of softness, warmth and strength. It has a smooth surface, compact structure, and is not easy to deform. Even after washing, it shrinks very little.
Such cotton-padded clothes are simply the most favorite clothes of ordinary people.
Maybe its positioning is wrong.
City dwellers generally have jobs and like to buy decent and good-looking clothes. Naturally, no one likes cotton-padded jackets that only focus on durability and warmth but not appearance.
With that money, why not spend some more on nice coats and down jackets made in the south?
Or a cotton coat with a novel and eye-catching style.
Therefore, such cotton-padded clothes naturally cannot be sold!
But if this thing could be taken to Qilian Island and sold to the villagers at a low price, Song Shiwei felt that it would still be very marketable!
At least it’s better than rotting in the warehouse!
After thinking for a while, she said, "Director Sun, if I take it to try to sell it, what price can you give me?"
Sun Zeyan, who was worried, thought he had misheard.
"What did you say?"
Song Shiwei smiled and repeated, "I said, I want to try some and see if I can sell them. What price can you give me?"
Sun Zeyan was really shocked, but when he came to his senses, he felt a little disappointed.
"I can't hurt you. This cotton coat is really hard to sell. The workers downstairs just started to sell it, hoping to exchange it for some money, but they couldn't sell it at all! Forget it, forget it, you'd better not take it, it's just a waste of effort!"
Song Shiwei shook his head and smiled: "Director Sun, if I can't sell them here, maybe I can sell them on Qilian Island? I won't take too much, so let me take ten pieces first, what do you think? Of course, the price..."
Sun Zeyan looked at the pile of cotton-padded clothes in front of him and sighed, "What's the point of talking about price? If you really want to sell them, just give me the cost price. Five yuan a piece!"
Five yuan per piece can be said to be very cheap, almost excluding the labor cost, because Song Shiwei did the math.
In this era, making a cotton-padded jacket requires about three feet of cloth, which costs about two yuan, and you also need cloth coupons.
Even if you have money and cloth coupons, you may not be able to buy them at the supply and marketing cooperative.
Even if you had cloth, you still had to buy cotton, but cotton was not easy to get. Sometimes the commune would grow some and distribute it, but how could there be enough cotton for the whole family?
Add the labor cost, five dollars? I'm afraid it won't even cost seven or eight dollars!
Moreover, such cotton-padded clothes are sold for more than ten yuan each in the city!
Not to mention those nice cotton-padded clothes from the South. The cheapest one is only a few dozen, while woolen coats and down jackets can even cost hundreds!
It's really a good deal to buy such a cotton coat for five dollars. Not to mention five dollars, six dollars is also a good deal! It's basically equivalent to buying fabric and cotton and letting the factory process and make it for free!
Sun Zeyan had no other choice. It would be better to exchange it for some capital than to let it rot in the warehouse, right?
"How about this? If you can sell one, I'll give you 50 cents! What do you think?"
Song Shiwei was suddenly very happy.
"Okay! Then I'll try ten first!"
Sun Zeyan nodded: "Okay, I'll ask the warehouse manager to write a list for you. If you've sold out, or...if you can't sell them, just come to me and take them back!"
Song Shiwei looked at the brand new cotton-padded clothes in front of him with full confidence.
"good!"
Finally, Song Shiwei also left Sun Zeyan's office phone number so that he could contact him if anything happened.
Seeing that it was difficult for them to carry the bed, Sun Zeyan asked the workers to use some scraps of cloth to sew a bed sheet for her to wrap.
Although these cotton-padded clothes were very light, ten of them plus her seven made a very large package.
Fortunately, Xiao Zhang was with her. Song Shiwei thought that if she had done it by herself, she might not have been able to lift it!
After leaving the factory, because she was thinking about bringing back cotton gloves for Sister Mei, she asked Xiao Zhang to take his cotton coat and wait for her at the dock.
She took her two kids to the department store!
The department stores in Qing City are not particularly far from the clothing factories.
It took about 20 minutes to walk there.
Zhou Cheng and Zhou Lin looked up at the two-story building in front of them, extremely excited.
"Wow! So this is a department store?"
"Yeah, it looks so impressive!"
They, the brothers and sisters, have never left Qilian Island. After all, Zhou Tingyue has been in the army all year round and has almost never left. Even if he left, it was on a mission, and he couldn't take the children with him!
He hardly ever took a leave to visit his family during the Chinese New Year.
Because he adopted these children and divorced, Shen Xiu'e became so angry that she fell ill.
From then on, he didn't dare go home, let alone take the children back with him. One reason was that he was afraid that Shen Xiu'e would get angry and something bad would happen. Another reason was that he was afraid that his parents would not like these children, which might cause psychological harm to the children's young minds!
So, marrying Song Shiwei was his first time home after so many years, and Shen Xiu'e and Zhou Runde could finally put their minds at ease.
In fact, Song Shiwei felt that Zhou Tingyue had misunderstood. No matter how angry his parents were, it was because they felt sorry for him!
She wasn't really angry with him, and based on her understanding of the old couple, they were not the kind of people who would take their anger out on their children and treat them harshly!
So, this year during the Chinese New Year, Song Shiwei was thinking about taking the children back to Beijing to celebrate the New Year!
Leading the children into the department store, Zhou Cheng and Zhou Lin were just like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden, everything they saw was new and interesting!
Look at this for a while, look at that for a while!
"Mom, this is really great. There are so many good things for sale! There are also picture books?"
"That's right, brother, look, there are also canned sugar water and soda for sale there!"
"Also here, there are toys for sale here!"
"Wow, there's maltose and milk powder!"
"This candy sold at this counter is really pretty!"
Song Shiwei saw the two children looking at the candy counter, unable to move, and said to the salesperson inside with a smile: "I want a pound of White Rabbit milk candy!"
After that, he pointed at the various packages of colorful fruit candies in front of Zhou Cheng and his partner and said, "Give me a pound of this kind of candy, too!"
Zhou Cheng and Zhou Lin were overjoyed when they heard this.
The two of them grinned!
After buying the candies, Song Shiwei saw someone selling cakes and bought some more. They are called "guozi" here. They are packed in paper boxes with several kinds of cakes inside. Many people like to buy them as gifts to relatives and friends!
She thought that the children didn't have much snacks to eat on weekdays, so she bought another box of fruit.
Zhou Lin was so happy that his mouth almost stretched to his ears.
Just then, someone shouted, "The radio is here!"
Then everyone in the department store went crazy and rushed to the counter in front like crazy!