Shen Rui said that he has opened several stores now, and personal communication products and office supplies have been separated. He thinks that if things don't go well in two years, he will have to make some choices
. Recently, he made some investigations and wanted to open a communication product hypermarket.
"Your idea is not bad, but the key is to have a suitable business location. If it is a lease, the contract must be carefully considered to avoid others coming to pick peaches after the business picks up."
Du Shaojie has now recognized Shen Rui's ability. The other party is indeed very talented in business.
A communication product hypermarket is a good idea. It would be best if you can have your own property. If it is a leased property, you must be more careful.
Shen Rui listened to it and nodded repeatedly.
Du Shaojie stayed in Shanghai for a while longer. Anyway, there was not much to do when he went back. The store in Shenzhen had to be slowed down a little bit until the Shanghai store was completed.
"Yongli, prepare the car, I want to go out for a walk."
The private restaurant in Shanghai had already started construction. Du Shaojie didn't have much to do except to go to the site from time to time.
In addition to studying cooking, he would also go around. The Magic City has developed very fast in the past two years, and occasionally going to the streets to take a look can also be rewarding.
"Pull over for a moment, it's quite lively in front, let's go and take a look."
When passing by a department store, Du Shaojie was shocked by the scene in front of him.
The old department store is not tall, only five floors, but there is a small square in front of the building. At this moment, the square is crowded with people, even more lively than the temple fair. Perhaps they are afraid of danger, and there are police there to maintain order.
"Boss, it's better not to join in the fun, right? Look, there are too many people over there, if there is a crowd and trampling, it's no joke."
Wang Yongli has the responsibility to protect Du Shaojie. He looked at the crowds in the small square and couldn't help but dissuade him.
Even if they are strong, they are still useless in the face of the black crowd. The so-called gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, this is the truth.
"It's okay, aren't there police over there maintaining order? I'll just take a look at the periphery and not squeeze in."
Du Shaojie smiled and waved his hand, not taking Wang Yongli's words seriously.
So he walked forward and stopped at the periphery. After asking the people next to him, he found out that it was a clearance sale at the department store, and the prices were incredibly low.
No wonder so many people were crowded here, it turned out that they were rushing for cheap goods.
He immediately lost interest. It seemed that the department store could not continue to operate, so it was clearing out the goods at a bargain price.
"Let's go."
Du Shaojie got in the car, and Wang Yongli and others breathed a sigh of relief.
Afterwards, the group went to the Bund, found a place to drink a cup of coffee, and then returned to the old villa.
Not long after returning, he received a call from Shen Rui.
Shen Rui said that he would invite him to dinner in the evening and wanted to talk to him about something.
"Don't go out to eat. Come to my place with Xiaoya and the children in the evening. I will cook a few dishes for you. If you have anything, wait until you have dinner."
Du Shaojie didn't want to go out to eat. He wanted to cook a few [Huaiyang dishes] today, so he just called Shen Rui and his family to come over.
Shen Rui agreed, and after Xiaoya got off work, the family of three came to the old villa.
Everyone enjoyed the meal very much. After eating and drinking, Xiaoya took the child to go first. The little guy had to do his homework when he returned.
"Brother, I have my eyes on a place. Although it is an old building, the site is large enough and the transportation is convenient. I want to buy that place, but I don't have enough money. I wonder if you are interested?"
Du Shaojie asked someone to brew a pot of good tea and send it over. After Shen Rui took a sip of the tea, he went straight to the point.
Inspired by Du Shaojie, Shen Rui has been looking for a place suitable for opening a large hypermarket. He has a wide network of contacts in the Magic City. After asking around, he really found a good place.
There is an old department store there. It has been hit hard in recent years. It is insolvent and is preparing to sell the property.
As Du Shaojie listened, his expression became more and more strange. He thought, it can't be such a coincidence, right?
"Where exactly is it?"
He couldn't help asking, and Shen Rui immediately told him the specific address.
It was such a coincidence that the department store the other party mentioned was exactly the one Du Shaojie saw when he was shopping today.
Although the location was not in the city center, it was not remote either, and was very suitable for a large hypermarket.
Du Shaojie pondered for a moment and decided to contact the owner of the department store first. If the price was right, it would not be bad to buy it. He was not very interested in opening a large hypermarket, but he did not reject it.
The next day.
Du Shaojie and Shen Rui made an appointment to talk to the owner of the department store.
The owner offered 52 million yuan to sell the entire building.
Du Shaojie thought the price was too high, and after leaving the owner of the department store, he called Xu Bo directly. Xu Bo was not in Shanghai recently, and when he heard about this, he immediately agreed to come back as soon as possible.
Xu Bo has his own network of connections in Shanghai and can help a lot.
Only one day later, Xu Bo flew back to Shanghai.
"Boss Du, Brother Dong and I are very interested in this project. Can we also participate in it?"
