Chapter 83: Visiting the Department Store
Sun Zeyan was also a little worried: "We don't know what to do with it in our factory. It has been squeezed for so long, it's really a headache! The factory's performance has not been good in the past two years, and the counters can't sell anything. They are all returning goods. No one wants to use them to pay the workers' wages! I guess we'll just pile them up 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. Nylon had high strength, alkali resistance, abrasion resistance, and good resilience. It ranked first among all fibers and was very durable!
However, it has a drawback, which is that it is not soft enough. But this cotton coat should have taken this into consideration, so its lining is made of acrylic, which is commonly known as "artificial wool". It has the characteristics of softness, warmth and strength, smooth surface, tight structure, and is not easy to deform. Even after washing, it shrinks very little.
Such cotton-padded clothes are simply the most popular clothes for ordinary people.
Maybe its positioning is wrong.
City people 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 more to buy nice coats and down jackets produced in the South?
Or a cotton coat with novel and eye-catching styles.
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 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 below tried to sell it at first, hoping to get 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 they can't be sold here, maybe I can sell them on Qilian Island. I won't take many, so let me try ten 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 price? If you really want to sell them, just give me the cost price. Five dollars a piece!"
Five dollars per piece can be said to be very cheap, almost excluding the labor cost, because Song Shiwei did some calculations.
In this era, making a cotton-padded jacket required about three feet of cloth, which cost about two yuan, and you also needed 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 have cloth, you still have to buy cotton, but cotton is not easy to get. Sometimes the public society grows some and distributes it, but how can that be enough cotton for the whole family?
Plus labor, five dollars? I’m afraid you can’t even buy it for seven or eight yuan!
Moreover, such cotton-padded clothes are sold for more than ten yuan each in the city!
Not to mention those nice cotton-padded jackets from the South. The cheapest one costs just a few dozen, while woolen coats and down jackets can even cost hundreds!
It’s really a big deal to be able to buy such a cotton-padded jacket for five dollars. Not to mention five dollars, even six dollars would be a profit! It is basically equivalent to buying cloth and cotton and asking the factory to process and produce them 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?
"Well, 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, take them back and come to me directly!"
Song Shiwei looked at the brand new cotton coats in front of him with full confidence.
"good!"
Finally, Song Shiwei also left Sun Zeyan’s office phone number so that they could contact him if anything happened.
Seeing that it was difficult for them to carry the clothes, Sun Zeyan asked the workers to use some scraps of cloth to sew a bed sheet for her to wrap it up.
Although these cotton-padded clothes were very light, ten of them plus her seven made a very large bag when packed together.
Fortunately, Xiao Zhang was with her. Song Shiwei thought, 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 go to the dock and wait for her with his cotton coat.
She took her two children on a trip to the department store!
The department store in Qing City is not particularly far from the garment factory.
It took about twenty 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 the department store?"
"Yeah, it looks so impressive!"
They, the brothers and sisters, had never left Qilian Island. After all, Zhou Tingyue was in the army all year round and almost never left. Even if he left, it was only 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, she became sick with anger.
From then on, he didn't dare to 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 their parents would not like these children, and what if it caused any psychological harm to the children's young hearts!
So, marrying Song Shiwei was the first time he went home in all these years, and Shen Xiu'e and Zhou Runde could finally put their minds at ease.
In fact, Song Shiwei felt that Zhou Tingyue was mistaking his thoughts. No matter how angry his parents were, it was because they loved 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 would not 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! Are there even picture books?"
"That's right, brother, look, they also sell canned sugar water and soda!"
"And here, there are toys for sale!"
"Wow, there's malted milk and milk powder!"
“This, the candy sold at this counter is so 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 the others and said, "Give me a pound of this candy, too!"
Zhou Cheng and Zhou Lin were extremely surprised when they heard this.
The two of them grinned!
After buying the candies, Song Shiwei saw that there were cakes for sale, so he bought some more. They are called "guozi" locally. They are packed in paper boxes with several kinds of cakes inside. Many people like to buy them as gifts when visiting relatives!
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 behind his ears.
Just then, someone shouted, "The radio has arrived!"
Then everyone in the department store went crazy and rushed to the counter in front!
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