"My brother-in-law took the lead in this matter. Wait a minute, I'll call him now and let's talk about it together."
Du Shaojie didn't mind bringing Xu Bo and Pang Weidong in. He knew that with Shen Rui's financial resources alone, there was no way to buy the entire building.
Anyway, Pang Weidong and Xu Bo had too much money to invest, so investing in real estate was not a bad idea.
Then.
The three met at Xu Bo's hotel, discussed for a long time, and finally reached an agreement.
As the initiator, Shen Rui retained 40% of the shares, Du Shaojie's shares accounted for 30%, and Pang Weidong and Xu Bo's shares accounted for 30% in total.
After the internal affairs were finalized, they went to find the property owner of the department store again.
This time, everyone used their connections in advance, and the other party seemed much more sincere. After bargaining, the other party finally agreed to sell the entire building for 46 million yuan.
There are still some details to come, and both parties will send people to talk it out.
Du Shaojie and others immediately registered a company and completed all the formalities in a few days.
A week later.
The two parties signed a real estate sales contract, and the old department store changed hands and became a common asset of Du Shaojie, Shen Rui, Pang Weidong and Xu Bo.
Shen Rui did not have so much money, and it was Du Shaojie who helped him borrow part of the money from the bank to get through the difficulties.
The next step was decoration. Shen Rui was responsible for these things, and other people did not have to do it themselves.
To put it bluntly, a hypermarket is similar to a vegetable market. The hypermarket provides the venue, and large and small companies and individuals enter the venue to do business and pay rent.
The hypermarket also needs to provide a series of services, including settlement services, after-sales services, and even mobilize part of the supply to supply small and medium-sized merchants at wholesale prices.
A powerful hypermarket can negotiate conditions with the manufacturer. In short, the water is deep.
However, Du Shaojie is the actual controller of [Huanyu Communications], and organizing the supply of goods is simple. In the end, it is all for the purpose of selling the goods and making the pie bigger together, and the rest is the issue of profit distribution.
Shen Rui didn't have to worry about it. He directly cut off the communication products part of his own business and specialized in office equipment, office supplies and consumables.
When the [Deep in the White Clouds] private restaurant was built, the overall renovated hypermarket was also successfully opened.
The previous investment promotion work went smoothly, and the occupancy rate reached more than 90%.
Du Shaojie felt that this business was quite good. The rent collection could ensure sufficient cash flow. When the hypermarket was no longer a big store, the price of this building would definitely rise sharply, and there would be no loss.
After the private restaurant in the Magic City opened, Du Shaojie stayed for another month. He saw that the business situation had fully achieved the expected results, so he returned to Guangzhou with Wang Yongli and others.
After a while, another [Deep in the White Clouds] private restaurant was opened in Shenzhen, and the project came to an end.
[Deep in the White Clouds] will maintain the scale of four stores in China in the future. After all, the investment is too large, and the consumption level is also ridiculously high.
The operation of the Guangzhou and Beijing stores is gradually getting better. According to comparative analysis, the revenue of a private restaurant is roughly equivalent to that of 40 ordinary stores, and the profit is far more.
After Du Shaojie returned to Guangzhou, he often went to the private restaurant to show off his skills.
There was no way. He was too famous in many circles. Many well-known guests were proud to eat the dishes he made.
As a result, whether or not to ask Mr. Du to do it himself became one of the symbols of status.
Du Shaojie didn't want to offend people, so he naturally couldn't favor one over the other. So he just waited in line according to the old rules. It took him a long time to prepare banquets, and he could only prepare three tables a day. He was too lazy to prepare more.
However, he would occasionally prepare one or two dishes in the restaurant. These one or two dishes would be prepared in about five or six portions and given to the customers who consumed the most on that day.
Speaking of which, he was very diligent during this period, but strangely, his cooking skills seemed to be stuck on the ceiling and he couldn't go any further.
Du Shaojie didn't care. After a while, he took advantage of the summer vacation to take Qi Yan and his daughter to Europe.
At present, the gap between China and some developed countries in Europe is still quite large, and people often have beautiful imaginations about going abroad.
But Qi Yan discovered a very realistic problem soon after arriving there. She couldn't get used to Western food. If she went to a local Chinese restaurant, well, it was often better to eat Western food.
Du Shaojie didn't have too high requirements for food. He was the kind of person who could eat coarse grains after being used to fine grains.
Anyway, it was a trip and he would be back in a few days, so he just had to overcome the unfamiliarity with the food.
"Yanzi, I think if you develop it for a few more years, you can even open a training school abroad."
"What are you doing? Teach foreigners to cook [Sichuan cuisine]?"
"What [Sichuan cuisine] to teach? No! By then, of course, I will teach them to speak Chinese. Maybe the business will be very hot."
The family of three ate a French meal and chatted while eating. (End of this chapter)
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